Our mail carrier dropped off a letter with an address that wasn't ours
(the house number was a permutation of the digits of our house number),
so Dan went and took it over to the right house. Turns out the newest
neighbors on the street (who have been here for a few months, anyway)
are a household headed by a detective who works for the Austin PD. And
he and Dan got to talking about our cars, and the inevitable narc
thing. (Dan driving around in his old police car looks an awful lot
like a narc, it can be really amusing at times.)
Oh, and the neighbor that Dan's most friendly with came over on the
weekend to help Dan dispose of a snake. Turned out to just be a rat
snake, and it probably wouldn't have messed with our dogs, but Dan
didn't want to take any chances. (He doesn't know how to identify a
rattler by sight, and assumes that all snakes are dangerous. I can
recognize some snakes as harmless, and he'll leave the little ones be on
my say-so.) It was over 5' long. I hope the vultures find it to be
reasonably good eating. (But anything that will eat a dead skunk can't
be *that* picky.)
Julia
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