We bought seven poults at Clark & Son’s.

Unfortunately, four-sevenths of them are not on the path to laying eggs.

Fortunately, my ability to cook creamy chicken over biscuits is improving.

Mom found us a Syracuse University basketball at a garage sale. It’s a good ball!

I found a gently used golden retriever on Kijiji. She’s a good dog!

Good dog.

Good ball.

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We go to Clark & Sons and buy two Muscovy ducks.

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We walk down to the stream.

We do not bring the ducks.

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I like this picture of Iris because I think she looks like me, only waaaaay more adorable.

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I like this photograph of Shirley because it is wonderful, and so is she.

Iris spent a good deal of time at Mom & Dad’s house learning the Adobe app Fresco. It’s designed to be used as a sketch-pad for Illustrator or Photoshop. She watched a number of instructional videos and had fun making simple designs and animations. Back home, she continues to learn.

Spoiler: because this is often a retrospective blog, written well after the fact of the action, I can tell you what happens next. Iris is very focused on school work and primarily uses the app as a multi-layered chalk board for mathematics. She screenshots and imports a math problem, then writes different ideas for solving the problem on different layers. She can make the layers disappear when they’re not working, or get back to them if she needs to. I think it’s a brilliant use of pen-&-tablet.