Every spring, ducks everywhere make nests, lay their eggs, and tend to the nest until their offspring hatch. This may have happened in your backyard. It is nature at its best. This usually happens often unnoticed and is rather uneventful. But not when the duck chooses the front yard of my sister. Kathy took it upon herself to see to the safety and well-being of the duck she named Molly and her ducklings once they hatched. And so it begins one spring day.