More Animals

I'm not sure if I mentioned the night Jon brought home a puppy claiming it was lost. That night the thing kept puking and then eating its throw up. And in the morning it turned out that the dog just liked to roam around and wasn't lost at all. Well, that was a while ago, But Kalai remembered that incident. Last night, Kalai brought us a little baby bird that she said had fallen out of its nest and needed a place to sleep until the rescue organization would be open in the morning. So for a night we took care of little "Poo-poo." (That name was courtesy of Amy's creative mind.) We have decided Poo-poo is a girl because she is very beautiful. She spent the night with us, but when she heard family chirping in the morning, she flew around all flustered and called to her bird friends. So we took her outside and she kept calling till another bird came and accompanied her away. It was rather cute. Jon has decided that animals just use us for a nice place to sleep for a night.

Yesterday, our friend Joel, whose house we have taken to invading when we are bored, got himself evicted. The whole thing was pretty stupid. He was defending a friend against the manager who was insisting that the guy move at 10 am when he was clearly going to be at work. Joel said: "Doing that's being an asshole." And then he was told he would have to move out. I'm pretty sure Joel is the one person I would never have expected this to come to. He is probably the least offensive, most soft-spoken guy in the world. But, this just adds to the reasons why living at The Park is like living in a war between staff at the Mountain, and management at The Park. New battles strike up all the time, and Jon and I get stuck in the middle of it because I work at the mountain and he works at The Park.

Having said that, everyone here is sort of getting antsy to leave. The snow is so slushy that people opt out of going skiing on their off days, and drive to nearby towns instead. (Those are the only two options of entertainment.) There is a REAL waterfall in middle of one of the slopes, and it is not uncommon to encounter little streams, and rocks are jutting out of the snow everywhere. People are being asked if they want to end their contracts for work early because it looks like the season is heading to a close. I think they are hoping to get another month out of it. We'll see if the snow plays along. Either way it doesn't really matter for us. When there is no more work for us to do on the mountain, I'll share the hours Jon is doing at the Park, and we can have the rest of the week to travel around and do touristy things.

That is all for now!

Jalissa