I recently took a tour of the Wood Lake Wildlife Center with 7 year old Jojo who talked the entire time.  He educated me about owls who won't eat dead mice (they like to kill their own), and about vultures (who he says we must respect) who can eat dead mice because they have a very high concentration of stomach acid that prevents them from getting sick from the bacteria in dead animals.  Wow.  I didn't know that.

I once worked with a fabulous woman, named Bea Brown, who said if you can't remember, or don't know, the details of a subject while giving a lecture, just make something up.  She laughed then, so I knew she was kidding.  I think.  At any rate, I believe Jojo may have graduated from the Bea Brown School of Oratory, because he also advised me that frog season was over, but it is still toad season in southern Minnesota.  Really?

One thing we both agreed on was this.  The boardwalk across the lake was plastered with duck poop.  And that's no lie.