We are back home in Kodiak having arrived yesterday, April 2. The enclosed photos show better than any lengthy lamenting what awaited us: snow everywhere and more coming down. Bill's truck may not be uncovered for another week or two. What I cannot show in photos is what else awaited us: the aftermath of the starvation of a deer in one of the downstairs bedrooms. We can only guess that the deer was being chased by dogs and crashed into the window much as a bird does when seeing the reflection in the glass. The window was a double-paned one in the laundry room. The poor animal fell to the carpet floor with some injury but not enough to kill it. It then proceeded to wander through the three downstairs bedrooms even sleeping on two of the beds at various times and drinking out of the toilet. Alas, there was nary a houseplant for it to munch and it eventually died. The smell is what alerted daughters Anne and Katie when they came to check on things. Anne called the state troopers to haul the poor thing away. It must have been an extremely nasty chore but one of the troopers at least was pretty taken with the novelty of the event. I'm getting a bit of mirth from the insurance adjusters also. Katie's blog at www.oliverkodiak.blogspot.com has photos of the broken window and the carpeting layered with deer droppings. She opted not to show photos of the poor deer.
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