Update on the visit

Well Carl has been here for a day. He is painfully thin, but I have been trying to fatten him up. He has been cooperating and eating. All in all a very satisfactory mothering experience.

He has been living for a year and eight months at the sanctuary. It is a peaceful place. 80 acres of land in the hills. They have a large garden and poultry. They do have electricity. They have a real kitchen and shower with hot water. They even have a stereo, and a TV with a DVD player. Mostly though they have books, and new age pagan festivals, and Native American tribes who rent the land for celebratiosn.

They do not, however, have video games.

Andrew, Evan and Brian have been dragging Carl off to the basement to slay monsters, or some such thing. Carl tells me privately that he sort of enjoys it, but it is also quite draining. Still, everyone is getting along, which is cool.