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Open Thread: Bixby’s Ducklings

by TaMara|  March 10, 202111:10 pm| 45 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Duck Blogging, Open Threads, Pet Blogging

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Open Thread: Bixby's Ducklings

Bixby was a good boy tonight and calmly hung out with the ducklings. He was quiet enough that the ducklings decided it was okay to investigate him. He was a happy boy. He was not as happy when Gabe joined the party.

I’m off to put the big ducks to bed. We are expecting anywhere from 8 inches to 3 feet of snow this weekend, LOL. I figure by Friday they’ll let us know for sure. Meanwhile, I’m prepping the big ducks for the worst – it’ll be warm enough for them to stay in their coop, but I suspect I’ll be doing a lot of proactive shoveling to their coop and around it if we get the big numbers.

Looks like we could use an open thread.

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45Comments

  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    March 10, 2021 at 11:17 pm

    Bixby is a very good boy, and the ducklings are adorable. What are their names?

  2. 2.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 10, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    Awwwwww!!!!!!! ?

    We are expecting anywhere from 8 inches to 3 feet of snow this weekend, LOL

    Keep us posted on the depth of madness.

  3. 3.

    Achrachno

    March 10, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    I have no ducks and no snow either.  I did have a raccoon in the front yard a bit ago, and it rained today!

  4. 4.

    TaMara (HFG)

    March 10, 2021 at 11:40 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: No names, yet. I want to make sure I can keep them alive first. Sigh. Although they are lulling me into believing they are thriving. LOL

  5. 5.

    quakerinabasement

    March 10, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    Do you remember, years and years ago, there was a TV commercial for Gravy Train dog food that featured a Great Dane and some ducklings?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSc1MtLqg-8

  6. 6.

    TaMara (HFG)

    March 10, 2021 at 11:49 pm

    @quakerinabasement: OMG that was awesome.

  7. 7.

    Benw

    March 10, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I hope it’s a good sign they’ve conquered Bixby

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    March 10, 2021 at 11:54 pm

    Away from the computing machine for most of the afternoon. only now saw folks asking about my well being.

    Fine. Safe.

    Dry? Not so much (outside). Still rains blowing in. Depending on where one is on the island, there’s been between 8 and 16 inches already come down since Monday. Forecasts are for on and off, albeit lessening, rains straight through this coming Monday.

  9. 9.

    rikyrah

    March 11, 2021 at 12:03 am

    They all look so cute ??

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    March 11, 2021 at 12:11 am

    Bixby is such a good boy.

  11. 11.

    John Cole

    March 11, 2021 at 12:14 am

    I called today and Tamara answered the phone “THE DUCKS ARE FINE JOHN” and then rejected my names of Earl and Eileen.

  12. 12.

    Another Scott

    March 11, 2021 at 12:15 am

    @NotMax:  That’s a LOT of rain. Thanks for keeping us updated. Good luck and stay safe.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  13. 13.

    frosty

    March 11, 2021 at 12:26 am

    OMG that picture of Bixby and the ducklings couldn’t be more adorable!

  14. 14.

    Achrachno

    March 11, 2021 at 12:32 am

    @frosty: What if there were three ducklings?

  15. 15.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    March 11, 2021 at 12:41 am

    Love your new ducks TaMara, so cute.

    It is interesting reading about your experiences with the Covid-19 vaccines. We here in Aus have managed to get about 60000 in arms so far, with goal of vaccinating all adults (& possibly children) by the end of October. This equates to 200000/day. Ain’t going to happen. But as we have no community transmission, end of the year should do.
    I have just crept ever so much closer to 60 today. With this and comorbidities I will qualify in group 1b. At least a month away I think.

    Am very impressed with your new executive and senate (the house has been great for 2+ years) and hope, as you all do that the filibuster can be destroyed or toyed with.

    Everything that happens in the US either effects us all or we follow in lock step. Thank all that is secular that the planets greatest menace is out of power. Please may the lessor bastard-idiots be soon to follow.

    Firs thing I saw on breakfast news this morning was someone praising Rupert Murdoch. Just for a second I thought YES, he’s gone. But no just his 90th birthday. What a bugger to share with that soulless gouhl.

    best to all the jackals.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    March 11, 2021 at 12:54 am

    @Another Scott

    Some pictures included at the link.
    Kaupakalua Farm House on Maui Swept Away by Flood: “There’s Literally No Trace”

  17. 17.

    oclib

    March 11, 2021 at 1:00 am

    @NotMax:

    So, the pineapple express is locked over the pineapple.  Please ask Lono to release it to So Cal….. :)

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    March 11, 2021 at 1:11 am

    FYI, more local weather related stuff.

    Federal officials have approved Hawaii Gov. David Ige’s request to declare a disaster for Maui County amid drought conditions that have persisted for two years.

    State officials announced this week that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack approved the request for a secretarial agricultural disaster declaration, the Maui News reported Wednesday.

    Even as parts of the county experience heavy rain and flooding this week, other parts remain in some of the worst possible drought conditions. Maui County includes the islands of Maui, Lanai and Molokai. Source

  19. 19.

    cain

    March 11, 2021 at 1:26 am

    @John Cole: I had Deloris and Ernie. Nobody is gonna listen to me.

  20. 20.

    Martin

    March 11, 2021 at 1:27 am

    @oclib: Can we let the Santiago Cyn folks dig out first?

  21. 21.

    cain

    March 11, 2021 at 1:28 am

    @NotMax: ​
     
    Crazy how weather patterns are where one country can experience extremes on an Island.

  22. 22.

    Martin

    March 11, 2021 at 1:28 am

    @NotMax: You guys have the wildest localized weather.

  23. 23.

    oclib

    March 11, 2021 at 1:37 am

    @Martin:

    understand….but, we’re still gonna need it down the road and I believe you can even agree with that….

  24. 24.

    Kristine

    March 11, 2021 at 1:44 am

    @quakerinabasement: I’m so old that I remember that commercial.

  25. 25.

    cain

    March 11, 2021 at 1:45 am

    @cain: ​
     
    I meant county.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    March 11, 2021 at 1:48 am

    @NotMax:
    Glad you (apparently) haven’t lost power. Are you provisioned to ride out the deluge? ☔​

  27. 27.

    Mary G

    March 11, 2021 at 2:05 am

    Finally got a bit of real rain here today. The last big storm broke up somewhere in Irvine. Pieces passed north and south of here and we got nada.

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    March 11, 2021 at 2:11 am

    @Steeplejack

    Plenty tucked away for just in case situations. On Thursday plan on heading into town for the monthly grocery and booze run as have to go anyway to pay a bill whose due date approacheth.

    Assuming the weather cooperates.

  29. 29.

    prostratedragon

    March 11, 2021 at 4:11 am

    Happy 100th, Astor Piazzolla. From the middle portion of his “operita” Maria de Buenos Aires, with lyricist Horacio Ferrer as El Duende, Hector de Rosas as El Payador, and Amelita Baltar as Maria (monitor phones if you got ’em):

    Tocatta Rea
    Miserere Canyengue
    Contramilonga alla Funerale
    Tangata del Alba

  30. 30.

    satby

    March 11, 2021 at 4:53 am

    Did the blog break?

  31. 31.

    Baud

    March 11, 2021 at 4:54 am

    @satby:

    If you think about it, hasn’t it always been broken?

  32. 32.

    satby

    March 11, 2021 at 5:00 am

    @Baud: true. Weird for such a lack of activity and posts from 11 pm to now though. Hope AL is ok!

  33. 33.

    Baud

    March 11, 2021 at 5:10 am

    @satby:

    Yeah, the Covid post is usually up by now. No On The Road, either.

     

    ETA: On The Road just posted.

  34. 34.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 11, 2021 at 5:49 am

    I guess nobody has much of anything to say this AM.

  35. 35.

    Rob

    March 11, 2021 at 5:55 am

    Aww, ducklings and Bixby. The perfect thing to read about as I am waking up.

  36. 36.

    raven

    March 11, 2021 at 6:09 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Greetings from Alaska, all (most) is well.

  37. 37.

    satby

    March 11, 2021 at 6:11 am

    Well, I’m all set for spring forward anyway. My internal clock has woken me up at 4am every morning this week. Next week I’ll probably still be dead asleep until 6 ?

  38. 38.

    satby

    March 11, 2021 at 6:11 am

    @raven: you’re in Alaska?

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    March 11, 2021 at 6:26 am

    @raven: Good to hear. Tell him I said, “Hey.”

  40. 40.

    raven

    March 11, 2021 at 6:31 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Will do

  41. 41.

    rikyrah

    March 11, 2021 at 8:05 am

    @John Cole: 
    Not bad names, Cole☺️

  42. 42.

    zhena gogolia

    March 11, 2021 at 8:59 am

    Cute overload! You could do a children’s book with these pictures. I’d buy it, and I have no children.

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    March 11, 2021 at 9:12 am

    @quakerinabasement: That is absolutely adorable.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    March 11, 2021 at 9:13 am

    @John Cole: I like Earle and Eileen!

  45. 45.

    TheronWare

    March 11, 2021 at 12:46 pm

    Bixby & ducklings yay!

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