Lucky Ducks

This post will be a short one, but I saw something neat-o yesterday!

Recently at HCrizzle we have been needing to fill out all kinds of staff paperwork in order to update our child care license and make sure we're all current before the facility is inspected. I (as I often am) was put in charge of figuring out who needs what paperwork updated to be current and in the process of doing that discovered that only Sharonrose (the most recently hired person) legitimately works there. Bad news! Many of us needed current TB tests, as our previous tests had expired.

So: in an effort to be current and not be fired I, along with Amy J. (who was low on gas and needed to carpool), went to get shot up with TB on Wednesday afternoon at Concentra. (Amy and Ty decided that Concentra was some creepy government agency that was conducting experiments with its patients and that we were the next specimens... their motto seemed to fit the bill.)

After waiting an hour and a half before being seen by anyone, we got our shots and were able to return to work, promising all the while that we would return on Friday between 2:30 and 6 ("we close at 6 so...") to make sure we were TB free. We had just enough time to grab some pizza and a family sized salad from Little Caesar's because our entire lunch breaks were stolen by Concentra. Amy then informed me that we were now family because of our salad order. I'm OK with it.

Friday we did indeed return, abandoning our coworkers to the children, setting off in search of peace of mind (about TB and government experimentation). We went in, sat down and conversed for a short while with Matt and Lucas (who were there laying plans of turning the Concentra waiting room into an HCrizzle conference and planning HQ, and trying to work up a good pee, respectively) and then got our arms read. Nice and quick.

On our way out we saw something amazing!

That is a duck under a pine tree in the middle of one of those parking lots islands (you know the kind: with lots of rocks)!

I thought that was pretty amazing and then we made another discovery:

His wife! She appeared to be sitting on a nest and she looks exactly like a pile of pine cones!

Some more shots of the happy couple. Aren't they awesome?!

Animals are way cool.