I Wasn't Kidding About the Duck

We are in northwest Connecticut, in an area called The Farmington Valley. (Valley dwellers, unite!) It is The Country out here, people. Where they grow corn and listen to bluegrass and some towns are population 1,000. And they keep ducks as pets.

This is my sister's sister-in-law with her duck O'Mallie.

This is her cockatoo, Miranda. Miranda can talk, and she took a liking to me. She sidled up my arm to my shoulder and made very strange noises in my ear, and nuzzled my cheek with her head. Behind my smile I am thinking "Please don't poop down my back."

This is where we went shopping.

And this is my sister, the mom. She's a natural.