Quilt Quack

First order of business: Connor's quilt.

I have indeed rolled it this week. Yay!

I started this on January 12th.

I have quilted 29 days with an average of 1:50 on those days.

Obviously I didn't get to quilt every day... otherwise the quilt would be done.

I didn't quilt for almost an entire month due to the back injury.

I'm hoping to make great progress this month.

This is the third row of four.

Getting closer to finishing!

Second order of business: block #2 of the quilt block challenge.

The new patterns come out on Thursdays.

I got mine finished Friday.

I think the eggs are a little busy.

The next block will have the clock/key background.

I'm hoping that tones it down a little.

If not, oh well. Live and learn.

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Now on to the ducks!

There's good news and bad news.

First, the bad news.

We had one of our hens disappear this week.

We have looked all over for her and have not seen her or evidence of her.

We figured one of two things happened.

She may have gotten broody and went somewhere to set on a nest.

This is wishful thinking on our part because Indian Runners are not good mothers.

It's more likely she was nabbed by a predator.

Since there wasn't any evidence of an animal attack, it was probably a hawk of some kind.

We're so bummed she disappeared.

Now we're down to one drake and three hens (2 Indian Runner, 1 Khaki Campbell).

Thankfully they're prolific egg layers (for ducks).

So what's the good news?

We're going to try to hatch our own ducklings!

And we're going to attempt to have them hatch on Connor's birthday.

We've borrowed an incubator and started setting aside eggs for hatching.

I've read some articles about a 50% hatch rate with ducks... we'll see.

This makes it hard to figure out how many eggs to set.

What if they all hatch!?

I'll keep y'all posted.

Should be fun!