January 10, 2009

Sat night I wrote that the AA speaker had a dry sense of humor and a reader responded.

Reader Response:
Well, of course, it's a dry sense of humor! He's been sober for how many years

Changed alarm to 9:30 to make it to church. I must hurry.

Well, I was late fore church. I planned to sit in back but the back pews were full.
Had lunch at the round table with Ron & Beverly, Bette, Margie T, and a woman who sells eggs. Mark F was staying home resting. We missed him.

I came home and took dogs to park while it was warm altho I was desparately sleepy. Lots and lots of dogs there but none that we knew except Kevin whom Blitzen went over to hump. His owner says that Kevin humps; so turn aboutis fair play.

Blitzen's Tale
The bigdog park was full of big old busters. We had a lot of fun. They would come over and run a little and change off.

Lady Chica's tale
Yeah, we had a lot of fun. Lots and lots of big busters would run half a fence. There was this big old great dane as big as a pony.

I took a nap. I was tired. LC was so cute, all curled up in her cage. She likes to take naps there.

BOOK REVIEW
Nevada Barr, *Blind Descent* (1998)
A member of a surveying party has broken her leg in a deep cave. A team of park rangers is sent to extract her. (She will have to be carried out up and down cliffs.) The accident victim is a friend of Ann Pigeon. So Anna is sent down to be with her and stabalize her on the way out. Anna suffers from claustrophobia but bravely descends. On the way out an avalanche kills the victim. Anna is convinced that this was no accident.

Nevada Barr, *Blood Lure* (2001)
This is after Anna Pigeon has become a district ranger. She goes on a training course to Glacier National Park to track grizzly bears. Rangers with volunteers hang lures in open cages so that grizzlies will catch their hair on the wires. Then they analyze the DNA, as a means of taking a census of the bear population. Of course, Anna finds a body.

Hugs, Dr. Liz