Spring continued today, to unpack her gifts.   In the pond, chickadees gathered cat-o-nine tail fluff to line their nests with, Crocuses popped up under the birch tree , little heads were popping up from under the pond reeds, and ripples in the water spread when they disappeared under the surface.  My single duck was allowed to sit on the edge of the pond with the wild ducks who come to visit each day.  The last few days, they have been attacking her, and chasing her away,  for her part, she is so happy to see other ducks, she continued to cling to their company out of lonely desperation, I am considering getting her a male duck, just to keep her company.  In small patches in the big pasture, there is a glimmery gloss of green peaking up from the ground,  my boarder, an older quarter horse mare, with the disposition of a tolerant cat,  Silver- bell got to go out in a big paddock after having been in her small paddock and the ring all winter, she had had to be locked up because she would go thru all the electric fences to eat the acorns that fell from a tree in front of the barn, I am pretty sure, horses, are not in anyway, related to deer, or squirrels, and therefore should not be eating acorns, but Silver-bell loved them, escaping nearly everyday just to eat acorns.  Occasionally, I would look out my windows and see Ester, my not miniature pig, and Silver-Bell companionably eating side by side. Since  Ester decided that winter was over, and has ventured back outside, she immediately returned to nosing around under the tree for any treats she may have missed in the fall,  but Silver Bell has forgotten, she enjoyed her big field time.  And with that note, I am Off to hay.