I've got a theory

[flea]

mr. flea reported seeing rabbits in the yard TWICE yesterday, so it was with great fear that I ventured out to check the garden. But maybe they were just reconnaissance rabbits, since everything looks uneaten (except the lettuces, but that is clearly the work of slugs). Where are Wallace and Gromit when I need them?

In bad news, a neighbor is dying - a very fit, outdoorsy man of perhaps 60, who fell and fractured his skull in what was either a freak domestic accident or possibly caused by a stroke. Wife and Son A were in Paris (she's a French professor) and Son B was also away (sons are college-age). We are told to expect a funeral at the end of the week, though as of last night he was technically alive. I suppose this and the landlady's cancer are balanced by the 5 healthy babies under 3 years old, plus 3 more expected this summer, on our one block, but I'm not feeling very Circle of Life about it, just sad.

Comments

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

I think all the bunnies in my neighborhood are off buying sump pumps for their burrows.

That's a shame about your neighbor.

[gchick.livejournal.com]

I know wife and son of neighbor - although not the man himself - and I was very sorry to hear about his fall. Strangely enough, I know a couple of other fell-and-hit-their-heads cases lately as well: one is in an apparently permanent coma, while the other popped out of bed and went home in spite of brain injuries that should've been much worse. Mysterious things, heads.

No bunnies yet over our way, and we usually have them by the dozens. You can send them along, since we have no tender veg for them to terrorize, and like having them around.