Diane and I managed to get out for a fast hike around the Safford preserve today during lunch. We got another true sign of spring. The first crocus’s (croci ? )

On the way home we decided to stop by and see Francesca and Veronique to say hello to their newborn baby duck. The duck was hatched last Friday and is the offspring of flippy and flappy… The two domesticated ducks that lived in the Huntington River until our friends Tim and Marie took them in for the winter.… They had one fertilized egg before flappy… The male (I think) ran off .. Luckily he’s come back and they have now six more eggs.

Francesca has named the new baby duck “Donald”… After the duck… Not the ex-president I suspect. He is so cute (again.. the duck, not the ex-[president)

It made me happy to see a new webbed foot neighbor !

nite all, nite sam
-me