Three weeks of term left...

It's been one of those weekends. One of those weekends where you get everything done on your to do list, plus a bit more! I love those weekends :-) We are now one duck down. Our wee paradise duck is now living with two other ducklings with Janet at bird rescue - he or she is much happier with some company, and the other ducklings I had, were just plain mean and nasty to it. The swimming lessons are continuing and each year Darcy 'helps' with this lol. I probably shouldn't have the ducks getting used to dogs as they will self release back to the wild, but it's darn good for the dogs to know not to touch the ducks. Dan and Darcy have been brought up with them, and so are good. Archies is just plain scared of them LOL.

I've got Project Life for next year done and dusted so am back scrapbooking the traditional way. Scrappin Patch have a throw a layout together competition in celebration of Adrienne's husbands birthday. He put together the recipe for the layout. One of the more unusual things was a dart shape. Not the easiest of things I tell you. Still it got me back scrapping and it's more photos scrapped and more story told.

Cute work story....We had walked to our local school to watch their choir and kapahaka group perform (and they were both excellent), the wee girl sitting next to me said, "hey look, she's got the same hair as me!" as she pointed to one of the older girls with bright red hair. I guess she hasn't seen a lot of red heads around. Have a great week.

A couple of weeks ago, friends turned up on our doorstep with two wee ducklings. Mother duck and her babes had wandered into their backyard. They have dogs, big dogs, soon Mother duck was down one baby and the noise alerted our friends to the fact something was up in their backyard. The dogs had killed one duckling, Mumma duck had taken off with who knows how many ducklings, and our friends managed to rescue two ducklings which they brought around to our house. So my usual Spring occupation of duckling care starts again.

A few days after the first lot of ducklings arrived, I was out walking the dogs and as I looked down I saw a wee bird with it's beak wide open looking back up. I checked around for Mum and Dad and any others - found one dead bird, but no sign of parents, so this wee one came home with me as well. I had to sit it in the glove box to drive home - three dogs and one baby bird aren't the ideal mix lol.

Growing fast isn't she? My neighbour was over visiting and noticed the feathered new comers...then that afternoon presented me with anothre duckling. Her Grandkids had accidently scared away Mum and siblings when playing in a boat down at a local river. Lyall and I headed back there to see if we could find Mum, but to no avail. We tried again the next day, but still no luck.

So this lot have been living in my lounge and for the first week they were all coming to work with me. Now just the wee finch comes to work as she still needs to be fed every two hours - the kids are just amazed at how she eats. So my apologies on many of your blogs, I am reading them, but sometimes commenting and sometimes not - because these feathered friends take up a bit of time, still it won't be long and they will all have grown and be looking after themselves. Other news, I'll try comment moderation - it will remove the need to do word verification, and I'll see how that goes. Have a great week everyone.

As you know, my friend Annie came and stayed this week. It was a quick visit, she arrived at five thrity Sunday night, and left at five thirty Monday night. However, you can fit a fair bit into that time!

We went for a drive out to Sumner, then headed into town. As you can see from the photos we had a stunning day weather wise. It was great to see the amount of tourists in town. Interesting to chat to an Aussie couple who haven't visited since the earthquakes and were trying to get their bearings from the buildings etc that they previously remembered. I wasn't the best person to talk to, as most of them aren't in my memory bank either lol.

When you look around town, you are met by cranes, diggers etc all busy at work. You also feel like your the odd one out as every second person is wearing a high visibility vest.

To end the day, we headed to the dog park (yep, she has dogs as well - and chooks, cows, sheep, goats and a few other assorted birds).

Thanks to everyone who leaves comments on my blog, I really do appreciate it. I never used to have th word verification thing on here, but with a bit of spam being received I added it in. Is it a pain? I could do comment moderation if that was less of a pain for you? Tell me what your preferance is and I'll go with the majority. Have a great week.