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We returned from the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/mt\/archives\/001220.html\">Water, Precious<br \/>\nWater<\/a> concert Sunday afternoon, and everything seemed benign-usual, well,<br \/>\nother than the state of Onondaga Lake and world water crises. Besides<br \/>\nthat, I mean. I snapped the leash onto Y.&#8217;s collar and into the backyard<br \/>\nwe bebopped. There we found a distressed-seeming duck and heard a chorus<br \/>\nof chirps. Steady <i>help-us<\/i> peeps floated from the window well close by.<br \/>\nForeseeing that Y. would only fuel the strange animal energies, I tugged him<br \/>\nback inside. D. and I went to the basement where, through the screen, we<br \/>\nobserved four small, squabbling ducklings bobbing around the window well with<br \/>\ntheir clumsy, random flap-n-jumps. Were they there by accident? Were<br \/>\nthey stuck? Hungry? Given the cool temps, D. suggested they might have been<br \/>\nattracted to the heat (why is heat pouring out of an open basement winter in<br \/>\nJune? That&#8217;s another matter altogether.) Still, we weren&#8217;t sure whether<br \/>\nthey could get out, and we&#8217;ve watched a fox amble through the yard a couple of<br \/>\ntimes in recent weeks. Their urgent chirping and the mother duck&#8217;s display<br \/>\nof uneasiness left us deliberating whether or not to ramp them out (a cardboard<br \/>\nramp?). The reliable internets shone a light on the dilemma we were in:<br \/>\nthe ducks are federally protected. Tampering with them is a roll of the<br \/>\ndice with Law. We waited, hoping, meanwhile, that they wouldn&#8217;t expire<br \/>\nthere. And then&#8211;the stuff of fairy tales&#8211;they were gone. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>2. Ants. This one is easy. An infestation. Out from<br \/>\nthe kitchen walls they march, hurrah hurrah. But all the food is<br \/>\ncontain(er)ed, and I&#8217;ve laid down enough Terro to, pray-it-works, constrict<br \/>\ntheir sweetness-sucking little throats. Fine, so it&#8217;s not on par with odd<br \/>\nhappening #1. Still. This next one is:<\/p>\n<p>3. Parking garage derby. Today we&#8217;re at the CNY Medical Building<br \/>\nparking garage. D.&#8217;s in for a routine baby-check. Ready for this? We<br \/>\nspiral through the parking garage until the fourth floor where spaces begin to<br \/>\nopen up. 9:13 a.m. A lt. blue minivan two cars ahead of us was<br \/>\ndriving in lurches, as if every next space must be <i>the one<\/i>.<br \/>\nPatterned: sprint. Stop. Sprint. Stop. I parked the Element. We<br \/>\nhopped out, walked over to the elevator, where we waited. The van was<br \/>\nfinally parking; as we walked, the driver waved us ahead. Go ahead, walk<br \/>\nin front. <i>The one<\/i> was next to where we stood, waiting for the<br \/>\nelevator to arrive. And then: the van sped into the spot and rammed the<br \/>\nsteel guard rail. Fiberglass and plastic splintered, sailing everywhichway.<br \/>\nAnd the driver, her window down, was repeating, &quot;I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;m sorry.&quot;<br \/>\nHer teenage son, resting in the passenger side with his crutches (a broken lower<br \/>\nappendage; an appointment for which they were late?), sat there, shocked as we<br \/>\nall are. Who was she apologizing to? Explained that she went for the<br \/>\nbrake and <i>missed<\/i>. Judging by the rate of impact, though, I&#8217;d say<br \/>\nthe missed brake meant a centered hit for the accelerator. Helluva<br \/>\nunfortunate way to smash a van, and an odd happening because I&#8217;d never witnessed<br \/>\nanything quite like it. Parking garages already <i>feel<\/i> awkward to me<br \/>\n(low ceilings, all concrete and steel), now, even more so.<\/p>\n<p>4. Garage door cable. Around noon, D. went to water the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33032196@N00\/145768481\/\">planter-people<\/a><br \/>\non the front step. Pressed the garage door opener: a loud crack (or two).<br \/>\nOne of the door-lifting cables snapped. Being a heavy-built door (1950&#8217;s<br \/>\nheavy, that is), the uneven weight yanked loose a garage rafter. Oy.<br \/>\nAnd with the Element, our only motor vehicle, nestled smartly inside, what could<br \/>\nwe do next. So I phoned our landlord, and he got on it. The repairs<br \/>\nwere underway within two hours and finished before another hour passed.<br \/>\nStill, strange enough to be an O.H. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>1. Ducklings. 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