Rosendale Ramblings By Sari Botton

Okay, things are getting weird around here. As in, two dead animals on the front lawn in two days. Neither seemed injured.

Brian was watering the lawn this evening. Came in for a phone call, went back out, and there it was, just like the other one: grey, fluffy – dead. No blood. No limbs out of place. Except this was a possum. About ten feet away from where the cat bought it.

I called the highway department to see if they would come and dispose of it (that’s who handled the cat on Thursday), but they didn’t show. Finally, Brian (with the help of his brother Alan) picked it up with a shovel and tossed it in the marsh behind our property. My hero.

Is someone playing a trick on us? Might we, as my friend Janet suggested, have an electrical current under our yard that’s shocking these animals, like the one at the edge of Tompkins Square Park that killed a woman and a dog last year? Does our lawn just seem like a nice place to call it quits? Tune in for the next episode of CSI Rosendale…