When Peeps was a baby she used to love to fall asleep on people's laps...of course she was much smaller then and fit better on a lap! Yesterday I got home and went out back for my Peeps Time and let her swim for a half hour or so. Usually when she is done swimming I kiss her little head and put her back into her ducky duplex to dry off...but this time I decided to do something different. I grabbed her and a towel and put her on my lap to dry off. Now if you have never seen a duck "dry off" then allow me to explain. A duck will not just sit there in the sun and just dry off...NO! They take an active part in drying off to make sure their feathers stay the way they should. Feathers to a duck are VERY important. If you could get a good look at a duck's bill they have little "teeth" that act like a comb and the duck uses these to comb the water out of its feathers. So the duck combs through the feathers and the water collects in the bill and the duck will shake its head and the water flies out...pretty simple process. Now if the duck is doing all this while sitting on your lap then you are in the splash zone and most of the time that Peeps was drying off yesterday I kept my sunglasses on for eye protection :) Another thing that Peeps likes to do while drying off is every so often she will get up on her tip-toes and flap her wings which usually ends up in me getting "bitch-slapped" in the face by a duck wing. But I don't mind...I love my Peeps! Isn't she beautiful?!?!
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