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I crashed early and Mary stayed up polishing silver until Who-Knows O’clock! I know it was late because I was up at 5:00 am ready to go, and Sleeping Beauty was sawing big logs, and she didn’t even stir when I got out of bed!
Sometimes I wonder why she puts up with me! Our friends also wonder!
We expect our cleaning crew to be here on Wednesday, so we started early this week. Everything was hung up in the closets with care. It looked like someone was expecting St. Nick to be here. According to my calendar, not for another 219 days, and we won’t be home to see him this year; we will be chasing penguins in Antarctica!!
While Mary was asleep, I went into the kitchen and made coffee. Then I heard a strange noise. It was a funny sound, and it quacked me up. There it was decked out in its feathery finest, Mr. Duck!
Derned Duck was checking the pool temperature before he went in for his morning swim!
Failure of the watchdog! The best he could do was to manage a yawn and roll back over. Nary a whimper for our alarm system!
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Lazy Bones #2 saw the duck and didn’t say a thing!
I managed to get up and amble over to the spot where Mr. Duck had been sunbathing! Snif sniff bark bark and he went back to bed. I am surprised he didn’t go in the house and find some duck food for Mr. Duck or at least turn on the pool heater.
Finally I convinced Scout to go out by the pool nad he said, “Hey, Daddy, I think there was a duck here!!”
