i can’t see very far out on the lake now because it’s raining so hard. we’re supposed to have VERY SEVERE WEATHER all day and tonight, but i hope we don’t have any tornadoes because we CAN’T CANCEL REHEARSALS! there aren’t very many more nights left before the show opens.
i found some photos on my phone that i took so long ago. there are from April 8th, when there were many white pelicans out on the water.
and then they flew away…
for a while this lone pelican was swimming all around by us. amy kept a careful eye on it and she really wanted to adopt it, but i think it has gone away now.
the other day we had a LOT OF EXCITEMENT…mom and dad came over and said there were COPS EVERYWHERE – six of them with guns drawn on the road between our house and theirs, cops all over the place…there was one at the entrance to our lane, and after a while, a police helicopter started circling around.
some guy from ohio had skipped his parole, stolen a car, and for some reason decided to…go to the walmart near us. i guess somebody spotted him in the walmart parking lot, and then apparently the cops chased him, and he crashed his car on the road by the university, and then he was running through the wood…THE WOODS WHERE WE WALK WITH MOLLIE ALL THE TIME!
it went on for a couple hours, and then we heard they’d let loose the dogs and kevin said he didn’t have much time now. he said that the dog would track him and when he caught him, he wouldn’t let go.
and kevin was right, of course…they caught the guy in the field right next to mom and dad’s subdivision. mom, meanwhile, had been STANDING OUT IN HER FRONT YARD, trying to see what was going on. when i realized this i said GO INSIDE RIGHT NOW. she would have been a prime hostage candidate, a petite and stylish older lady out there by herself.
luckily they caught the guy, and we’ve heard that his crime was stealing 10 guns, so that doesn’t sound so good, does it? i felt a little sorry for him when they showed him being loaded into the back of the ambulance on a stretcher with a big brace around his neck. kevin, who has no sympathy for bad people, said they always did that so the prisoner couldn’t claim whiplash on the ride to the hospital.
anyway, it was a whole lot of excitement around our usually very quite little area. yesterday we went walking with mollie through the field where the helicopter had touched down, and we found a couple of places where it musta burned big holes in the grass. we also found a white boat bumper, which we brought home. i guessed that for some reason they had the boat bumper in the helicopter, or maybe the guy had stolen the bumper and threw it at the dogs when they were chasing him, but somebody suggested that maybe it had fallen off of somebody’s boat when they were driving down the road, and the strong winds blew it in the middle of the field.
jim had been listening to the whole thing on somebody’s iphone at work; the person had a police scanner on it. i bet it was an app, because APPS ARE EVERYWHERE. anyway, he said that on the scanner the police were concerned that the guy was going to make it to the water and then could swim away. WOULDN’T HE HAVE GOTTEN HYPOTHERMIA??? two guys just died because they’d fallen out of their fishing boat into the water.
when all the drama was unfolding, we were babysitting numie and noodle. numie was ready for anything, but mostly he was really excited cause there were TWO ORANGE BALLS in the bed with him.
he forgot all about the lurking menace of the escaped guy because THERE WERE CHEERIOS IN THOSE BALLS!
the whole thing just wore noodle out.
ok then,
mrs. friday waiting around for more tornadoes and huge hail hughes.