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April 2017. Devolve, already. Humans en-masse make fatally stupid
decisions and I am extending specific Mob Darwin Awards to ridicule
consensus opinions that are too stupid to live. Number 1: Louisiana and
the Mississippi Delta. This
Lovely
LAND/TIME VISUALIZER, "Losing Ground" shows the soggy encroachment of
sea into once-vital
land. Bob
Marshall has been moniitoring and reporting on the decline of liveable
Louisiana land for many years, In the 1930's the Army Corps of Engineers
began work on a network of enormous levees that prevent the Mississippi
river delta from functioning as a delta -- a silt deposit system that
builds ground.
 Dusty caught a rat... and a rat... and a rat... 
Perhaps he's caught another rat by now.
I pull into our driveway after negotiating long traffic queues, and what should I see but Dusty walking towards me, a dark shape in his mouth, Jacob agog in the background. "Did he catch a bird?!"
"No, it lookd like a rat."
Dusty is our 14-year-old backyard cat. He came with the house. He is arthritic and slow, truculent in looks but sweet by disposition. Bev "Dick & Bev who sold us the house" Ehrhardt told me, "He walks slowly but I've seen him leap onto THAT deck like a young cat."
It must be true, because there he is,
proudly batting a baby rat like a professional cat.
Dusty dropped his bundle and stood, proudly submitting to his well-deserved strokes. The prey he had captured was too big to be a mouse, too small for a rat, carrying the large head that bespoke an infant. A young rat, we decided.
It was dead. Should we take it away, or let Dusty eat it?
I grabbed the camera and snapped a picture, the meaningless reassuring digital "click" startling Dusty into running ten feet away, where he flopped down and submitted to back rubs and endearments.
We wandered off, Jacob and I. Fifteen minutes later, there was Dusty with ANOTHER rat. From whence did these infernal animals spring?
When Dusty was about to lose Ratlet Two in the flowers, I took it away, put it in Helix's cage, led Dusty upstairs for a few morsels of Yummy Food, then patiently stalked the hunter-cat to see where these rats were coming from.
At first, Dusty stalked me back, regarding me fair prey for cat scritches. Once disabused of the notion, he crept, minute by minute, cat nap by cat nap, to my uphill neighbor's basement grille. My neighbor is eighty if she's a day, is she, and loathe to meet new people. There, beneath her overhang he lurked, and...
Rustle! Pounce! Wrestle!
...there was another baby rat.
Four was the limit. The whole herd accounted for, Dusty took up a three-day vigil outside the neighbor's rat hole.
Mom recommends traps.
Papa recommends poison, placed out of reach of other animals.
Jacob recommends an exterminator to our neighbor.
I recommend Dusty.
Perhaps Dusty has caught another rat by now.
February 2003
Follow the Adventure Back in Time
"Gee," you're thinking to yourself, "Wendy's @ Home Page could keep me entertained for hours."
While this is true, eventually you will tire of my page and seek out new worlds. Here are some of my suggestions:
The Love Calculator tells it like it is! Test your spouse or your favorite fantasy mate, and see what the Love Doctor has to say.
Read about the Condom Raft found floating near Australia. Statistics prove that 4000 college students visit this page at Stanford each and every week.
In honor of Charles Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest", the Darwin Awards site describes individuals who removed themselves from the gene pool in amazingly ingenious ways. Vote on the 1997 Nominees or add your two cents to the guestbook!
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Voyeurs Page is worth a brief stop, and might become addictive. This page shows actual internet searches people submit. For example, "toe-sucking AND pictures" or "Crushed Stone" or "mouth infection." The page displays 12 search strings refreshed every 15 seconds.
(Note it's partially broken but the fun part still works perfectly.)
The door creaks open at CLICK ME - an artistic romp through the underworld of one man's soul. Not suitable for children.
Sucky Homepage
A website is a terrible thing to waste. Does your homepage suck? Investigate the top 10 ways to tell if you have a sucky website Look for cute little bouncing animal icons that you will want to take home.
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