Rethinking Our Potential Criminal Activities

 Brain cancer is...

...loving our neighbor!

We met our new neighbor, Karla, shortly before COVID came and shut us all down.  We've been trading produce and Easter candy on each other's porches for months.  Above are the beautiful pomegranates Karla left for us today.  Lovely!

 

Today's story is about Karla and her family, but not about the pomegranates.  It goes back a few turns, so bear with us.

 

• A week or so ago, we heard on our favorite show (you know, Forensic Files) a detective say:  "Your friends will help you move.  Your family will help you move a body."  

•  For sure it's true about our families, which are fabulous, but we think our friends would help us move a body too.  We've been surveying people just to check.  Thus far we can state that we have several friends who would help us move a body.  So moving bodies has been our minds.

• This is where Karla's family comes in.  We also know Karla's dad, Ken, from conversations about the houses and collaborating to build a shared fence (You remember, here). 

• The other day, Skelly needed to ride in the trunk to get to Gordon's house for breakfast.  It's not ideal, but his oxygen needs are low, so we did what we needed to do.  I was lovingly placing him in the trunk when I happened to look up.  There, masked and staring, was Ken.  I was caught.  I felt so guilty.  All I could say was, "Pay no attention to the dead body I'm shoving into my trunk." 

•  As Karla and a friend joined Ken, I could think of no glib turn of phrase that would make the situation better.  This choice certainly didn't help:  "We take him everywhere, pose him, and take pictures of him!  It's so cute!"  There's no way out of a situation like that. 

•  If I feel guilty about making a skeleton riding in the trunk--and if I can't do even that without getting caught, Darrell and I probably need to rethink our potential criminal activities.  But you'd still help, right?

 

Fire Updates

The Blue Ridge and Silverado fires near us have together burned 28,000 acres.  One is 0% contained, the other is 5% contained.  Our best to families (Quinns!) that have evacuated or are at risk. Our best, too, to the people working to extinguish the fires.

Today's Blooms

The alstroemeria we bought to decorate when Meridyth was here have one more day. Well done.