The Launch of Pato Palace

Yesterday after lunch we had a duck house launching party. A procession carried the duck house and tools out to the pond. The flotation system was attached to the bottom of the structure. It was christened Pato Palace, champagne was drunk. The house was set afloat and hauled to a floating bottle (attached by rope to the end of the microhydro system pipe) so it would be in the middle of the pond away from marauding critters. The ducks had watched the whole thing, not only the launch but the construction over at the workshop. They checkout Pato Palace after it was tied in and circled it a few times before entering.