Lucy the goose has been sat on some duck eggs for the last 35 days, and this morning they hatched. Caroline went to feed the chickens and one of the ducklings was already out and still wet, with another pecking away from inside the shell. A little later and we now have two muscovy ducklings and one very proud 'parent' goose.
A word of warning. We left the unfertilized goose eggs under Lucy, and this afternoon there was the most awful smell coming from the chicken pen. Lucy had pecked and broken the shell on her bad goose egg. We assume to help out a chick that wasn't there.
Caroline and I installed the new swing today. A huge improvement over the old swing, which is now on it's way to the recycling depot. The kids like the twin face-to-face swing the best.
This afternoon I have been catching up on the mowing. The weather has been very showery and today was the first real dry day suitable for the mower. The warm, damp weather is great growing weather for the local farmers, but an extra headache for me, as there are too many grass clippings to be left without collecting.
Caroline got the short straw as she has been stuck with the accounts and a reluctant French accounting package to try and do our TVA (VAT) return. Error messages and telephone support lines are very, very difficult in another language.
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