We love to walk around the beautiful "Ivy League" like campus at New Mexico Tech, right up the street from Sandra's condo. There's a nice pond and lots of trees there. Over the holidays it got quite cold...well at least for New Mexico and all the students were gone on break.
Left behind to fend for themselves were hundreds of beautiful little Widgeon ducks (They whistle instead of quacking) and dozens of other domestic ducks and geese either abandoned by owners or just lost and looking for a safe haven. We brought up 25 pound bags of feed every day and almost emptied them every day. The big guys especially were mobbing us and followed us almost to the car making a real racket when we ran out. It's been down in the low teens again this week, but at least the students are back and we find big empty boxes of Cheerios in the cans around the pond, so someone else cares too.
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