Riddle #18: Fred and Sally

This one should be fairly easy:

Fred and Sally are dead. Their bodies are lying on the floor, surrounded by water and broken glass. How did they die?

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Screech Owls

The screech owls are back. Each spring a nesting pair returns to the tree-of-heaven in our backyard. We have the perfect knothole where the owls can blend in with the bark and hide their babies. We sneak back behind our fence to watch them often, and I love the haunting trill sounds (which is nothing like a screech, btw). Photographers and birdwatchers gather in the parking lot behind our house to witness this amazing feature of God's creation. Tonight I was checking out the flowers in the backyard and was surprised to find one of the owls in our little mulberry tree. I quickly called the family and grabbed my camera. We've never been so close the owls before.

Here is the mate in the tree-of-heaven. Note how well it blends in with the bark.

For some reason the flash gave the owl the "red-eye" effect, giving the owl an eerie look.

Spring flowers

Spring came late this year. I took these pictures on May 1 at -- where else -- the East Campus arboretum.

State Fish Art

Just wanted to share that Monica has won the state fish art contest for the state of Nebraska. Here is her winning picture:

http://www.statefishart.com/images/NE2008Claesson432.jpg

Riddle #17: The river

This is an old riddle, and some of you may have heard one like it. But it's such a great riddle, I decided to post it anyway.

You have a small boat and you need to cross a river with three items: a wolf, a lamb, and a bale of hay. You can only take yourself plus one item at a time across the river. The problem is, you cannot leave the wolf alone with the lamb, or the wolf will eat the lamb. Also, you cannot leave the lamb alone with the bale of hay, or the lamb will eat the hay. How do you get all three items across the river?

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