It's been a heck of a week. I'm so dang tired on a number of levels. Rather than complaining, though, let me entertain you.
Wednesday morning, 3:30am. Her Highness woke us with a loud "YOWWWWL. ROWRRRRL." I got up to see what was going on. We had suspected a mouse invasion, and indeed Portia had caught and killed the mouse. She wanted parental approval. I praised her, and watched her fling it up in the air and catch it. She eventually flung it into my bathroom. I figured if she dispatched it there, it would be much neater than on carpet. And that's what she did. She's stayed parked where she can watch underneath the stove since then. Just in case.
And this afternoon, I had to evict a library patron. That is, if you consider a garter snake a patron. It appeared near a workstation -- beside the foot of one of my student assistants. We called appropriate personnel and one of the student workers put a recycling bin over it. The snake wound up being transferred to an empty margarine container and will go home with someone. I took a few photos (head or tail sticking out from underneath its prison) but you can't really see much.
I'm almost afraid to ponder what might appear next!
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