Posted by alexandra_k on December 15, 2004, at 0:15:33
In reply to sorry you're blue...I have to clean my room :(, posted by Jai Narayan on December 13, 2004, at 8:08:02
I have to make my bed. That one really gets to me. I think 'why should I make you when I am only going to unmake you later?'
But I feel bad for not making it. I used to be rebellious and not make it as a matter of principle. It gave me something to glare at every now and then. But the really crazy thing about this is that I actually cannot stand to get into an unmade bed! So I end up making it just before I hop in. (Actually I like this, it feels fresher somehow..)
I do get piles of stuff. The 'oh yes, I'll read that oneday' kind of stuff. The 'but I'll save that just in case I run out later' kind of stuff.
I was feeling a bit depressed about not having seen the duckies for a while now... thought they'd gone away for good and all. And you just would not believe what turned up at 7.30 in the morning... A different duck, with 5 tiny ducklings!!! They are soooooo cute!!! She isn't as good a mummy as the other one, though. The other one would kind of hang back and keep a wary eye out on her babies when I was feeding them. If I got too close to them or if they got too close to me then she would make a warning noise at them. It took her a long time to trust me.
This other one literally stomps on her babies to steal the bread out from underneath their noses! I was thinking maybe she is a young mummy, but someone suggested that maybe it was the reverse and she had learned better. She sits on them as well (which is really cute) they all scrabble to get under her and every now and then a little head pops out! Anyway, that just made my morning!
And then this afternoon the other ones turned up again! I can hardly tell the mummy from the babies anymore. And they seem to have their flight feathers and a nice peacock turquoise blue one down the side (they must have been to the feather dresser in Sydney, Atticus). They are great, they nibble on my jeans and I have trained them to jump and kind of (almost) flip for food like a dog catching a frisbee. I have photos (of them trying to eat my pants and so forth) but I don't know how to put them on the net to give peoples a link.
Oh, and I know, they are only so cute and special to me because I have grown attached.
Simply everybody thinks that their duckies are the cutest. I think we get so many hanging out here becasue you aren't allowed to shoot them (for sport) on Campus. They tend to hang out at the places where the hunters leave them alone.
Shall I make my bed...
Oh no. I don't think so :-)alexandra_k the crazy duck lady.
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