Mottled Duck Tales-Day 15 update Safehaven

 

Day 1 of injury 4/27/2026

Missy, injured female Mottled Duck,flopped down  April 27, 2026, they had been in and out of pool and front yard for a couple of weeks, I thought she might die and/or lose her leg. 

Missy, Day 12 of my caregiver duties, May 7th. 

Missy has recovered all her feathers and though her leg will never function, on day 9 she took 2 steps, using the injured leg like a peg leg on a person. Day 10  she walked 2 feet, Day 12 she walked 3 feet, just like Chester, in Gunsmoke. 

the three of us have bonded, I do not feed them, they have all the food they need.

they love grass, our yard is perfect, they love sand and leaves, weeds and grass and algae to eat, its a duck buffet. 

Since I grew the grass tall for Beau, he has eaten no grass, which is our good news, for a month now. The grass is in the shade and Missy lays down to eat, Mr. does his bodyguard thing.

you can see them better if you pinch your screen out. Hard to see with cell phone pics. A good pic of Beaus Grass, now known as Duck Buffett

they love the sandy soil, which is our back yard, dirt, weeds. They bath in the pool and eat algae for dessert. ha ha

the photo above and below were taken Sunday May 10, Day 15 of MY ducks.

 I left Bob's chair outside to dry out the seat and Missy was so thankful. I may start a Duck Go Fund Me to buy her own wheel chair.

THE BIGGEST NEWS.

Today is May 18, 3 weeks yesterday since I wondered if she would live, or ever walk again.

She actually can spread her orange foot flat now. It does move  a little when she swims. and now she walks with it flat and has a slight limp. but, and she is flying, walking, swimming. they come and go, they have a schedule, just like we do. They sleep in the middle of the pool, (a sight that melts my heart seeing them in the moonlight, roosting in the middle in their Safe Place, they e eat breakfast, bath, dance on their tails, get out dry off and preen their feathers and fly off around 8 and come back at 10.. they spend the heat of the day in our shade and leave for dinner about 5ish.. She has healed and is 98 % healed.. I have to fight the desire to pet them/feed them, I could if I wanted to. I can walk up to one foot of them and put down a water bowl. 

Copy Cat Copy Cat and UPDATE on X-Ray

 

Ann from SnapEditScrap sketches, I do a copy cat inspired by hers. She uses colored pencils, I paint in Procreate on my iPad. https://annssnapeditscrap.blogspot.com/

My x-ray of my chest showed nothing is broken, Doc says probably a bone bruise and with heat/ice/Tylenol and Ibuprofen  and only light labor, should be better in about 2 weeks.

Little Mary Sunshine

Beau and the three pigs.

First I had to put up with 2 ducks, now its 3 pigs. and all mama does is work in house and yard and color on the iPad.. ALL, I say All she does.  this is also a COPY CAT. It looks like I am not crazy about the pigs and they are not crazy about me.

Turned these 3 into a

Purple People Eater? 

Wheelchair Rollover! Oh My

Yesterday was horrible. At our 9 am dermatologist appt for Bob, I was struggling to push him up the ramp, and do to slack off speed for a woman who passed in front of us, stopped and was backing down slowly to roll far enough away to get up speed, and the small wheels on the people mover, hit a wide crack at the bottom, turned his wheelchair over backwards and I went down out to the side. both of us down on the ground. The woman who passed in front of us came back and a man and a woman helped me get up and sat the wheelchair back on its wheels. The woman pushed Bob into the office and left us there..

Picture this laying on its back with Bob kicking like a turtle on its back. These are convenient, but his regular wheel chair, it would not have  happened. The big wheel would not have caught or turned it over.  Word of warning if you use one. I can't get the regualar wheel chair in/out of the car

His elbow was bleeding and due to an adrenaline rush I was shaking like a leaf... We got through the appt and back home and all we have is a small cut on his elbow and 2 large bruises, one on his back and arm, i have 2 bruises and my right hand is sore. I went for a chest xray because my rib was hurting, I see my doctor this morning.

I cried the rest of the day Just Because it happened.

We are blessed to have no permanent injuries. Bob swears it did not hit his head, and refused to go to the doctor. we are both alive and well

PT is coming at 9 and I have 10 am appt with my doctor to see what the x-ray showed, and she wants to check me  out.  Thank you Lord that we are not harmed.