These are the Easter ducks we got in 2003 when we lived in De Leon. We went to the Tractor Supply in Stephenville and picked them out. Then we went to Wal-Mart and bought a pool for them. The yellow duckling was Ferdy, the brown duckling was Ducky. I can't remember the black ducklings name.
This another shot from a low angle that shows the world from their vantage point.
This is Molly, the Black Lab. She loved the water, anywhere and anytime she was in it. As you can see she chased the ducks out so she could be in. That is Ferdy and Ducky in the corner. As Ferdy grew up her yellow down gave way to beautiful white feathers.
Molly and Ferdy came to be great friends. Molly would follow Ferdy around the yard. Ferdy was always vocal whenever Molly got in the way.
In the late winter or early spring of 2004 it snowed. By this time Ferdy was the only duck left. I remember that I had to go out and break the ice in Ferdy's pool so she could get in and sit in the water awhile. She was quite hard to keep up with whenever it snowed. She tended to blend in and hide with ease.
It seemed that creatures from the back pasture dispatched the other ducks. Ferdy was a die hard though, she weathered many scrapes. Unfortunately, Molly was up in years and both passed away within a year and a half of moving back to Waco.
I miss them both and still ponder the possibility of getting a new Black Lab and more ducks in the future. But that will have to wait until we get a fence. After all, we don't want a repeat of what happened to the others.
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