Dude!

[handful_ofdust]

I went into the bathroom, and there was a bird in there. Granted, as I've said, our window-screen fell to pieces some time back, and we've had it open almost constantly, letting in lots of flies...but this was a full-bore bird, and better yet, it was some sort of domesticated canary which must have gotten out of its cage/apartment. With no idea who it might belong to, all we could do was try to get hold of it and move it back outside, which took twenty minutes--I finally had to squirt it with a sprayer, then drive it into a cranny behind some file-boxes and grab it from above. It smelled musky.

Now I'm wondering if I should clean everything, or what. And whether or not we should get rid of all the crap we have on top of various bookshelves, since it provides such an excellent series of perches...