Penelope didn't make it...

I tried rescuing a mourning Dove we nicknamed Penelope. I saw her attacked by a crow on Sunday morning and after the crow left I went out there and picked her up. She seemed a bit dazed but she was later eating and looked good. She tried to fly but couldn't get far off the ground. Her wings weren't broken and I saw no external injuries. Susan Johnson who runs Jungrala Wildife Sanctuary near us told me to keep her protected and plenty of food and water and she may be ok in a day or two. Susan and I both thought she was just a bit shocked and needed some quiet and rest.
Got home from work yesterday and checked on her, and she was gone--not gone away, but dead, with ants on her, such a sad sight. I do not think the ants are what killed her, I think she just went sometime in the night. She must have already gone the night before because she sat upright in the same spot I saw her in that morning when we left for work. I'd peeked inside the box and thought she was sleeping. We couldn't bring her inside because of the cats so we placed her in a nice big box which lay on it's side with a towel in there for comfort and a towel over the open side to keep it dark in there. She could go in and out as she pleased and had plenty of food and water and I noticed she'd even eaten a little. But she died standing up, in the corner of the box.

We washed her off and wrapped her up and buried her under the gardenia bushes.

This morning on the way to work we saw one of "our" deer laying on the side of the road just up from our house, some asshole driving too fast had hit her.

Over the years I've realized I can only do so much and beyond that it's just out of my hands.

And yet another Judge makes an assinine decision...

How do you even rationalize this story?

Butler County (Ohio) Juvenile Court Judge David Niehaus sentenced Brian Gegner to 180 days in jail because his daughter hasn't passed the GED. She was a bit unruly at one time, a truant when she lived with her mother, and when she went to live with her father he didn't fare much better with her, and she admits it was her fault, not that of her parents. Now Brittney Gegner is 18 with a child of her own and her father has to spend six months in jail for something she didn't do.

I feel for Brian Gegner, he did the best he could. And now with six months in jail, he'll likely lose his job which would likely be very devastating for him given these tough economic times.

There's nothing like government stifling the livelihood and productivity of the American citizen eh?

CBS Radio Mystery Theater...

is one of my favorite radio programs!

It was originally broadcast from 1974-1982 and hosted by the great E.G. Marshall from 74-81. The actors who played the starring roles were a mix of well-known to somewhat known actors, some from films and others from the golden age of radio. Many like Paul Gwynne, Celeste Holm, Mercedes McCambridge, Agnes Moorhead and Paul Hecht (just to name a few) had recurring roles!

I never knew about this show until last year. I was downloading a few hundred old time radio shows from the OTR archive site where there are literally thousands of old time radio programs which have been preserved and archived for posterity. There were 1,399 original CBS Radio Mystery Theatre programs.

Right now as I am blogging (and doing some studying in-between LOL), I am listening to "Trial for Murder" broadcast October 24, 1977 and taken right from the story originally written by Charles Dickens and his son-in-law Charles Collins. It was the only mystery Dickens ever wrote.

Click on CBS Radio Mystery Theater above and you'll be directed to the listing of shows on the internet archive site. You can also do a search for show downloads on google and you will find more independent sites which have collected shows as well.

Enjoy! Let me know what you think.