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mouse at the Tibetan Center
Sunday, September 18 2016
Because he's still recovering after being hit by a car, Neville didn't get to go with Gretchen when she did her shift at the Golden Notebook today.
I painted a tiny painting of him recuperating on the bed with the moral support of his siblings: Clarence the Cat and Ramona (the black blob in the back).
Later, though, Neville rode along with me and Ramona when I went on a mostly-pointless drive to the Tibetan Center thrift store. I'd kind of wanted to go there yesterday but decided to go today instead. Unfortunately, the only thing I found to buy was a stretchy neoprene hose thing designed as some sort of resistance trainer. I figured I could use that hose to make or repair slingshots. I was also somewhat tempted by a small handheld vacuum cleaner designed to be powered by a car's 12 volt system. I might've bought it, but it was missing the rotating brush assembly (a lot of things at the Tibetan Center are missing important pieces). Instead of that, at the bottom of the box I found some chewed up paper and a terrified mother deer mouse with several half-grown babies. Afer removing the vacuum cleaner, I put the box down on an easy-to-overlook lower shelf so the mouse family could collect their wits and decide what to do next.
This evening I made a big pot of fancy pasta while sizzling up some tempeh and onions. Gretchen showed up late in the process, adding lemon juice and other mysteries to the sauce to make one that contained no tomato, faux cheese, or even cream. It was a little too lemony, but delicious nonetheless.
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