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I just enjoyed reading this lovely e-magazine and highly recommend it!  I loved the article on keeping ducks.  It has been many, many years since I have owned ducks.  They were named Calvin and Hobbes and lived behind our little 14 x 48 foot trailer house when we were newlyweds.  You know, back in the good ole days.  It was an impromptu purchase for Easter one year.  I just couldn't resist buying a purple and pink duckling as an Easter gift for Mr. P.  Of course, I bought two because I didn't want lonely ducks!  These ducks were part of the reason we now have a homestead rule of "No new critters, unless their habitat/shed/ barn etc is built and ready to go."  Although I will admit it was many years before we realized that this should be a rule.  We purchased/adopted/ took in many other critters before I came to my senses on that issue.  I bought them and they lived in our tub for a while (can't remember how long, but long enough) and then we purchased them a really fine plastic kiddie pool from Wal-Mart.  Nothing but the best for those ducks!  Sadly, a plastic pool offers no protection from coyote nor the local school bus.  However, had I read this magazine, I could have made them a little pen for almost free.  Of course, then the internet was all but non-existent.  And people still used word processors and typewriters.  And cell phones were as large as a brick.  And gas was a LOT cheaper than it is today.  And we didn't eat a loaf of bread that I didn't make from scratch. And we were very poor because we were both going to college full time.  I guess a lot of things have changed in the 20 plus years since Mr. P and I married.  Where did the time go?  And then again, some things stay the same.  Maybe I should look into getting ducks so the kids can enjoy them as much as we did back then and maybe we can even make them a little pen like in the magazine and I can tell the kids the story of the two ducks I bought for Easter 20 years ago.

Blessings,
Mrs. P