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WFC question
Oct. 17th, 2005 07:25 pmDo you get your schedule ahead of time, like Worldcon? Or do you find out what you're doing when you check in?
Oct. 17th, 2005
I hear a sound like the rustle of paper outside the front door. Mickey perks up and stares at the door. I get up and turn on the outside light to find two raccoons climbing the pine tree that stands about 6 feet or so from my front door. King is outside, and I think he's the reason they went up the tree in the first place--he's separated from them by twenty or so feet and a fence, but he has this bark that tends to freeze things in their tracks, and they must be able to smell him.
Masked faces stare at the light for a time. Then the raccoons go up the tree. Realize after a while that they're too big to hop across to overlapping branches on other trees, and start back down. I notice that one of them is having a harder time than the other working its way down, then see that it's because it's missing its right hind leg. Then it stops to look at me, and I see it's missing its right ear as well. Either it was in a heck of a battle--we do have coyotes here--or it was born that way. I caught sight of what may have been an end of a leg bone as it struggled down to the ground, but it may have been a deformed foot as well. Can an animal survive with an end of exposed bone? It seemed healthy and vigorous otherwise, and the leg did appear healed over except for that little round of white.
Anyway, they both got down to the ground and trundled off toward the woods. King woofed at them, which seemed to spook them--one shot back up the tree, then made its way down again and took off.
Masked faces stare at the light for a time. Then the raccoons go up the tree. Realize after a while that they're too big to hop across to overlapping branches on other trees, and start back down. I notice that one of them is having a harder time than the other working its way down, then see that it's because it's missing its right hind leg. Then it stops to look at me, and I see it's missing its right ear as well. Either it was in a heck of a battle--we do have coyotes here--or it was born that way. I caught sight of what may have been an end of a leg bone as it struggled down to the ground, but it may have been a deformed foot as well. Can an animal survive with an end of exposed bone? It seemed healthy and vigorous otherwise, and the leg did appear healed over except for that little round of white.
Anyway, they both got down to the ground and trundled off toward the woods. King woofed at them, which seemed to spook them--one shot back up the tree, then made its way down again and took off.
I hear a sound like the rustle of paper outside the front door. Mickey perks up and stares at the door. I get up and turn on the outside light to find two raccoons climbing the pine tree that stands about 6 feet or so from my front door. King is outside, and I think he's the reason they went up the tree in the first place--he's separated from them by twenty or so feet and a fence, but he has this bark that tends to freeze things in their tracks, and they must be able to smell him.
Masked faces stare at the light for a time. Then the raccoons go up the tree. Realize after a while that they're too big to hop across to overlapping branches on other trees, and start back down. I notice that one of them is having a harder time than the other working its way down, then see that it's because it's missing its right hind leg. Then it stops to look at me, and I see it's missing its right ear as well. Either it was in a heck of a battle--we do have coyotes here--or it was born that way. I caught sight of what may have been an end of a leg bone as it struggled down to the ground, but it may have been a deformed foot as well. Can an animal survive with an end of exposed bone? It seemed healthy and vigorous otherwise, and the leg did appear healed over except for that little round of white.
Anyway, they both got down to the ground and trundled off toward the woods. King woofed at them, which seemed to spook them--one shot back up the tree, then made its way down again and took off.
Masked faces stare at the light for a time. Then the raccoons go up the tree. Realize after a while that they're too big to hop across to overlapping branches on other trees, and start back down. I notice that one of them is having a harder time than the other working its way down, then see that it's because it's missing its right hind leg. Then it stops to look at me, and I see it's missing its right ear as well. Either it was in a heck of a battle--we do have coyotes here--or it was born that way. I caught sight of what may have been an end of a leg bone as it struggled down to the ground, but it may have been a deformed foot as well. Can an animal survive with an end of exposed bone? It seemed healthy and vigorous otherwise, and the leg did appear healed over except for that little round of white.
Anyway, they both got down to the ground and trundled off toward the woods. King woofed at them, which seemed to spook them--one shot back up the tree, then made its way down again and took off.