The most wonderful day in Miracle's life

Miracle had spent all night alone in her cage through the rain.  The roof over the cage kept some of the rain out.  The little hamster hut over the hot rock kept her cotton rag dry.  When she heard the other ducks come to bathe, she called out to them to come rescue her.  Over and over, she chirped a call.  She really wanted to be with them.  Miracle could hear her mother's voice.  But they left without her, stuck in her little cage.  By dawn, she began calling for someone to let her out. 

Finally, the human came and opened the door.  Usually, the human would pick Miracle up, but today, the door was flung open.  At first, Miracle just hurried to the far corner of the nursery fold and called out for her mother.  After a while, she wandered over to the pool to have a drink.  The water had the delightful taste of a light touch of duck poop.  She hopped up the ramp and jumped in.  That's what began for Miracle the most wonderful day of her life. 

It lightly rained all day.  Ducks love rain.  Between the warm showers were sunny skies.  Miracle swam most of the day in the pool, sometimes bathing, sometimes preening, sometimes shooting rapidly below the surface,  sometimes just lolling around.  In between, she sunned herself on a cinder block feeling satisfied and sleepy.  She spent the whole day in the warm sun and delightful rain.

Late in the afternoon, Miracle woke up from a nap mighty hungry.  Her scratch bowl was gone!  The last time she saw it was in the terrarium in the kitchen.  She walked over to the porch by the door and started calling for the human to bring her scratch bowl.  Instead of bringing the bowl, the human came to get Miracle.  Something inside her was terrified of the monstrous human, and she escaped!  She really wanted the mighty hand to pick her up but she couldn't control herself.  She ran into her cage and cowered behind the hamster hut.  Cornered, Miracle was captured by the mighty hand. 

The hand placed her in the terrarium in the kitchen, where she indeed found her bowl.  Boy!  Was she hungry!  She gorged herself on grain and sips of water until she slept quietly all through the human's wellness dinner and presentation. Miracle felt lonely when she woke.  She tried to stand up in the terrarium, but it seemed to have shrunk.  She needed to crouch her head down a little in order not to hit the ceiling screen.  She could hear the humans talking somewhere else.  So she made a fuss until someone came.  The human wrapped Miracle in a cotton flannel rag and carried her out to another room where humans were sitting on a long chair covered with cotton cloth.   She squirmed around in her flannel swaddling.  This place looked interesting and she wanted to explore.  The hand spread out the cotton flannel on the cushion and let Miracle out on the couch.  She may be the first duck to sit on a living room couch. 

Finally it was time for bed.  The human carried Miracle out to her cage with the hot rock covered with cotton cloth inside a hamster hut.  She had had a long, marvelous day, and was weary and ready to sleep.  It had certainly been the most wonderful day of her life.