The Good: I like my new toy, and I have dried Baby Spinach, Banana’s, Green Pea’s and whole heads of purple cabbage, I am very impressed, but it had a added side bonus that I was not expecting, it makes my living room warm like I have a heater on in it.. Awesome, it was really starting to get chilly in the house, needed to add more socks and sweaters, but with the dryer going, suddenly I am comfortable back in my bare feet in my flip flops.
The Bad: Dh went to make oatmeal cookies to night, he followed a company’s coming recipe and they are truly bad!, I barely got one down and then had to wash my mouth out, they would be dog food to be honest but he added in a whole heap of raisins, so now its not dog safe, It was so greasy and so sweet and bland all at the same time, that’s what I get for having spent the past years cutting down on the fat, the sugar and adding in either fruit purree or veggie mush to everything.. I finally looked at the recipe and about fell over, it called for a cup of oil, a freakin cup of oil! for a typical batch size of cookies, no wonder they are so greasy.. Needless to say, I was looking forward to a cookie or two with my night tea, and I won’t be eating these, I will however make a different batch tomorrow, and I have added a note to that recipe that say’s Don’t make again..
Now for the what?, I had a duckling born last weekend, he or she is growing, eating and moving successful from place to place but when moving, it tends to go in circles or half circles, now its siblings are normal and it’s not being picked on.. but I figured when it did the circle thing that it was not born normal, and would just pass but wanting to give it a chance as we did have one turkey that we called crooked neck that had baby issues and did just fine till she was old enough to butcher, and this little guy is doing fine, moving from place to place, momma duck likes him and has been seen eating and drinking and going to the bathroom normally, but anyway you cut it, that need or urge it has to go round, and round and round it a HUH to me..
Anyone ever had a newborn duckling that likes to go in a circle? If so, what happened in the end, did it outgrow it? Did it reach adult size?
Update on the circle duckling, it passed away naturally at around one week of age, its siblings are all normal and thriving.
Just another Day on the Farm 
that is not a good thing they will not grow out of it . It has to do with what keeps them bouyent in water.
Well, if it just effects that, its fine, I have bathing tubs in the duck pens but no pond, thanks for the help..
I’m really glad nobody puts me out of my misery when I wander in circles like I only have one oar in the water. It could be blind in one eye. I think it’s a crap shoot, we’ve had ducklings and chicks that were ‘goofy’, thought it was due to inbreeding, but they turned out fine later. We’ve had ducklings from the hatchery that seemed fine until they got older and we realized they were simply not thriving as they should. Ya just gotta deal with these things one bird at a time. Congrats on your awesome productivity this year, Birthday Girl 🙂 !!!
Hi Pam
Glad you liked the post, I hear you about the hens and eggs, we had a bad wind storm and the production dropped by half for a good three days afterwards, Always have a chuckle, the hens in the house.. ack, its storming, the ducks and geese.. are like the surfer dudes.. Let rain bath or even cuter.. Its snowing.. lets snow bath…