Lord Love a Duck

The title of this post is compliments of Donal Sullivan, Rose's dad, who used to exclaim this as a response of disbelief.  "Lord Love a Duck" is really a wonderful phrase, and I try to use it whenever I can.

Today was a perfect day for it: we got to hug a duck.

We went to Sequim's Museum and Arts Center, where on Fridays, one of the docents brings her pet duck, Peeper-Squeak.  Peeper-Squeak apparently enjoys hugging humans.  Or at least, he has been trained to allow this to happen.

Also, notice the mastadon in the back.  The mastadon is awesome.  They found it here.  It's actually the Manis Mastadon.  It's a pretty exciting discovery of a Mastadon here North America -- most notably, they were able to determine that it was hit with a human arrowhead -- the first time they had evidence that humans and mastadons lived at the same time!  Here's some more info on the Manis Mastadon.

Unfortunately, we did not have the opportunity to hug a mastadon.

But Peeper-Squeak, well, he's a bit of a local celebrity.  He has a Facebook page, too. I don't even have a Facebook page (still).  Clearly, the duck is part of the ongoing conspiracy to attempt to shame me into joining.  If a duck can have a page, surely I should?

Nope.