There were NO witnesses

Mama's first cigarette of the day was interupted by a robin flying into the front window. There is a small circle of feathers still on the window...none of us saw it but Mama told us about it. The impact almost gave Mama a heart attack. We still haven't seen it, although Mama says it is clearly visible on the second step...I guess you don't see what you aren't looking for.

The body is still there, although she's called her brother Nick to come and remove the poor thing, which means she'll be off to church as "payment", much to her dismay. She had planned a day of beading and sleeping, as she was all over town yesterday with Rhonda, shopping, and wore the wrong shoes for that much foot travel, and is all achy and tired physically and just wants the comfort of silence today. Silence isn't a reality at church - there is much singing and clapping hands and a fire-and-brimstone preacher job to sit through, all over loudspeakers which aren't really a necessity in the room.

Mama's Reading: Lots of bead books. She's trying out new things! Today she's learning how to make a beaded square, like a dice. Friday she learned how to make rings.

Mama's internal receiver is tuned into: the Mars Volta, still.

http://www.themarsvolta.com/

She notices that they will be on the Henry Rollins Show (Independent Film Channel) on the 27th, which she's going to have to order up from SaskTel in order to watch it (which isn't hard, as she likes the channel on the whole). She's very excited about this, and has even written it down on the calendar. She's added them as friends on her MySpace even!

If you go to http://www.myspace.com/themarsvolta you can hear L'via L'viaquez, which is half in Spanish and half in English and goes from busy to mellow and back to busy and then mellow. Mama's going to listen to the other songs on the site as she's never heard them before...

She's hearing snippets of trumpets and guitar and drums and the occasional chorus line.

Purring into a sleep in C formation...
Miss Sissy Hankshaw