It's a boy!

Well, it's official - we have a boy!

Our Rouen duck has started getting the green head and stripe on his neck. I was hoping it would be a girl, but now I get to name the ducks after The 3 Stooges!

So, here's our first picture of the green headed Moe -

Gorgeous color isn't it?

And to show off another beautiful color - check out the blue on his wings.

And just so Larry and Curly don't get too jealous -

On a smellier note - I made two batches of soap recently -

Peppermint - which looks and smells great! I sprinkled red sugar on top and so far, it looks really neat.

and my first scent layered soap -
Top layer is Beau Brummel (Tobacco and black tea are the dominate notes with hints of fruit and spice)
and bottom layer is Sensual (Patchouli, Sandalwood, Vanilla and Lavender)
I would never had put these two together, but we weren't paying attention to which mold we put the first batch in, so we had to add some more. They go together quite well and I can't wait to see what the finished bar ends up smelling like.

It's only been 4 months

Okay, so I'm not doing great at updating the wyldewood blog, but we'll try to turn over a new leaf. It's August now and has been unbelievably hot here in West TN. We just got back from the 2008 Shelton Reunion and we had a blast! I love visiting family and we had a great time exploring around Hohenwald. NACO/Thousand Trails is a beautiful place and we always have fun while we're there. If I wasn't so forgetful, I would have some great pics, but you can always check out Amanda's blog to see some great ones.

We visited a couple of antique malls/stores and went to two great wineries. Keg Springs Winery had the best Blackberry wine I've ever had. I highly recommend it. Amber Falls was beautiful and I can't wait to go back next year and see it again.

Here's Drew and his catfish that he caught the first night we were there. It was pretty big, but we managed to convince him to release it so he could catch it again next year.

He's still trying to catch one bigger than my record. Of course, I don't have a picture, but everyone in my cabin can vouch for it, because I made sure they all woke up to see it.

I've been working on the website all day today and still can't get it to load up correctly. Every time I get the program to upload without errors, the webpage won't load, but if there are errors then at least part of it will load. I miss my bellsouth DSL so bad.