The Ducks Cross the Road...again!

There is a road that divides the farm, it makes life...interesting....
When mid-July hit, and the rains stopped, the ducks went in search of a quieter and more moist home.  It involved stopping traffic one last time and vanishing to wetter pastures.  The ducks left, and for the past four weeks we were sure they were never coming back.  But we got a phone call from a neighbor down the road a few days ago,"Are your ducks missing?"  We answered that they were gone from here. "Well", he said,"I think they've been here in my pond for the past month.  They'll be coming back home soon, the pond is nearly dried up."  And sure enough, that night, we saw traffic stopped on the road in the middle of the evening rush.  It was the ducks.  They were crossing the road and coming home.  They've grown quite a bit in four weeks.  They look a little leaner, a little taller.  (They haven't been here eating the feed!) Maybe they look a little more mature since they left home...maybe I'm reading too much into this...regardless, the ducks are back.
Since they are now back among us, we've made their lives interesting again...the Pied Piper of the Farm-boy Trio has hugged them and carried them around.  He's given them rides on the goat, and offered them wild plums and sauced apple peels.  They've played tag with the dog, and moved back into the barnyard.
I wonder how long they'll stay now that it's started to rain again.  Maybe the neighbor's pond will once again call them to cross the road, or perhaps they'll stay the winter? Stay tuned.