Thursday, July 28, 2005

Possum trapped in vine


Possum trapped in vine
Originally uploaded by ragde2507.
It's been kind of a strange day. Started out being rather agro & grumpy (some guy was driving 45 in a 70 zone in front of me for most of the way to work). Boss didn't come in because both him & wife are sick (different sickness). Heard that we're in the red so we can't really afford to buy some new but rather expensive ($8K, ouch) data that would be really useful. Couldn't find some other data that I needed on server (probably lost during the big crash 3 months prior). Home late 'cos needed to do groceries. It was about dinner time when the dog started barking at the trumpet vines at the backyard. So we roped him in to the garage. Let him out 10:30-ish after LOST and Amazing Race, but he was still barking at the same spot. So I sent my brother out to check it out while I proceeded to do my own work. That's when we found out this possum was trapped in between the vines. Called WIRES (rescue service) but the volunteers won't respond until business hrs tomorrow. Parents came home & after a bit of looking & poking (literally) about we concluded that the possum had, alas, passed on. More poking around before the possum was finally released from the vines & bagged. Poor little thing. What a sad end to the night.

Crap, dog still barking. Can't be another 1 can it?

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