And I certainly never guessed that I would become a neighborhood dad. In many neighborhoods, a majority of families have two working parents. Any woman who stays home with her kids is likely to become the neighborhood morn. Of course, a full-time dad can assume the same role. Neighborhood dad took on a more distinctly male flavor with the first of the animal calls.
Women assume that men know about animals.
As I tried it figure who was calling, I identified evening grosbeaks, the same flock of which had just left my yard after devouring a pound of my sunflower seeds. The phone rang again when a hummingbird was trapped in a neighbor's house, but that call was calm compared to the mouse call. There's a mouse caught in a trap under my kitchen sink. When the caller told me she was talking to me while standing on the kitchen counter, I knew it was serious situation. She explained 1 was the only male in Los Alamos close enough to remove the mouse in an acceptably short period of time.