Some Predictable Things

Two things actually, some zoo predators got a chance to take down live prey and they did, and a slippery road made for a slippery spill on a motorcycle.

The first happened when a white tailed deer strayed into the cheetah enclosure at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. A spokesperson for the zoo called killing the deer, or prey in this instance "a normal and expected reaction" by the carnivorous big cats.  A zookeeper heard noises coming from the cheetah pen and found the deer carcass near a pair of cheetah siblings. I hope the noises were sounds of sibling revelry rather than sibling rivalry and apparently the deer remains will be examined (what’s left of them) to be sure the animal carried no disease. The only witnesses to the chase etc. were the cheetahs themselves. This would have made for an interesting webcam event.

The slippery spill was witnessed by some friends at the bike (non-motorized) shop on the corner in front of which my husband fishtailed his bike coming around a rain slicked corner yesterday. Thankfully other than a scratched up helmet, a little dent to the gas tank, my husband came through mostly unscathed, unless you consider a small injury to his backside, and a little bigger one to his pride. Needless to say after he got the bike back up, with the help of our friends at the Camden Bicycle Center who were also nice enough to follow him home to make sure he made it here, he is now resting his injured parts on a heating pad and the bike is resting in the garage.