Hi Tweeters!

Again I'm deprived! No dive bombing Gray Jays and Clark's Nutcrackers on
my Mountaineers hike to Mowich Lake......Still LOTS of snow up there. It
was a very gray, bleak, rainy day up there. We ate lunch on the porch of
the Ranger Cabin overlooking the foggy lake. The Avalanche Lillies were
lovely and blooming where ever the ground was free of snow.

On our way back, somewhere near Buckley a large dark fur ball crossed the
road in front of us. This fur ball looked like the pics of the
APLODONTIA one of our fellow Tweeties posted. It looked like a very
rounded Guinea Pig with very small eyes and ears, and no tail.

At the 410 Cafe we discussed the fur ball which apparently tried to cross
the road several other times causing other cars to swerve to avoid it. I
think it was a small APLODONTIA, some of the others in the group thought
it was a vole or mole. But those small furries have tails. Nobody in
the group had heard of Aplodontia before. Some wise guy thought is was
something a dentist stuck in a toothy kid's mouth to straighten teeth.

Well, WAS IT A YOUNG APLODONTIA, all lost and disoriented? Or one of
those wild and dangerous feral Guinea Pigs?

Maybe NEXT week when I take a group up to Glacier Basin on Mt. Rainier
I'll get to see those crazy jays again.

Have a great week!

Lydia In Kent,
Soon to make a cross platform and ISP migration

Lydia Gaebe In Kent, WA/lydia at wizards.net
Support the Independent Musician!
Pete Tomack's STEEL AND GLASS now available!
www.wizards.net/tomackandeastwind
"Moonlight Quiet" appearing on Oasis Sampler Vol. 10