Believe it or not: Ruby is back! On Monday I went around the neighborhood and took down the posters Alex and I put up a few weeks ago and threw them out. Tuesday morning, she showed up on our front porch! She's lost some weight and feels a little bony around the middle, but she's not dirty and didn't have any fleas on her, and her fur isn't matted or anything, so we think she may have been living somewhere where she could be inside but couldn't get out. There is a couple moving out of the apartments next door so the door to the building is propped open; maybe she was with someone in there? But it doesn't seem like she's been being fed consistently either, so we don't know. Anyway, Iris is pissed. She had been getting back to her old self again, her pre-Ruby self. No growling and hissing all the time, jumping up into our laps and curling up, that sort of stuff. Now with Iris, it's like Ruby is brand new again. It's bad. I've had to feed her on the table or something to keep her away from Ruby. Ruby has been just fine though. She doesn't seem to have changed much.....We went and got the camper on Wednesday, complete with the new AC unit. I set the camper up in the driveway when we got home so we could test it out. On a hot sunny day, with the AC set to medium cooling, it kept the camper very comfortable inside. Impressively so. I'm nervous about water condensation getting into the roof, since there was a little pool of water trickling towards the back end of the camper, but hopefully it's sealed up nice and tight. It should make it much more pleasant for camping next month. It cost a thousand bucks but it's cheaper than a new camper.....Friday I decided that there must be another mole in the backyard because there were still tunnels in the ground, and I didn't think I'd missed that many in stomping them back down. So I reset the trap in the backyard, and by Saturday morning I had caught another mole. Another big one. The end must have come very quickly for him if you know what I mean. After that I set it back up again in the front yard. There must be a mole there too, unless it was all the same two.....Saturday we all went to the mall in Fort Wayne. I wonder if that was a really bad idea. The shops were pretty much all open, and the crowds were about as large as ever, and pretty much nobody was wearing a face mask. Very, very few people. Except for us. We were probably more exposed there than we have been any time since this all started. Anyway we hit the Barnes & Noble, and the kids did Think Geek and Hot Topic and Box Lunch and so on, and those stores were limiting the number of people coming in at a time, and they asked you not to touch things unless you were going to buy them, but it felt like a petri dish in there.....The county is now up to 468 cases, and it's blowing up all across the country, it seems.....