There's something big and bright and yellow in a most unnaturally blue sky. Haven't seen that in a while. Also, how's it gonna rain without all those low gray clouds?
Lessee... what else? Still trying to think through possible reasons why my work for the past couple years might not be useful, and if there's anything to do about it without reopening the matter of trap-map generation. I've really forgotten the details of that, so it'd be a major effort to check that in any significant way.
And I'm feeling a bit out to pasture over the issue. There's some relief, I guess, but I also can't just let it go.
Critter tale... Last night I came home and Calcifer (4 or 5 year old orange cat, named for the fire demon in Howl's Moving Castle) was acting oddly. He seemed very skeptical about going up the stairs to his usual feeding station, and kept staring up the stairs as if he expected zombies or something at any moment. So I sat at the top of the stairs, and if I was right there, he'd eat. If I went somewhere else, he'd run away.
There's some sign of ongoing construction next door, so I figured maybe the noise had spooked him. He was very cuddly on Saturday when the roofers were over there.
This morning on the landing halfway up the stairs, I found... a dead rabbit.
I have a theory: It might be bunnies.
I think he probably caught it yesterday during the day, brought it in alive through the cat door, and it got away, proving to be more than he could handle easily. He caught up with it again in the night, though I didn't hear any sounds of fighting.
This reminds me of the time (I'm sure we diarized it at the time, but I'm not finding it) that Rocky, the 70-pound viszla hunting dog, would not go into his room at bedtime, because, as it turned out, there was a baby bunny hiding under the futon he slept on. Boosted in, we think, by a different cat. Apparently indoor bunnies are monsters.
Spring is springing. It's probably time to dig grass and mint out of the garden, see what the compost heap hath produced, and think about planting veggies. Typically the last frost is overwith before Memorial Day here, and that's a-coming right up.
Lessee... what else? Still trying to think through possible reasons why my work for the past couple years might not be useful, and if there's anything to do about it without reopening the matter of trap-map generation. I've really forgotten the details of that, so it'd be a major effort to check that in any significant way.
And I'm feeling a bit out to pasture over the issue. There's some relief, I guess, but I also can't just let it go.
Critter tale... Last night I came home and Calcifer (4 or 5 year old orange cat, named for the fire demon in Howl's Moving Castle) was acting oddly. He seemed very skeptical about going up the stairs to his usual feeding station, and kept staring up the stairs as if he expected zombies or something at any moment. So I sat at the top of the stairs, and if I was right there, he'd eat. If I went somewhere else, he'd run away.
There's some sign of ongoing construction next door, so I figured maybe the noise had spooked him. He was very cuddly on Saturday when the roofers were over there.
This morning on the landing halfway up the stairs, I found... a dead rabbit.
I have a theory: It might be bunnies.
I think he probably caught it yesterday during the day, brought it in alive through the cat door, and it got away, proving to be more than he could handle easily. He caught up with it again in the night, though I didn't hear any sounds of fighting.
This reminds me of the time (I'm sure we diarized it at the time, but I'm not finding it) that Rocky, the 70-pound viszla hunting dog, would not go into his room at bedtime, because, as it turned out, there was a baby bunny hiding under the futon he slept on. Boosted in, we think, by a different cat. Apparently indoor bunnies are monsters.
Spring is springing. It's probably time to dig grass and mint out of the garden, see what the compost heap hath produced, and think about planting veggies. Typically the last frost is overwith before Memorial Day here, and that's a-coming right up.
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