Awwwwwwwww! Poor little guy and your DH so brave to go after the bobcat! Bobcats don't get that big but I can imagine they can still do some damage if they feel threatened. I sure hope Felix manages to pull through. If not, I hope all that nest sitting pays off with a lot of happy little ducklings that take after him! I remember when I lived on the edge of a parkway, you didn't know their were coyotes around until the siren of a fire truck or police car sounded down the road. Then you'd hear dozens of them howling eerily in the woods only 30 feet from our building. People in the suburbs here have to watch out for coyotes grabbing their pets. I have heard of Great Pyrenees being excellent guard dogs for livestock. One woman on YouTube who raises miniature goats (which are so dang cute) has one to watch over them. I think one would be a great idea to watch over your ducks! And just to let you know how formidable they can appear, my mother told me one day about the polar bear someone was walking down the road. I thought she was joking around until I saw it! This one was all white about the size of a large St. Bernard. Yet I hear they are quite sweet and gentle pets.

I have not seen any sign of a problem with the compost made when my Black Walnut leaves are mixed in. Now if I take all the leaves that drop from one of the BW trees, shred them and plunk just those leaves down in an area I will see the Quack Grass die off and the Perennial Rye grow abundantly, but I've not done that anyplace else besides where Quack Grass is and the compost is always a mixture of many leaves. I have never tried to measure how much of the Junglone is in the leaves but I'd suspect not much.

If only a small area of the lawn is affected, you could try to dig out the quackgrass; but all the rhizomes must be removed because rhizomes as small as 1/2 in. can produce new growth if left in the soil. Frequent, close mowing can be an effective way to control quackgrass on lawns of bluegrass or fescue.

Hi Carolyn, I live close to Dallas. Agnespuffin, your right about dad being tired but on the other hand he doesn't really want to die either. I know if he had his way he'd just go to sleep and not wake up. Him and death don't get along he takes it very hard when he looses a loved one. He couldn't stand to go to his brothers funeral and I didn't press him to go cause his health wasn't good back then. He's has been up and down so much in the past 33 months it's getting the best of him and having depression anyway just makes it worse. Dad's famous words are I've never had it so bad or this is the worse it's ever been. As for thinking of good thought's today I thought of the times we rode horses when I was young, that was our time together. If I didn't have a horse or pony he'd take me to the local horse barn and rent a horse for a few hours for me. I did some gardening today it helped take my mind off my troubles for a while. The front and back yard is a mess right now. Funny how it can go to pot so fast. I have 3 potted Ivy's on the front porch and I noticed some wasn't looking good so I checked it out, in the smaller pot something had bit every stem off so now there is nothing left in that pot. Don't know what would do that. I can't wait for the meeting tomorrow I hope to have a some answers to mt questions of how they can help dad. Right now it feels more like I've had to give up a pet to someone I don't know and don't know just how they're going to take care of his needs other than the basics. I was reading online that there is no real test for dementia and one doctor calls it simply aging brain. The doctor thinks that by staying active by going out having friends to do things with, reading, hobbies helps keep the brian active enough to keep you from falling into the aging brain. If this is the case my dad falls right into the aging brain , Dad lost 2 of his friends 20 years ago and from then on he never found any other friends. He does not read for fun just what he needs to, he does like watching old shows, moives and things on WW2. He also likes watching the news. I could tell when I went over to his house he was so glad to have someone to talk to after being alone for 2 days. He said he use to go and park in the store parking lot just to have people around. Barb