Return

My initial visual inspection of the Saratoga Animal Shelter after my return from my weekend jaunt to Portland for a wedding has resulted in no immediate dead or near dead animals. (That discounts the body of the bird which is by the pool filter. I've not decided how to get it because it's where a shovel won't fit and I don't know how to pick it up without actually picking it up.) I was a bit concerned because the Big Guy (in charge of taking care of the Shelter in my stead) said that he thought he saw Mr. or Ms. Squirrel run up into the dryer vent and so "you might want to turn on the dryer and flush it out." I cross examined the Big Guy several times to see if EDub was fine. He's a hostile witness because he never wants to answer a question directly so you have to go at it from several different angles. I have been forced to yell out on many occasions, "Objection-non reponsive!" in order to get him to just say yes or no to even the simplest questions like those I asked today: "So was she limping?" "Was she fine?" "Was she walking?" "Really, she wasn't limping?" "Are you sure she wasn't favoring one leg?" He said, "I didn't see her limping. She's fine." Whatever. Either the Big Guy is color blind and can't tell black from white or he smokes crack cocaine because EDub has a very noticeable limp. Still. All members of the Pack are fine, though there is what I suspect is blood on the brick on top of the duck food container. So either a) the Big Guy with his paper thin skin cut himself and didn't tell me because he didn't want my mom to know or b) Mr. or Ms. Squirrel was injured trying to bust into the duck food container. I've already put a call out to CSI Stokes to get him out here for testing.

I read my first e-book on my trip and I loved it! I read Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child, another Jack Reacher novel and I picked it because I knew it would be interesting and easy to read on the plane. And it was. Now I'm reading Alice in Wonderland, so I can feel like I'm trippin on drugs without actually taking them. Also it's for book club.