Today we received the new Harry Potter book from Amazon, and Steven immediately shut himself in his room to read it.

So far, so good. The only “gotcha” is that we’ve been trying to capture a feral cat in the backyard, and Steven has been bringing the trap inside at around 5 PM so we wouldn’t get any skunks by mistake. Late this afternoon, I saw some activity in the cage (which we covered with towels so it wouldn’t look like a cage to the cat), and called Steven to calm the cat down and give it some water. About 45 seconds later, I see him in the back with the towels off the cage and staring at a very surprised baby skunk! Sure enough, it was around 7 PM and he had gotten so engrossed in Harry Potter that he had forgotten about the cage.

You can see what happened next on YouTube.

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