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.