igloo

I forgot to add pictures of Stewarts igloo yesterday so here they are. Danny could stand up in it but not Stewart as hes about 6'4". Ha!

So much snow

Oh we miss our little grand boys already. They love to play badmintin and are pretty good players and take turns nicely while Baba throws the birdie!!

Derek loves the snow and would spend the entire day outside. ;)

Lots and lots of snow and its still here. Today we have somemore black clouds coming so we may have another dump. I know this is naughty and we are suppose to dream of white Christmas but I'm kinda tired of it already. Ha!!

more snow

Derek loves being out in the snow!!

This is so sweet. Boys are checking on their snowman and watching the birds eat sunflower seeds in the morning. :)

Happyness is a sunny snow covered day!!

Derek is busy making a path around the yard with the snow shovel. Dad and Caleb are testing it out.

Caleb loves hats!! (Except for when he is outside;). This is a toilet paper hat or I suppose it's a cozy crocheted for a the spare toilet paper roll.

Snow

Wow!! It's snowing buckets today. In the morning it was so beautiful, Derek and Baba & Nan went out for a walk down the road and Angie raced around in circles. Derek is making a snow angel here and he had to shut his eyes because he says the snow was getting in them.

Caleb was brave enough to go for a ride on the whateveritis. We don't have a hill so Nan had to help out :) It was lots of fun until Angie decided to go for a ride on Calebs lap while eating the mat. Ahhheeee!

Caleb is sitting on a bush in our front garden. He looks so pleased with himself. ;)

Here is our snow man. Derek rolled the bottom ball all on his own. His ball was very big, it came up to his shoulder almost. Baba helped with the rest.

Here is Derek and his snow ball half way through the rolling. Good job Derek!!

Grand boys visit

Barry likes to hold the ducks but they are not very interested. You can see how big they are getting. It turns out the lady we got them from breeds them for their large size. Oh my!!

Derek and Caleb decided to put their swim trunks on their heads and jump on Nannies bed :)

Poor Toby, I don't know if he will be able to last the whole two weeks with this bunch. Caleb thinks Toby is his own jungle jim and climbs on him every chance he can get. Toby looks very mornful.

We all enjoyed a lovely duet ;)

Derek takes after his Baba. He picked up Amber and took her outside to the chicken house and Amber didn't bat an eyelash. ;)

Ducks again

This is the littlest duck and we think it is probably the only female. Female muscovey ducks are almost half the size of the males. It's strange how they get their feathers mostly on the front of their bodies first. You can see they have down on their backs still.

Oh dear, Ping ate a slug and still has a dirty beak!! ;0

They usually taste everything they see. Here we see they are tasting my shoe and then they tasted my denim skirt too.

This duck is the biggest and tends to sit down a lot. I think I should put him on a diet of greens only. They love to eat chopped lettuce or greens especially dandelions!

The dark feathers on their wings are actually dark green and pretty. :)

duckies grow

I don't know if Christmas cacti are supposed to be blooming now but mine are. These pictures really don't do them justice. They are both so beautiful and yet I ignore them! ;)

This red one I have had for a long time and it has more than 60 blossoms on it. I'm amazed they bloom even though I don't fertilize them or anything. Maybe you need to stress cacti to make them bloom :)

Our ducks (shown here in our green house) are now 5 times the size they were when we got them. They have grown a lot of feathers lately but they are still mostly covered in down.

Halloween

Here is Andrew and Serena in their very cute costumes. Ann says she found the unicorn outfit at the Ladies Hospital Auxilary. Isn't it cute!! ;) Andrew of course is very spiffie in his fireman outfit!! The hidgeous thing in the back is Stewart!! Ha!

Hope you all had a fun Halloween!!

All things fowl!

One thing I am very thankful for is people don't molt! My poor hens are so ugly right. They are now the Bare Naked Ladies!!

The duckies are getting so big!! They just had a bath in their drinking water. Yuk.

Edna doesn't look quite as bad as poor Henrietta!!

Soon she will be her beautiful self again. I hope soon anyway as it's starting to get cold out.

Bigger ducks

The ducks are really quite an armfull. They more than twice their size now!
They love to go outside and paddle around in a puddle of water!
They also like to look for dandelions, one of their favorite foodies!

ducks

We have almost doubled our family members. Barry bought four baby Muscovey ducks yesterday. They are only 10 days old!! Here's Baba holding a duckling while Toby sniffes.
We have three brown and yellow and one that is all yellow. I hope we don't end up with all males!
This is the land of the three legged carrots.
Peak-a-boo!!

Wall

This is the wall that Barry and Jeremy built!!

Gardening

I had to take a picture of my little gardens bounty because for just one day that's not too bad. I have more tomatoes I picked today but they need to ripen a bit more!! :) Jeremy's going to pick the last of the peaches when he gets home. I can't reach them.

Fall

Have you seen the moon lately? Its been so big and beautiful!!
This is our local blue heron. He has been sitting on the pilings most mornings when I go for my walk. :)
The sky was so pretty this morning and the reflection on the water was beautiful. My picture doesn't do it justice. Clouds aren't ususally welcome but they can be pretty.;)
More sun and clouds and water!!
Our newly aquired chicken (we call her little peep but she was dubed Amber of all things) likes to be hand fed blueberries!! I wouldn't share my blueberries with a chicken!! Shes happiest when shes perched on Jeremy's arm.