{"id":4859,"date":"2011-01-13T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:18:09","slug":"national-rubber-ducky-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4859","title":{"rendered":"National Rubber Ducky Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Hen and chickens from Fiber Trends<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To-day is national Rubber Ducky Day<\/a>. The link is actually to last year’s listing – but things don’t change much in the world of rubber ducks. I’m really not sure why we need a day to celebrate a bath toy – but it is a toy with staying power. Maybe in the depths of bitterly cold January we need a spot of yellow to lighten the mood.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I don’t have any patterns for knitted ducks. I have patterns for knitted felted chickens, which look a little like rubber ducks. I also have a pattern for mittens that look like ducks, would that help? Then, of course there is Lucy Neatby’s duck sweater that I have posted before. But we’re not talking rubber ducks here, we’re talking mathematical ducks with a serious academic side to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Barnyard Mittens II from Infiknit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There are sites that will customize rubber ducks for you. Put your logo on a few, that is. I’ll bet that there is even a very large inflatable duck to be had some where, if you wanted to do a promotion or something.  How about 10 or 20% off everything in the store that is yellow.  Could you hide a few rubber ducks in your store and when they are found take a certain percentage off the finder’s purchase?  Maybe you could even make this a “flash” event on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Duck Sweater fro Lucy Neatby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There is also a popular song that goes with the duck.  It actually made it to #16 on the charts back in the 70’s – you remember – “Rubber Ducky, you’re the one…. “. Please post to my Facebook, if you happen to be somewhere there is a rubber duck “happening.”<\/p>\n

Dinner – nothing with wings or Foie Gras – and the best that I can think of is fried eggs – sunny side up.  I’ll try to be a little more creative tomorrow. Oh and btw, I missed chocolate covered cherry day and I have a pattern from Heartstrings for socks and matching fingerless mittens for that day – next year!  Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hen and chickens from Fiber Trends To-day is national Rubber Ducky Day. The link is actually to last year’s listing – but things don’t change much in the world of rubber ducks. I’m really not sure why we need a day to celebrate a bath toy – but it is a toy with staying power. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}