Mother Nature

A couple of days ago the fishing crew found some baby ducks out on the water with no mom.  They were heading right to one of our nets so they scooped them out of the water and ended up bringing them back home.  The hope was that we could call Fish and Game to figure out what to do with the babies.  Thinking of course that we'd probably be flying them into town.  

In the meantime, the kids got busy making "habitats" for the ducklings.  Yes, that is the exact word they used.  There was one tote for "land", and another for "water".  All in all the ducks seemed pretty happy, well except for their constant wanting to jump out of the totes.  With two dogs running around it wasn't a good idea to let them loose in the grass.  Our phone (of course) wasn't working so the ducklings had to stay the night.  The kids made them a nice soft nest out of rags to sleep in.

In the morning, our phone still didn't work and one of the ducks had taken a turn for the worse - he didn't make it.  Nana gave the kids a good talk about Mother Nature and that nature has to take it's course and that it was time for us to put them back where they belong.  This of course led to Emmett immediately barging into the house saying, "Mom?  Where does Mother Nature live?"   (photo by Garett)