muddy_water cr0wl outdoor cat bowl is soiled telltale sign of a robin_hill raccoon waddling up to the plankboard porch in the fading evening light wearing his thief's mask to steal the available iams lamb/chicken blend washes his hands first and says grace opened door, unexpected hush of exclamation startled robber slumps away with crumbs on his whiskers 090624 ... raze there's a memory of siphoning some of this from a ditch past the field behind the church and carrying it back to class in a turkey baster, though i can't imagine how we thought we were going to analyze it with the equipment we had at our disposal, which was next to nothing, really. maybe a microscope and some empty beakers. when you're a kid, you don't think so much about how flawed your science experiments are. you just stare at your own uneven reflection in something you know you shouldn't drink and wonder what those dirty tears might taste like if they fell from your face. 260202 what's it to you? who go blather from