Thursday, November 12, 2009

La Madre, the Grande Dame, is back home after a week in the hospital. Rob and I picked her up yesterday and she seems eager to walk normally again.

I've known Jen since we were five or six years old. Coincidentally she works at the hospital, so she was our inside gal and made things very easy for us out-of-staters. She is also Andre's biggest fan.


Best thing about the hospital? The food was cheap! $2.50 for a cheeseburger, which was flame broiled? Yes, please.


In a few weeks this guy may come and stay with La Madre to help make sure she gets up and about. His name is Seamus. Maybe he can do something about the giant (read: 50 pound) raccoons that have always lived in our yard. True story: On Sunday evening I left a large, plastic jar of cat food in the laundry room. Yesterday, the jar was not only open, but completely empty. The raccoons, with their opposable thumbs, opened the jar and ate all the cat food. Their species in evolving, I tell ya.