Sibling Rivalry....

So....

As you know if you are a follower...

There has been a bit of sibling rivalry among my siblings...

But nothing compared to the sibling rivalry among my grandbabies...

Or should I say my grandduckies...

LDBoy and MGirl acquired 2 ducklings a couple of months ago...

One of them died within a couple of days...

So the they got 2 more....

Because apparently ducklings do better when there are more than one...

And duckling farms only sell them in pairs...

Pairs being the key word....

Unfortunately...

For one of the ducklings...

Once they were big enough to be left alone, unsupervised in the back yard....

That is where they made their home...

Or LDBoy made a home for them...

He would go check on them every morning....

Bring them food and fresh water....

And they would all be happy to see him....

One more than the others....

That should have been a clue...

Because one morning there were only 2 ducks happy to see him...

The previously happiest to see him was not happy about anything....

Except that maybe it was know in ducky heaven...

From all appearances, it died a violent death....

Which surprised LDBoy....

He thought he had built them a nice home...

Well protected from the outside elements...

A safe haven from cats and foxes and raccoons....

And whatever else roams the night...

He watched for a couple nights and noticed a few predators attempting to get at the surviving ducks....

Attempting being the key word...

He had built a good home...

That is when he realized that ducks are only happy in pairs...

Three is not company....

Three is a crowd....

One of them had to go...

So they made it happen...

Kind of makes you not care anymore if some night hawk grabs the other two...

Where is Phillipia???

Maybe you do not care....

But I will tell you anyway...

I have been enjoying my new Fit and using it to cafe crawl....

I am crawling for car payments...

At the rate I am going, I should be able to crawl my way through a car payment every other month or so...

I can handle that...

And while crawling, I am reminded of all the things I do not miss about my Ford Taurus POS...

I DO NOT MISS.....

• Having to check the oil every other week....
• Having to wonder if I am going to be able to sit through each effin red light without my car stalling...
• Wondering if my car is going to decide to stall while I am doing 75 mph on the highway....or in the construction zone....or in the school zone...or anywhere....
• Wondering if that noise up front is really just a nuisance or if the front end is going to give out some day.....
• Wondering if I will be able to lock the doors as  I go through not so great neighborhoods at not so light hours or if the Door Is Open Light will trigger the Doors Will Not Lock feature....
• Wondering when the right front spring is going to break again, tearing my right front tire apart....
• Wondering why smoke pours from under the hood every time it is raining or misty out....
• Wondering if that sweet smell is actually anti-freeze leaking into the oil because the head gasket is going bad....
• Not having Air Conditioning in this Cleveland summer...
• The blind spots....
• The huge front end....
• Not being able to haul much of anything in the back seat because of how the doors open....
• Not being able to haul anything very large in the trunk because of its weird shape...

I DO MISS....

The closed trunk to throw my purse in....

and....

That's it.......