Lucky Ducks

Last night there was a big wind storm, but the farm came through relatively unscathed. However, in the morning, when I was meeting with Mary Quigley and Alex Lunt on the building site, there was a tremendous cracking noise. Looking up, we were just in time to see a big oak tree crash down from the cow path and towards the tent circle. The top of the tree fell just short of our cabin tent circle and I started to breath a sigh of relief, but suddenly my heart quickened as I realized that the tree had fallen square on top of the duck coop and pen.

Racing across the open field, I came up to the tangled mess fearing the worse. Amazingly, the tree fork had fallen so that two big branches lay on either side of the coop. The fencing was crushed beyond repair, but our ducks were unscathed. An amazing stroke of good fortune given that the oak tree was full grown and over 30 inches in diameter at the base of the trunk.