For anyone who has loved

[BirdbyBird]

About the love that finds us or that we find during this journey....

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[retiredhappy]

Loved Duck. RIP

[Nasoosie]

Sobbing here for the many ducks the kids and I raised when they were still at home. Those little black ducklings acquired one Easter lived for many long years in a camper top hut on our lawn with their plastic swimming pool alongside. (I had thought ducks were short-lived-----WRONG! It seems they can live to be about 20!) "Time to feed the ducks" was the dreaded phrase in our house twice a day for at least 10 years!

We had Pooper, Zeke, and many others throughout those ducky years. We also learned to love duck eggs in many forms from scrambled to used in baking. If allowed to nest, the females produced tons of babies that we always tried to find homes for! Needless to say, that plan wasn't always successful! They had free roam and would catch their own bug food in season, but were confined to their hut during the cold winters. Eventually we built the duckhouse with roosts for them, and ran a wire out there for a heater and a water dish warmer. However, in later years, although confined to a pen at night against hungry coyotes, owls found a captive bunch of tasty food in a pen that they could fly in and out of, and were picking them off one by one before I realized what was happening.

The experiment of letting them have free range in our pond down the dirt road proved to be coyote fodder, and many were lost until we brought them back to the relative safety of our yard and fake pond.

Ah yes....we have many of our feathered friends in our family/pet cemetary on the road to the pond, complete with a cement monument made by my daughter to our loved ones.

Thanks for these memories, Tina.

[BirdbyBird]

I responded, also, just to his language of remembrance for those we have loved/and continue to love in our memories.....ducks, dogs, humans.....love is love.....it is what our hearts decide.....

[Liz]

Aw...

[Irmi]

Thanks Tina. That was very touching.

[Getupngo]

Very sweet. I love the notion of permission to allow another person in.