A Wake-Up Call From Russell Crow

No. Not the Russell Crowe. Russ is a baby crow that fell out of his parents' nest, landing right underneath my bedroom window, where he has lived for the past 3 days. Having returned from Portland over the weekend, I had forgotten that Russell likes to awake at the crack of dawn to begin loudly squawking for his parents to bring him breakfast in bed.

I'm forced into the ethical quandary of either stomping Russell to death or hand-feeding him some garbage...

And Now The Good News...

...The world as we know it is not going to end anytime soon. That is, people are not going to go out of style in the near future. So says a bunch of researchers, scientists and other people whose job it is to think about things like this. Whew. I feel so relieved.