Don't Do It!

    Anyone care to explain why the ducks geese in my town tend to hang around on the edge of the waterfall?  There was a whole line of them just standing there watching the cars drive by, but when I stopped and got out to snap a picture, as you can see, some of them paddled off. 

    It's somewhat freaky driving by there to see a bunch of ducks geese just hanging on the edge like a crew of construction workers.  But, you'd think with the slippery rocks and rushing water, it'd be kind of hard for them to stand there.

    By the way, when I was a kid, I used to jump off the bridge where this picture was taken.  Back in the day before global-warming, when it froze, they used to clear the ice and plow the snow over the edge so people could skate.  So, a bunch of us kids would stand on the bridge and leap to our potential demise (supervision?  What supervision?!?).  Eventually, the snow would get packed down as a result of us jumping on it, and when someone screamed about a broken leg, a dislocated knee or some other crippling injury, we knew then that the jumping wasn't safe and we sauntered over to the lodge for some watered-down hot chocolate.

    We also tried to send my twin brother over the waterfall in a barrel once, but we couldn't find a suitable barrel.  For a moment, however, there was talk of using a bucket over his head and just throwing him, but I think that idea was killed in committee, and we just settled for pushing him down the stairs when we got home. 

    Other than that, how was your weekend?  Did you do anything fun? 

-DP

*update*   I just noticed a bit of a weird coincidence.  There are seven ducks geese there, and I grew up in a family of seven boys.  Maybe those ducks geese were trying to figure out how to go about throwing the small one over the edge?

Tags: Duck Motif, Oak Creek Lagoon, Grant Park, Childhood Adrenaline Junies