http://www.whatupduck.com Livin' country in the city. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:49:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally, the snow is all melted and the temps are rising! The ducks are getting back in the water again, but into the small water tub I have for them and NOT their wading pool.  Don't you think this would make for some nasty drinking water?  Why don't they care??  Pretty ... http://www.whatupduck.com/spring-is-springing/ More snow last weekend.  This means the ducks still aren't laying eggs.  Seems to me they have their days and nights mixed up.  They stay under the deck all day when it's bright and beautiful.  When it gets dark or starts to snow, they go to the middle of the ... http://www.whatupduck.com/more-snow/ I am a thrifty kinda girl!  So much so that I can't even bring myself to throw away scraps like this.... leftover from the multiple string quilts I've been working on.  Really now, what can be done with pieces so darn small? I've got a new quilt, thanks to ideas from a ... http://www.whatupduck.com/small-fabric-scrapsmini-baby-quilt-ticker-tape-ducks/ If you don't freecycle, then I'm gonna show you how! First, go to www.freecycle.org  and look for your city.  FREECYCLE is a nonprofit group of people (you and me) who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.  The whole purpose is to reuse and keep stuff out ... http://www.whatupduck.com/do-you-freecycle/ 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 ... http://www.whatupduck.com/snow-eggs/ 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 ... http://www.whatupduck.com/quilt-knitting-duck-addiction/ 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 ... http://www.whatupduck.com/ducks-in-snow/ I received the nicest email today from my friend, Tim Byrd (of course), who this fall "adopted" my original three ducks.  Sounds like Sonny, Cher and Ringo are doing well in his wonderful pond and as the picture shows, are still sticking together. http://www.whatupduck.com/duck-update/ This last month the falling leaves in the backyard have created a real game in my life.  It really is an egg hunt now! When the leaves are really deep I have to follow the swishing sounds of the ducks running across the yard just to find them.  But the eggs, ... http://www.whatupduck.com/the-most-eggs-i-ever-saw/ I was combing the farmers market a few weeks ago and spied some of the most beautiful pumpkins. One of the vendors commented on how much her husband loved a pie made out of these particular blue pumpkins, Jarrahadale (I just call them BLUE pumpkins :-).  So I bought a ... http://www.whatupduck.com/fresh-pumpkin-pie-canned-pumpkin-recipe/