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Saying for the Day
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. ~Lewis Carroll

Picture of the Day

Sometimes I think of the weirdest things. I don’t know why I just do.

Last week I did a little blog on Mighty Mouse.
Well it wasn’t really about Mighty Mouse it was about a mouse chewing up an electrical wire and causing a fire that killed one hundred cats.
In a cartoon that would be funny but in real life it was tragic.
That got me to thinking of how we portray things in cartoons.
Mice are almost always the good guys. Think of Disney’s Cinderella.
Cats are almost always bad guys. Think again of Disney’s Cinderella.
Mice in cartoons are cute, loveable, kind, heroic, just filled with virtue.
Cats are mean, selfish, sneaky, and usually up to no good.
Mice are always smarter than cats.
Why have we done that?
It’s the exact opposite to real life.
In real life the last thing I want in my house is a mouse.
I do not see mice as cute. They destroy food and carry disease.
I will set out traps and poison to be rid of them.
Cats on the other hand have a certain charm.
They are individuals .
They can love you or ignore you.
They can save you from the mouse.
How did our imaginary world get so far away from our real one ?
I just don’t know.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal.
Pastor Joan is back to work remembering nothing about Oops at all. She is supposed to get her annual physical today and is scheduled for the usual barrage of tests over at the lab before going to the clinic.
Herman has signed up for the Synod’s Lay School of Theology and will be going to class once a week. He wants to find ways he can serve in the Church.
Mrs. Trumble is healing from the bruises and such she got from her encounter with the demon. Her demon slayer with its melted barrel is laying on her desk.
Petrovich is back to translating driblets. He is looking for one that might have to do with Pigeon Falls.
The dragons are back flying over once a day. Mother dragon doesn’t seem to have sustained any permanent damage from her battle.
Nancy’s poltergeist is juggling valentine hearts , though nobody knows where it got them. It doesn’t seem to have any problems from losing to the demon.
So Pigeon Falls is pretty much back to normal.
Except for Tommy UK who is still confused and hasn’t talked to anybody. He simply doesn’t remember getting that rock or even that he had it and yet he used it to help power Herman. If he had known about it he would have used it to save the whale but then he didn’t have to. Since he and Tammy are in one of their non talking times he can’t talk to her about it. He hates to bother Mrs. Trumble while she is recovering and so he has nowhere to turn.

Wrap UP

It got up to fifty degrees today. Snow in the back yard is starting to melt. Spring is coming. In the morning I worked at getting blogs ready to print out from November. That takes up some time. In the afternoon we worked on the layout. We put the last little things on the lake module. Then we tested our new Lionel aquarium car. I loved it. Then we started plastering. That looks like a two or three day job. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA

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