Duckies Rule! (tm)

Once upon a time, I started to leave up the family's artificial Christmas tree in front of a large window all year long. I would decorate it differently for each major holiday. It became an embarrassment for my 12 year-old daughter who told me "it made a lot of people wonder if her dad was strange" -- "a lot of people" meaning kids her age and her. Now, she is much older and gets it that quirky can be good, and duckies are irresistibly cute and indestructible. . . . . . . . . . The Duckies Rule! products owe much of their existence to "demands" made on me by visitors, friends, and neighbors, who enjoyed my ducky garden art in West Seattle, Washington, from 2006 to 2014. . . . . . . . . . . . However, as resilient as they are, the Lulu Ducky Clan (tm) woke up one day and said "Time to move on to a quieter, less smelly place." Their West Seattle birthplace had been all but completely destroyed by an industrial-sized county project. And, so, in 2015 they migrated to Bellevue, WA, where they won the Charles Griswold (grand prize) award for exterior Christmas decorations for the entire neighborhood of Newport Shores two years in a row. Now retired, but still active, a few ducky refugees and I have returned from Hawaii and settled down in Blaine, Washington. Although retired from active exhibits and garden entertainment projects, I am still making products from a huge inventory of photographs taken between 2005 and 2015. And, of course, we try to teach humans about "duckitude." "Duckitude -- gotta have it, world won't last long without it." See Duckitude.com to learn more about the Lulu Ducky Clan and the meaning of duckitude. Keep on quackin' -- Aloha, Ron