Sharp Family to the Rescue

So yesterday we had a pretty uneventful day. We went to the temple in the morning which was nice and we then went shopping for some school supplies for Mike. After that there wasn't a whole lot left to do. At around 8:00 p.m. we had had cabin fever long enough that we decided to take a walk. We checked out our empty swimming pool at the complex and noticed that there were 2 little ducklings swimming around in the rain water at the bottom. A mother and father Mallard were squawking at them but the little ducklings couldn't get out of the pool. Eventually the ducks just left them. We were a little concerned and didn't quite know what to do. We thought maybe the parents would come back and help. We ended up calling a Wildlife center who told us that they were now abandoned and needed help. So Mike hopped the fence and rescued the ducklings. It was very cold and windy outside and one of the duckings wasn't doing very well. We decided they could take up residence in our bathtub for the night. Sadly, after about an hour, the sick little duckling passed away. It was really sad because we had tried so hard to warm them up. I guess we did as much as we could do. A website told us to put a plush toy in with the ducking so that they could cuddle up to it. It was so cute this morning to see the little duckling cuddled up next to Mikes stuffed "iguana". We are planning on taking the last duckling to the Wildlife Center this morning. Hopefully they'll have a safe place for her to live. It ended up being a pretty eventful and emotion filled evening. We hope we did the right thing for them. I think so.