Bye-bye ducky, August rain (so far)

A little sad today. Not just because one of our female ducks died though, but that was sad. She had been looking skinnier and skinnier the last few days, then today she could barely walk. Rain put her in isolation for a while, but she just laid at the front of the pen by the gate. Rain took her out and sat her in the duck pool, and she got out on her own. Then she just laid, still on her feet though, next to the pool (guess that would be sitting then?). Anyway, a couple of hours later when we went out to feed the chickens and other ducks, we saw her still by the pool, but she was dead :-( We think that the heat must've finally got to her, but don't know for sure. So we said a prayer to release her spirit, and built a funeral pyre for her and lit it.

Other than that bit of excitement, the rest of the day wasn't too exciting. We, Rain really, got about 5 lbs. of apples picked from the apple tree. The ones we ate were really tasty :-) The majority of them are going to be apple pie filling and apple sauce, some will be used to make apple cider vinegar, and some will be eaten of course :-)

Didn't get any rain today, but it still wasn't a hot day, in the mid 80's I believe. So far this month we've gotten 2.3 inches of rain - far below the average for the month of August. Okay, so I don't know what the official average for August is, but last year we got about 7.5 inches in this month :-)

I took a two hour nap this afternoon. Not as much because I was tired, but mostly because I was bored and a little down (before we found the duck). Not sure why, just was. Probably could've slept longer, but it was 6 o'clock and time to feed the birds.

Rambleman

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