I’ll stop…I promise!

Right after this post :)  Not too many comments on my last post (for those that did, Thanks :) so I’m guessing you are tiring of my incessant posting about the ducks. lol  It’s just been so cold and windy and today it’s raining again, so my creativity is being smooshed a little…by this…

Timmy is still doing good.  I’m actually going to head to the farm store later to grab a bag of food for him.  He’s living on bread, but if he’s going to grow up to be a proper duck, he’s going to need a little ‘more’.  I hadn’t thought about it, but I realized today that he spent his first 2 days on water, and he hasn’t been on any for a few days now.  So, seeing as my sink was dirty anyhow and in desperate need of a scrubbing, I filled it with a little water and put him in.  He was a bit frightened at first- he’s still getting used to us.  It takes him a little while to relax.  But soon enough, he was dipping and rolling…

I did kind of bad with the pictures…sorry.  It was really cute.  Mama never returned, although the male landed on the pond for just a little while yesterday.  He seemed to be calling for her- looking for her to be there.  I’m sure he will find her again, eventually.  I’m starting to feel a little bad that Timmy is spending the majority of his life in a cardboard box, and every time we go to pick him up he freaks out.  I need to find him some better accommodations.  He needs to be able to ‘see’ us throughout the day and evening and not only when we are holding him.  I called my neighbor (who has a ‘magic shed’- you can find almost anything in there :) and she said she thinks she might have a few cages for me to choose from.  I have a big dog kennel, but that will be better for later on.  For now, I think I need a bird cage- which she thinks she might have in the ‘magic shed’.  I considered putting him in with my cockatiel for a few minutes of  socializing, but J.D. was not going to have anything to do with him.  He was hissing at him when I took Timmy over by his cage. 

And as for the name Timmy… I only had one guess in the comments, and she guessed it was because of Tiny Tim.  He is rather tiny, but no.  I thought it would be kind of funny to call him Timmy because of something I do with our beagle, Sadie.  She  is a very vocal dog.  If she wants something, she will bark in your face (okay, she’s really short so it’s not directly in your face, but it feels like it lol)….and she will continue to bark until you do it for her.  For instance, if she wants to go out, she will whine a little, do a little dance, and once you look at her she will start to bark.…and when you get up to go let her out, she will continue to bark alllllll the way to the door.  It’s annoying.  lol  When she whines and does the little dance, you know it’s coming as soon as you look at her.  And God forbid you talk to her…it’s 10 times worse and much louder!  So sometimes when I am playing around with her, I will just start talking to make her bark-like we are having a conversation.  Then one day, it popped into my head…’What’s that Sadie?  (BARK! BARK!) You say Timmy fell down the well?  (BARK! BARK!BARK!)  He did? (BARK!)  We better go save him! (BARK! BARK! BARK! BARK! etc.  lol)  -A popular scene from Lassie.  So when the boys rescued this duck from the well, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to call him Timmy :) 

He watched Biggest Loser with me last night and found his favorite place to snuggle was up on my shoulder, under my hair.  So cute.  Can I say that enough?  I probably have!

Today looks like another cloudy day with more possible showers, but the weather man seems to be promising the temps are going to stay warmer.  I hate to complain about the rainy cold weather here, when families are losing their homes and some losing their lives with the horrible tornados that have been hitting the midwest.  So I will be thankful for the rain and the cooler temperatures, for now, and take it as an opportunity to get some things finished in the house.  I have a few makeovers I need to get working on and the house needs cleaned (always), so I’m hoping to be able to get something better on here soon for you all to see!