Nice Day for Ducks

Yesterday, I tried to blog about the rain, but my computer shut down just as I was about to finish so I lost it. I need to buy a new computer, but the rain and gloomy weather have me depressed and filled with ennui so I can't seem to find the ambition to do anything. Even a task as simple as dialing the phone seems overwhelming.

Anyway, while I was looking for a picture to accompany my "rain whine", I found a site called The Duck Pond. Lara, the owner of the Duck Pond, also owns 409 rubber duckies. Here are examples of her ducks:

Sometimes one goes through life so uninformed.

I never knew there were so many different types and designs of rubber duckies and I wasn't aware that so many people collect them. (Actually, I didn't know that anybody collected them. I should have know though because just about everything is collected by at least one person.)

If you want to start your own collection:

You need to visit Rubba Ducks. They claim they'll have a duck to fit any personality. That's probably true because some of their ducks are really weird.

You'll want to visit Duck Planet. A website just for rubber duck collector. They held their 4th annual Duck Fest in Illinois last year.

Don't know where to start? Jodie Davis wrote a book about her rubber duckie collection called Rubber Duckie.

Don't go quackers with your collection though. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest duckie collection in the world floats over 2,500 rubber ducks.

And to think I almost never knew.

Rubber Ducky, you're the one,

You make bathtime lots of fun,

Rubber Ducky, I'm awfully fond of you;

...... Sesame Street (Sung by Ernie)