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:

Toby being his crazy self:

Chloe's joeys:

The drive to Grassy:

And lastly, the ducklings:

The light brown ones are the pure Khaki Campbells and the darker ones are the Khaki x Mallard mix.

Possibly the worst day to go shopping EVER!

My lovely aunt wanted to go shopping today. Completely harmless, right? Wrong! After we had been driving for about 30 minutes we were stuck in the middle of a typhoon! The wind was fiercely blowing as the rain beat into the car window completely obstructing my view. At one point, I was driving 25 mph and thought I was going to have to stop.

After that was over, we made it to the interstate were the weather had calmed a bit. We flipped on the radio to see what was going on - only to hear that there was a tornado watch and possible warning for the city that we were driving into! When we made it to the mall and stepped out of the car, we could hear tornado sirens in the distance. Yes! Tornado sirens!! Did that stop us? Of course not! We continued on our merry way.

After we left the mall, we decided to head over to Walmart and pick up some things. After were there for nearly 20 minutes, my aunt talked with a lady in the back and was told that about 30 minutes ago everyone had to leave their items and go to the back of the store. I'm guessing this is when the tornado siren went off. While we were still shopping, we could hear how horrible it was storming and raining... that's when we decided to leave.

I went out while everyone was checking out and pulled the car up to the front of the store. They followed shortly there after. Walmart is in downtown and is also the lowest part of the town. We realized this when we pulled up to the stoplight and watched the small river run across the road. This wasn't even the worst part! After we got past that, we got to and even lower part where the cars in front of us were nearly flooding out! There were a couple cops on the side of the road getting ready to shut the highway down. Luckily, the car made it through and we were able to get the hell out of town.

So yeah, worst shopping day ever! We did manage to get some pretty awesome shirts, though. One being the coolest shirt in the world... a Marvel shirt!! It's so soft and awesome, I love it! We also got a Pink Floyd shirt, Jim Beam shirt and a Homer Simpson shirt. Definitely an awesome, awesome haul. Well, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here are the photos:

Look at the darkness in the clouds!

 We probably should have gone home.

 This was taken in downtown Poplar Bluff. Just look at the massive flooding!

 The road was practically gone.

If you look in the back, you can see that the cars are nearly under water.

And how about a bonus gallery of Odin from last night:

And lastly... a video!!

I've got some exciting news!

We've decided to breed again! Sugar gliders that is, lol. We've been thinking about it more and more here lately and decided that it's something we want to get back into. We let Sadie and Pip mingle for a few minutes earlier today and it was like they had never been separated. They followed each other around for a few minutes and then spent the rest of the evening in their pouch together. We also decided to put Kira and Logan together. I know you may question this, considering we were planing on selling him, but I've tried to contact the girl that was planing on getting him for well over a week now and still haven't heard anything from her. And since he and Kira were both alone, we decided to put them together. I guess it worked out for the best. They, too, hit it off. So I guess you can expect more joey pictures from us in the very near future!

While everyone was getting to know each other earlier, we also decided to clean the cages. And they look awesome! I'm also in the process of washing cage sets and cleaning wheels. And to top the evening off, we also clipped everyone's nails. It's been a pretty productive day, lol.

We also managed to nab some pics and videos of the flooding around our house. It's pretty bad, but I guess it could be worse. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Movie of the day: Insidious

Here are some new pics of the flooding from yesterday:



And now for the gliders:

Sadie

Charlie

 

Pip

Logan & Kira

Charlie

Sadie & Pip

Logan & Kira

Logan

And now for the videos: