Spring dinner menu

Patrick Meany's creations at Glendeven's Farmhouse host-table. Need we say more?

Seven Duck Eggs

Seven duck eggs ready to hatch any day now at Glendeven! This is the 25th day, and they'll be out by the 28th day. Will keep you posted.

Llama kisses

Here you see Mama Llama giving one of her generous "kisses." Her daughter, Carla (shown below) also gives kisses. These are llama-style greetings. They don't like hands or to be touched, but they'll freely give this types of kiss. Affection, but on their terms.

And if you're really good, they'll lend you their ears.

Eggs for Sale

Too many chicken eggs!

There are very prolific girls here at Glendeven.

This Mendocino farm produces fresh eggs, and its own organic vegetables.

New Baby Ducks?

This little guy -- unfortunately, and very sadly -- is our last little duck left after visits by a wild predator. We've taken care of the immediate danger, so he's safe.

And as shown here, he is not so lonely that he doesn't find mischief. Here you can see him inside the "duck proof" fence we built around the fish pond.

We have about 24 duck eggs left that hadn't yet been used for baking (which is how we use the very rich duck eggs), and they're fertile. So we decided to incubate them and soon we'll hopefully have the offspring of our dear departed flock running around the property.

Below is a picture of a candled egg showing the growth after eight days. All systems go on the big Glendeven duck incubation.