Sunny Days

Well who'd have thought! A tiny ball of yellow fluff by the name of Sunny just makes soooooo much noise! Kim has just become the proud surrogate mother of a 5 day old duckling. Its residing in a box in the laundry at the moment until its big enough to be housed outside. (that could be a lot quicker than first thought!) The dog wants to eat it and frankly, in the middle of the night, it didn't seem all that bad an idea. No, no just joking Kim.

Little Sunny will live with the chickens eventually and hopefully if it's a girl (we're not sure yet) we'll get some nice duck eggs to try. We pick up 2 more "girls" tomorrow. I think four will do at the moment. There seems to be an art to this chicken rearing - the new ones will be put in tomorrow night while Cackles and Lala are drowsy and dozing off. Evidently it helps the resident chooks accept the new ones. Actually I'd be pretty put out if I went to sleep and woke up to find a couple of interlopers messing about in my house and eating my food.

It seems to be a lot different to my grandfathers day- toss them in and away you go.

Good grief have just taken shortbread out of the oven. What a mess! Its my first try with the traditional unglazed mould I had sent from the U.K. Hmmm better try that one again tomorrow. :)