Saturday, May 10, 2014

Missisquoi Wildlife Refuge


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  1. Clear scans are Number One today! (Well, every day, actually.) Thank goodness for the human mind's propensity to selectively forget the really rough stuff. I have only a vague, mostly intellectual, recollection of what I went through during my medical adventures four and five years back, but there are little mental snapshots that make me realize it must have been a good deal worse than I remember. My oncologist says that is typical. And I have heard that people who have terrible burns have little recollection of the incident, or even none at all. Out of idle curiosity, is it positron emission tomography (PET) scans Ally is getting?

    --Alan

    P.S.: Grandfather clock installed, vestibule cleaned up and furniture put back in place, just some packing material to take to the garage and some to put into the recycling bin.

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    1. P.P.S.: I look forward to hearing about the mountain lion when we have lunch with Naomi tomorrow (Saturday).

      --Alan

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  2. The mountain lion was apprehended directly across the street from Naomi’s apartment house. It ran into a gated parking area, the police closed the gate, and a game warden shot it with a tranquilizer dart. It was then relocated to an open area it had come from, on the other side of the freeway from the city.

    —Alan

    And now off to San Jose for lunch with Naomi and some shopping. We will pick up a half-box of fresh strawberries before we hit the road.

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  3. Naomi came home from work to find aout twenty police cars, a couple of game wardens, a TV camera crew and a large crowd on her street. Asking what was going on, she was incredulous to hear there was a mountain lion in the gated parking lot across the street, and being au courrant she checked Twitter and sure enough it was so! She took some photos with her iPad.

    It was very windy on the way home this afternoon, and the wind picked up a lot of dust from dry, plowed and unplanted fields. There was one place where I had to slow down to about twenty or thirty miles per hour because of heavy dust blowing across the road. (Maybe someone was plowing to windward?) I knew there was no one close behind me, and we got out of it quickly, thank goodness. (Looking ahead before we hit it, I figured as much.) It seems crazy to plow fields and prepare them for planting when there is no water for a crop; but the insurance companies require it before they will pay the crop insurance claims for loss due to drought.

    --Alan

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  4. Wowser! So not only was it on Naomi's street, but right across the street from her home, and taking place while she was present! That's a parental nightmare, but fortunately all was well…!!

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