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Owl Story

Birds,

A recent post on Birdchick’s blog about people mistaking a fake owl for the real thing reminded me of the time it happened to me.

I was 8 months pregnant with Clare and sound asleep one night. Suddenly, my husband, who’d been out taking a walk in the neighborhood rushed into the bedroom and woke me up to tell me an owl was perched on a neighbor’s fence.

I got up, got semi-dressed and waddled up the street and down the neighbor’s driveway only to see it was a fake owl.

It took a while to convince Dean, but when he could almost touch it, he believed me.

I was not kind about it — although I should have been. After all — he thought he had something special to show me.

Not much later, we did see a Great Eared Owl in a tree in a yard behind our house. So, it could have been the real thing. But it wasn’t.

News via Stats

Death,

I regularly check the search terms in my stats to see how people landed on my blog. I’ve posted about the rash of ground hog searches and thought a post about other searches, similar to Susan’s, would be fun.

Lately I’ve noticed that the term, “Vic Cianca” has been searched. Until I did a search myself, I couldn’t figure out why the sudden interest in the Pittsburgh Traffic Cop who was a semi-regular feature on the old Candid Camera program and had a cameo in Flashdance; and about whom I mentioned in a post a couple of months ago — comparing him to the traffic cop I see when I take my kids to school.

My Internet search found an obituary but I’m not sure it is the same person. I suspect not, because I’m pretty certain that his death would be bigger news — at least in Pittsburgh.  I think others have the same question — and have come to my blog to find out the answer. Sorry folks — I don’t know either.  Let me know if you do find out, though — OK?