Oh, Rats!

New noise when I sat at the breakfast table this morning. Sounded like a fire engine idling. My husband and went outside and looked around. No fire truck. It was our neighbors two rickety air conditioners recently installed in the alley windows. The sound reverberates spoiling the morning silence. I've decided I'd rather think of it as a fire truck than an annoyance. Sounds like I live at a truck stop.

Then after breakfast I heard honking and went out front. Three gigantic turkey vultures holding up traffic including a school bus while nibbling a freshly dead rat in the street directly in front of my house. Happy Friday!

Later in the day I peeked outside and the rat remains were gone except for a small red stain in the road. The vultures had done a great job. And my neighbors told me the landlord is evicting all of the tenants and putting the house on the market. All is well that ends well.