We’re heading for ZoukFest next week. Our neighbor will be gone too but has a housesitter coming in from California, someone we know from when she used to live here. She’s be taking care of our neighbor’s cats, obviously, and we’d like to pay her to look out for our animals as well. The thing is, I want to nail this down so we can get on with our plans, but I can’t get in touch with the housesitter.

Why?

As my wife explained last night, “You can’t call S________. She’s off someplace where cell phones don’t work, working on a project that has something to do with frogs.”

Oh.

No, I am not making this up. But it sort of makes the flow easier to go along with, doesn’t it?