No duck pond – no problem!  #Wordless Wednesday  #Feelin’ ducky in MY personal pond!

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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37 Responses to No duck pond – no problem!  #Wordless Wednesday  #Feelin’ ducky in MY personal pond!

  1. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    June 19, 2024 at 6:49 am

    One has to make the best of what’s around! 😉

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  2. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    June 19, 2024 at 7:06 am

    Wonderful duck Swing in pond.v

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  3. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    June 19, 2024 at 9:05 am

    Puddle, pond, it’s all the same!

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  4. Laurie's avatar Laurie says:
    June 19, 2024 at 9:53 am

    The duck is teaching us how to be happy with less!

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  5. Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
    June 19, 2024 at 10:05 am

    Making do with what it has. 🙂

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  7. Zazzy's avatar Zazzy says:
    June 19, 2024 at 10:46 am

    I love this duck and its “it’s a pond if I say it is” attitude!

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  9. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    June 19, 2024 at 12:01 pm

    A pond is what you say it is, Duck Logic 101.

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  10. Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com's avatar Janis @ RetirementallyChallenged.com says:
    June 19, 2024 at 6:50 pm

    A pond is in the eye of the beholder (or maybe in the feet of the paddler).

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  11. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    June 19, 2024 at 8:56 pm

    How cute, great capture, Linda!

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  12. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    June 19, 2024 at 10:43 pm

    Maybe he is teaching us to be happy with what you have and not what you want. Lol Send some of that water to our garden!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 20, 2024 at 5:49 pm

      Yes, a good lesson for us humans isn’t it Diane? We have had torrential rain since around 2:00 p.m. today and it’s been non-stop. It’s almost 6:00 and still raining, though not torrential. I went to the front door to see if it was up to the curb – no and nothing in the basement either. We got new sewers in 1990, but had one bad flood a long time ago. This weather … well, no brown grass for us due to the heat wave!

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      • indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
        June 21, 2024 at 11:29 pm

        Oh thank God you didn’t get water in your basement! We haven’t got much rain at all, 2-15 minutes downpours and that’s it. Yesterday Terry had to go water the garden, he put the hose away and it let loose. It was one of those where if you water, it will rain and if you don’t it won’t. 🤣

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        June 22, 2024 at 7:23 pm

        That torrential rain was something else Diane. What an experience hearing the pounding on the house with no let-up. Poor Terry – I hate when that happens. You spend all that time watering, then a downpour. At least the rain didn’t just run off but soaked in. Today is the last scorching-hot day for us and we are having a couple of bad storms overnight/early morning Sunday which breaks the heat. The heat was bad enough but the threat for severe weather every single afternoon/evening (and then it didn’t happen twice, but I worried about it all day) really made for a long week.

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  13. TD's avatar TD says:
    June 19, 2024 at 11:31 pm

    I love this enjoying its private land, Linda! That was cute and clever wordless Wednesday post! Gave me a great big smile. Our birds here will be enjoying all the extra ponds from tropical storm Alberto! 😄🦆

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    • TD's avatar TD says:
      June 19, 2024 at 11:32 pm

      *private pond*

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 20, 2024 at 5:40 pm

      I am glad you liked this duck TD. It made me smile too. Here it was, this little pool of water in a low-lying area and he made it his personal pond. 🙂 I thought of you this morning when I heard the national news and your city was mentioned for flooding. We have had a bad weather day for flooding too … already had about 1-2 inches in my area, it’s still raining and a flood advisory is until 8:15 p.m. I have only heard rain this torrential and long-lasting once before in my life. I really do not like this weather. Our heat has brought severe weather each day this week and we will have heat/storms through Saturday.

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  14. Shelley's avatar Shelley says:
    June 20, 2024 at 7:32 am

    Nice capture…now I’m wondering if that same space is flooded and if he’s swimming around saying, “See, Linda, I knew this was a pond after all!” 🤣

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  15. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    June 20, 2024 at 7:53 pm

    Improvising may be wise. Duck hunters could be out lurking around the lakes and ponds.
    Great pic, Linda. Much too hot here… and there is a Foul Air Advisory here today. (No pun intended)! 😉

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 21, 2024 at 5:28 pm

      Yes, they can stay out of danger that way Tom! Every since I saw a sign at Humbug Marsh (part of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge), I’m not as keen to visit there. When I saw the signs I thought: “wildlife refuge = duck hunting – makes no sense to me!” The ducks are smart to stay at Lake Erie Metropark, as there is no hunting there – just five miles away. I’m glad you liked the photo Tom – it did give me a smile to see it paddling around in a low spot in the grass. 🙂 Between the heat and bad air quality, June has been nothing special.

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  16. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    June 21, 2024 at 8:13 am

    Any where that there is a tiny bit of water ! I’ve seen them in ditches on the side of the road and when we used to have a pool, they would swim on the cover before we got it off lol

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 21, 2024 at 6:15 pm

      Yes, they are very funny just paddling away in the least amount of water … sipping water I “get” but paddling around in it, not so much. That’s funny about them going into the water on top of the pool cover. 🙂

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