I should have been paying more attention and celebrated the 1000th entry.

Addendum to previous weekend report: we went to the arboretum to look at the waterfowl last Saturday as well after leaving the garden store. We did not feed the waterfowl because that is bad for everyone involved. Although we did see a poor male mallard with only one leg. He looked very sad while paddling, and hard a hard time hopping on land. Fortunately for him he could still fly well enough. The other mallard were not nice to him, though. We did feed him a few of Lonan Kai’s graham crackers.

Lonan Kai was very fearful of the ducks at first. One female mallard who has clearly been fed a lot waddled right up to us and eyed the crackers in LK’s hands very greedily. He did not appreciate the attention, but later watched them curiously.