Ducks and a Kitten

We think it's the heat, but we suddenly had a bunch of bread in our pantry turn to the dark side, so we took the opportunity to go feed some local ducks on two different occasions.  In between the two duck feeding activities, we found a kitten in Papa and Gramma's back yard. Totally fun for Aurora :)

Duck Feeding Activity #1 - July 5th

These local ducks are well trained!  We had barely parked our car and gotten out before they were all heading across the parking lot to us ready to be fed :)

Found a cozy spot for duck feeding

Nice shades, Vannah!

Aurora was in love with feeding the ducks, and good at it too!


Lots of hungry ducks and geese

The two white ducks were very chatty with each other.  It was pretty cute :)

Beautiful mammatus clouds--we had a HUGE storm rolling in and once the thunder and lightning started we sped up our bread throwing.  I love clouds, especially storm clouds.  They make me happy :)  Weird.  I know.

We named this goose Honkey.  He/she wasn't very nice, and definitely a bread hog.

These birds are smart.  They knew when we were out of bread and headed back to the water.  I guess they got out of us what they wanted though.

After feeding the ducks we went into town on a quest for some kettle corn.  The wind picked up and we figured the vendors would be closing up shop quickly, so I jumped out of the car and ran to find the kettle corn booth.  As soon as I got there, you could almost see a wall of wind coming right at us, the gust was so big!  I got my kettle corn and raced back to the car.  Then, Rori said she needed to use the potty and there just happened to be some porta-john's right in front of where Dar had parked.  He grabbed her out of her seat and attempted the bathroom, but it was too scary for her because it was so loud.  Oh well.  As soon as they got back in the car the heavy rain hit.  It was so cool! :)  Aurora kept asking us to roll down her window, so Dar cracked it open a little bit for her and the rain came in the car.  The rain came down hard, and I slipped and fell on our slippery concrete just outside our condo, but it was all good.  We came inside and watched the rain and the wind for a bit before it died down.  My only complaint is that those awesome storms never last very long here.  I honestly wish they'd go a bit longer.  Those poor vendors though, bummer they had to try to clean up all their stuff in that storm.  I really only love those storms when I can sit and watch them and listen to the awesome thunder.  Being stuck outside in it isn't always so great :)

Found a Kitten - July 6th

 Darwin has been working with his dad quite a bit this summer.  Sometimes the girls and I go over too to spend some time outside in the nice summer weather.  We love going to Gramma and Papa's house!

Aunt Georgiana was still here and we got to spend a little more time with her before she flew home that night.  I was helping Aurora on the teeter-totter and we could hear a little kitten mewing, but then it stopped.  It started up again a while later so I went to see if I could find it.  It was hiding inside a cinder block behind a stack of wood in the back yard by the garden. I don't think it wanted to be caught because it scratched me as I was trying to grab it.  It was a cute little kitten, and Aurora loved it!

Beautiful little Savannah, hanging out and observing as usual :)

Papa found a cage to keep it in so it wouldn't run away and so I didn't have to hold it the whole time.

The kitty sounded sad and Aurora kept telling us it wanted its mommy and daddy--she was probably right

We didn't want to keep it, and we checked with several of the neighbors who didn't claim it, so we brought the kitty to the animal shelter.  Hopefully he/she'll get a nice home :)

Feeding the Ducks Again - July 8th
Aurora really enjoyed it the first time, and since we had more bread turn to the dark side over the weekend we decided to go feed the hungry ducks again.  This time she had the idea to pop some popcorn and bring that to feed the ducks too.  The ducks didn't seem to mind the popcorn, but the geese wouldn't eat it.  We're not sure why...anyone know?

We saw our mean friend, Honkey, again

Cute little family of ducks joining the party

Dar was able to feed several ducks and a couple fish from his hand.  Aurora did it once too, but once was enough for her.  She didn't like that the goose pecked her finger as it grabbed the bread from her.  We were just proud of her for trying it and succeeding!


Pretty pelican came to join the party too


Savannah was there too :)

There was a really pretty sunset that night.  I guess there were some fires around because the smoke made the sunset so red!!

Yay for fun summer activities!