Today Mama Fox showed us her family. Normally she has had two pups or kits whatever they are called. Today she had four little ones nursing. Now we know why she looked so gaunt. She has them living under the play/storage house that Mark built for Ashley before they first went to Japan and stored the house in our backyard. We had not seen her around the house before.

On a literary note, Lou has been reading all of Sandra Scofield's novels and while she was waiting for me in the eye doctor's office she got well into SCENE Sandra's book on how to write fiction. Lou also read a manuscript for TT Press and sent the review and MS back today. She is working on an article for ROUNDUP about Jane Rushing and is about to get that done. She is staying busy even though it is painful. Her work station needs some ergonomic twitching.