06/20/2026
When Suzy died (last year) I had kept her leg band. So… when a snake took Daffy’s life earlier this week- of course I kept his band, too. Not to re-use, of course. I kept them much for the same reason someone might keep and cherish the collar from a dog or cat. Earlier, when I spotted Daffy’s drake feather on the table, I thought to myself “I should make something from this feather since it’s the first one I ever found and now he’s not here so I’ll never get the chance to find any more of them” - and I decided to click it into his leg band, along with one of his pretty iridescent wing feathers. Then I remembered that I still had some feathers from Suzy in my collection so I grabbed one of her wing feathers and one that I thought had an interesting pattern and clicked them into her leg band as well. It’s sad that they are no longer on this earth but I feel like this little idea had earlier is a simple, yet beautiful, way to honor them.
