The Compulsive Ramblings Of A Philotherian: With a quack quack here, and a quack quack there...

As if you can't tell by all the quackery in my blog title, this post is about ducks. Not just any ducks, BABY ducks. Or ducklings, whatever you want to call them.

For some reason, I decided to check Craigslist today for baby ducks. something I tend to do from time to time. I stumbled upon an add for Khaki Campbell ducklings in Grassy -- yes, that's an actual town -- and decided to give them a call. I kind of texted them, emailed them, and then called them. I hope I didn't come off as persistent.

I finally got in touch with a girl by calling. I told her why I was calling and asked if today would be an okay to stop by. Unfortunately, she said she was at work, but her husband was home. Of course, I asked if they still had them, which she replied that they still had them all. She then told me that he also had 4 baby geese!

After I got off the phone with her, I gave him a call, but was unsuccessful in reaching him. I left him a message with my name and number and asked him to return my call as soon as he could. By the time I hung the phone up and sat down on the couch, he called! I'm guessing he's like me and tried to avoid answering the phone in fear it's someone you don't want to talk to.

Anyways, we talked about the ducks and agreed that today was a good day to come by, despite the fact it was well after 5. Then I asked him about the geese, which he was very reluctant to talk about. He then told me that he wasn't sure he even wanted to sell them. Apparently only 4 out of 20 hatched, so I can't blame him.

After I took some semi-horrible directions down -- completely my fault they were so horrible -- we went on our way.

We actually found Grassy and his county road without a catch, but it was finding his house that was tricky. It's all very odd. There's a little road off of the county road we were on with 3 houses along it. Of course, his was at the very end. As we pulled up, I could see someone standing on the porch. I rolled the window down and asked if he was the guy with the ducks. Thankfully, he was!

He had them all in what looked to be a huge rubber feeding trough. There were SO many ducklings, I was in heaven!! There were also 4 gorgeous little geese. I nearly squealed when I first noticed them. Of course, all the ducks were wild beasts and all rushed to the corner of the cage. Not the geese, though. A couple were standing in the center just staring at me. I wanted to die!

We had originally planned on getting 3, then said we would go ahead and get 4 so that we could have an even amount. We wanted 2 pure Khakis and 2 mixes. It would have been $16 for all 4 and I only had a $20s on me, so we both agreed that it would be a logical decision to just go ahead and get 5. I mean, what's one more, right?

On the way home, LaVaughn's BS dropped incredibly low -- which isn't unusual for her anymore -- so we decided to stop and have gas station food for dinner. They only had two hunks of pepperoni pizza, so it was fate.

I couldn't wait to get home and play with them. That's all I thought about. As soon as we walked in the door, I feel down on the floor with them and started playing with them. Of course, they're all scared and very skittish because they've never been handled, but I'm sure we'll change that in a few days. Unfortunately it wont be tomorrow, I have to work... sad face!

The ducklings are all settled and resting from their long journey. I'll be happy when tomorrow night rolls around. I can't wait to play with them after work!

I'm sure everyone experienced a little bit of the horrid weather yesterday and the day before. Apparently we didn't get hit as bad at work as we did at home. It rained like crazy, thundered a little, but that was the extent of it. LaVaughn gave me a different story as to how things went down at home.

I could tell it was pretty bad from the drive home. The road was nearly washed away and the bridge was semi-flooded -- I even had to clear a bit of rubble before I could cross last night! The lake is overflowing like crazy today, which you will see pictures of below. Luckily the weather didn't impact our driving to Grassy today.

Love & Peace

-Megan

Pictures of the overflowing lake: