I have to brag on my husband. This weekend he has built me the most beautiful garden. Injust one weekend this area at the end of the driveway went from a derelict no-man's land full of weeds and bits of brick... the detritus left over from my swamped vegetable garden from last year... to this beautiful blank slate, ready to be filled with good garden soil and planted. Poor guy is ready to drop, he's so tired. And the chemicals in the treated lumber are hell on his allergies, so he won't be able to breathe for 24 hours. But he stuck with it all weekend and it looks fantastic!
Grayson spent a good part of the afternoon with the ducklings, digging int he garden beds looking for things to feed them. We found out that the ducklings will eat earthworms if they are very small. Pong will eat a grub. They will not eat rollie pollies. But they will try to eat flies, though without success. This was all great fun for Grayson. It was a little disconcerting to see this normally very gentle child, who lovingly collects worms from the sidewalk after the rain to return them to the soil, gleefully dangling a live worm in front of the ducklings to see if they will snap at it. But it did keep him outside with us for a good part of the afternoon. And the ducklings need to get used to the idea of earning their keep!
When they are old enough to go outside to live, I will move all the junk that is piled up at the back corner of the garden and that will be the ducks' safe zone, with a house and little fenced coop and a wading pool.
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