Kathy and the kids met me at Harland at 5 pm. They brought a picnic and some clothes for me to change into. It was the nicest day of spring so far, so we drove out to the monastery in Conyers for a picnic dinner by the lake.

Several geese, ducks, and squirrels greeted us. Otherwise it was very quiet. The ducks actually jumped up on the backs of the picnic table benches to investigate what kind of goodies we had. Both Danny and Nicole fed them multi-grain crackers.

They didn’t like potato salad.

Kathy came within 3 inches of having a squirrel take a cracker from her hand. But the greedy ducks frightened him away.