Daisy Ducky Pin from Disneyland

Name: Daisy Ducky
Interests: Shopping and being an angel.
Where to Find: Disneyland
Brand: Walt Disney
Price: Unknown

Don’t believe Donald. I am always an angel.

My first real job while I was still finishing my Professional Writing degree was as a Junior Technical Writer at a software company. I had a great manager who had a great sense of humour. He went to Disneyland for vacation with his family and brought back pins for everyone in the office (we had small team). He tried to buy pins that suited people’s personalities. I was 20 when I started the job so I was the youngest person in the office. Since I collect rubber ducks and everyone thought I was pretty naive and innocent, I received the “Good Girl” angel Daisy Ducky.

Daisy Ducky is wearing bell bottom jeans with green platform shoes and a green belly shirt. She also has a green bow in her hair too. She is wearing purple eye shadow and has a halo above her head. Her golden angel wings are also fluttering.

Dr. Quack from Rubba Ducks

Name: Dr. Quack Ducky
Interests: I like delivering babies and jogging to stay fit.
Where to Find: Discontinued.
Brand: Rubba Duck
Price: $9.95 Cdn

Who wouldn’t trust a doctor named Dr. Quack?

Dr. Quack was hatched on March 20, 2012. He shares one of my best friend’s birthdays. He has a picture of a doctor’s symbol on his bum. It took me a long time to figure out what this symbol was. I thought it was some kind of angel. I asked my husband and since he is the smartest man alive, he was correct at interpreting the symbol.

Dr. Quack has a headlamp around his head, a stethoscope around his neck and is dressed very nice. He has a blue dress shirt and red tie under his white coat. He looks like a very friendly doctor.

I agree with Dr. Quack’s philosophy below.

Poem on his tag:

“The doctor is in!
And, house calls are my speciality.

Your Health Plan?
a positive attitude
a well balanced diet
and plenty of exercise

Now say AAHHH...”

Pop Ducky from Bud

Name: Pop Ducky
Interests: Keeping up with the latest trends and news.
Where to Find: http://www.budducks.com/
Brand: Bud

Price: $10.95 Cdn

A patchwork quilt.

Pop Ducky’s box says “Give me my 15 minutes of fame.” The box also shows many different colours of ducks with many different coloured backgrounds. At first I thought this ducky was pop culture ducky, but then I did a bit of research because I was having trouble seeing the deeper meaning of this duck. Is he famous? Who said this line? I couldn’t dig anything up on this. Any ideas? Perhaps, he is just a cool colourful ducky.

Pop Ducky has yellow, mint, burgundy, mauve, blue and orange squares all over his body. He reminds me of a patchwork quilt. He was rather inexpensive for a Bud duck because he was one of the first Bud ducks that I bought (quite a few years ago). He comes in the old cardboard Bud box with the big plastic bubble at the front of the box. The boxes are now a lot smaller and made of plastic.

Fire Ducky from Edmonton

Name: Fire Ducky
Interests: Racing any type of vehicle.
Where to Find: Vending Machine at Cineplex Odeon North Edmonton
Brand: Eye Poppers by Krazy Town
Price: $2.00 Cdn

Faster than fire.

Fire Ducky has a base colour (spelled the Canadian way even on an American holiday) of black and has white eyes and a white beak. His wings are in the shape of fire and are orange, red and yellow.

In addition to racing cars, bike, quads and snowmobiles, this ducky is a bit of a pyromaniac. He always has a set of matches in his pocket and has set too many things on fire to count.

Clippy Ducky from Dollarama

Name: Clippy Ducky
Interests: Keeping your chips fresh and other snacks too.
Where to Find: Dollarama
Brand: Unknown
Price: $1.25 Cdn for 6

Barnyard life.

Clippy Ducky is not to be confused with Clippy from Microsoft Word. Remember him? I couldn’t resist picking up a 6 pack of these bag clips. While I was camping with my friend on the weekend (who also collects ducks), I noticed that she has the same bag clips.

Clippy Ducky looks like a typical rubber ducky except that he has a spring holding him together.

Snowman Ducky from B.C.

Name: Snowman Ducky
Interests: Enduring freezing wind and blowing snow in -30 C (which is almost any Winter day in Edmonton)
Where to Find: New Denver, B.C.
Brand: Oriental Trading Company
Price: $1.00 Cdn

Hanging around.

My husband found this ducky for me in a small town in BC. He was there on his annual motorcycle trip with his dad.The lady who owned the store hangs ducks on her Christmas tree every year and so do we. I know it’s odd to talk about an xmas ducky in the off season (and normally I would never approve), but many stores have Christmas in July sales. After all it is the 7th month so we are closer to the next Christmas than the last Christmas.

Snowman Ducky is all white but is wearing a navy blue striped toque and scarf. He also has 3 black buttons on his chest and black beady eyes. His beak is carrot orange.

Edmonton Oilers Ducky

Name: Edmonton Oilers Ducky
Interests: Hockey, hockey and more hockey.
Where to Find: Sports Stores
Brand: J.F. Sports Canada
Price: Unknown it was gift.

Ducky shoots. Ducky scores.

Canada is a 145 years old today. Happy Birthday Canada! I usually watch the fireworks every year, but this year we are camping with friends for Canada Day. There will still be fireworks around the campsite. One year we went to Sylvan Lake for Canada Day and set off fireworks on the beach. My husband accidentally dropped a firework in the lake but it still went off and lit up the lake. It was pretty cool.

Edmonton Oilers Ducky isn’t the ducky that I planned on featuring for Canada day but I can’t find my other Canadian Hockey ducky anywhere and I searched through my 7 bins of ducks. I will find him for next Canada Day for sure. He must be hiding.

Edmonton Oilers Ducky is still in his original packaging. He has a dumb-struck look on his face and an extra wide beak (probably from too many pucks hitting his beak). His helmet is a little small but his jersey fits well and he has quite the curly tail.