Really, I Live Here??

This is my view as I write this...really!  Yesterday every box in the house was cleared out and everything has its place.  We dusted and polished, bought a new rug and we are in.  In a poem by Robert Frost called, 'The Road Not Taken' he writes:

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Enough said!!

View from the Road that leads to our home

Just Laying Eggs

Brooding Moma Duck

So 'brooding' is when the animal begins to sit on the eggs for an extended time incubating them for hatching.  Evidently, once there are 8 or more eggs in one spot, the duck will make a nest around the eggs and begin to 'brood'.  Since I have been here, I would normally find duck eggs laying anywhere but in a nest.

Next...American eel found when we were walking in the stream.  I first thought it was a nest of snakes until I saw they each had a long fin on their backs.  They grow to 2 or 3 feet and are part of the Chesapeake Bay Program

The American eel is a smooth, snake-like fish with a greenish, yellowish-brown or blackish body. It lives in rivers, streams and other freshwater areas throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed

REALLY.... every day brings something new, something different and totally unexpected!  

This is the stream we found the eels in