Seeing that this is my first winter with ducks, I have determined that snow eggs may be  harder to find than even hidden eggs.  Really now, can you see an egg in this mess of white?

Luckily, or not, the girls quit laying eggs after our last crazy snowstorm.   This was the last egg and we haven’t seen one since.  I guess I can understand their confusion and frustration.  No grass, no worms, no mud, no large masses of water.  What IS there to do around here?

They hunker down in snow drifts.

Use one trail to go back and forth down the yard which looks to me something like a cha-cha.

Peek through the kitchen door to see what leftovers might be coming their way.

Continously poop all over my deck!  I try to chase them off, but they don’t seem too scared.

And then they give me this look and cock their neck, “Who, ME?”

Right now my obsession really has nothing to do with ducks, except that I do worry about them a little too much. They spend most days sitting in snow drifts and tonight we’ll see how they do in the minus temps. So far they don’t seem to be fazed by any of our nasty midwest storms, except that I can’t find any eggs.

THIS has become my indoor addiction…

I found it on a fabulous quilter’s website, Film In The Fridge .  I dreamed about it so much that I HAD to make it!   I’m hoping to make it king sized if I can stick with it long enough.  Of course, Kacey makes sure all blankets in the house are up to code (her code….COMFY!).

But then I decided I needed something to work on while I watched TV, so I struggled for a day and knitted my first sock!

“WOW!” you say?  Yep, I’m pretty proud of this one only because it was my first attempt.  Let’s just say after hours of youtube instruction and another hour on the phone with my superb knitter friend, Lauren, I finished sometime around midnight.  Mind you I started at 8 in the morning with very few breaks! 

Hubby says the per hour cost of my single sock may not be cost effective. 

What? I have to duplicate it!!??  AHHHHHHH!!!

And that means the holidays are over and we can move on to new things! I get a little Scroogey this time of year, maybe because I’ve worked in retail for so long and that puts a whole different spin on Christmas. Speaking of Christmas, boy did we get a doozey of a snowstorm! 

I was concerned and curious to where the girls might be during this 10 inch dump of snow.  Through the wind, the snow, the ice….they were out in the middle of the yard! 

Yes, they have a house, heat, water, grain, straw, all the comforts of a duck home, and yet they choose to sit right out in the middle of everything……

Then I thought, maybe they just can’t get to their home, so I made a path from the patio all the way down to their house, thinking this might make them stay inside that cozy little house of theirs.

No matter what I do, they really like staying up by MY house and pooping on MY patio and yesterday I saw them in short flight to get up on the deck!  Then they sunned themselves there all day and at least I ended up with frozen duck poop all over the place.

This is what I learned this week, once again, not to worry too much about duck housing.  They are just as happy under a patio table or under a deck or sitting smack dab in the middle of the yard.  And temperatures, you ask?  Well, we’ve had some 1 degree evenings that don’t seem to phase them a bit! 

Now, snow eggs?  That’s a post for next time.