We had a visitor to our pool today.  This lady duck quack-quack-quacked as loud as a car alarm, rousing us out of our mid-afternoon stupor and luring us to the window.  After a few more quacking jags (the duck not us), we saw a male whizzing by in the distance.  It wasn't too long until he came splashing into the pool in a one-large-point landing.  Senorita duck immediately took off, as if to say -- hey!  Fly faster and keep up!  He followed, looking sheepish, which is hard for a duck.  End of distraction.

I promise that hardly any of my subsequent posts will be this cutesy.