PLH Reception

Pleasant evening in Carmichael with co-workers, discussing, among other things, with K.D., the theater program at Sac State.

K.M. relayed an amazing story his daughter told him. On Thursday, Sept. 6th, she was jogging on a rural road west of Paso Robles, California, when she heard a tremendous clatter and noise behind her. She looked back, and saw an attacking mountain lion bring down a terrified deer onto the road immediately behind her. She decided not to flee by running (under the circumstances, that might be fatal to herself), but rather, by walking away as fast as she dared. She sought help at the nearest house. When she and her help arrived back at the scene, both the deer and lion were gone. Presumably the lion had stolen off with its supper (or maybe the deer had escaped???)

A sobering story! It makes the rural California idyll seem rather more hazardous than one might at first assume!