Make Way for Ducklings!

Yay! The ducks are back. And they've brought babies! (Or they've had babies somewhere on campus. Last year was the first year they had babies apparently. I saw the boy and girl duck waddling around campus and then they disappeared so I assumed they moved on this year but they're back! (One of my favorite things prior to this, I would see all these cute little duck prints in the mud in one section of the lawn that a car had driven over so the grass wasn't growing. So cute.)

Also, y'all shouldn't be envious because I'm leaving work early today to do something fun like go camping. :) I'm volunteering to help out with a Girl Scout weekend. I'm pretty excited. I get to just enjoy the camping and hanging out with the kids without the actual responsibility of anything. :)

Last night the girls and I tried to make fire starters. We dipped paper egg crates with lint into wax. I'm not 100% certain they will work. I may take some with me this weekend to see if I can get one to burn. I think the girls used too much wax. They were a little zealous about the waxing of the egg cartons. And the wax wasn't paraffin wax which would work better but a soy based one that we could microwave. My hands did feel very soft yesterday after finishing the work. :)

Also, I'm really starting to enjoy Glutino products. I just had some vanilla wafer cookies and they are pretty darn good. They are weirdly packaged in that in the box of 10 cookies (yes 10 cookies... 5 bucks for 10 cookies... the wrongness of gluten free food.) has 2 cookies per little wrapped bundle. Yet the serving size is 3 cookies. So weird.