Steve`s Country
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20/20 Investigations, Inc…Country Estate, Chapter 4.
How could this happen? Does she walk in her sleep? But still, those squeaky hinges would have awakened the cats. Meow!=I find something, says Mr. Cat. He is on the floor by my feet. He brings a small bottle up for me to look at and I notice a needle on the floor and a piece of paper. Mr. Cat gets the paper for me too. I look at the paper, a note in Jessica’s handwriting. “I just couldn’t take it anymore Steve, first the hotel, and now here, it’s just too much. I’m sorry Steve, I love you.” There was more but I couldn’t read it just now. I look at the bottle, if she injected herself with this, she’s dead without getting her to the hospital and that’s nearly 3 hours from here. We have no way to communicate, no vehicle and we heard on the radio last night that the bridge we had crossed earlier had fallen down. It’s a small bridge and the police had said it was suspicious. The police had called Jessica to warn her about the bridge as well.
Could that be related to what is happening here? That bridge is an hour away from here, we are at the end of the road and there are no other houses on this side of the bridge. None of this makes sense, especially Jessica killing herself, not after the way she was talking last night. And yet, the evidence is right before me. Looking at the note again, it says to take her car and leave quickly. No chance of that now. It also says to take the money in the top dresser drawer. I’ll check on that later. There’s only one thing that might help Jessica. I tell Muffin to take her little pouch from her backpack and go to the bathroom and take all the medicine and bring it to me. Meow!=Okay, Mr. Cat, you help me! Off they run quickly. She uses that little leather pouch to carry things we might find in our investigations. I only hope Jessica has that medicine we need or there is nothing I can do to save her life.
Mr. Cat comes running with the pouch and empties in on the bed. Meow=I go for more. She certainly has a lot of different medicines, but nothing here that will help. I check the drawer in the bedside table, empty. It seems like an hour has passed, it’s only been a few minutes. Muffin comes back with the last of the medicine. Meow, meow=Mr. Cat go look in other bathroom. Go with him Muffin, I want you two to stick together all the time. Meow!=Okay! And off she runs. There is nothing in all this that will help and time is running out. The cats come running back with one bottle. That’s it! But I need a clean needle. I quickly grab the needle on the floor and go to the bathroom, that will work to clean the needle, peroxide, not the best, but it will work anyway.
But how much of this medicine should I use? I took a course in these things, thought it might be helpful, but if I don’t use the right amount…I need to work fast so I just have to guess and give it to her. Now we wait. I keep on with the CPR, soon there is a weak pulse and heartbeat. She just might make it now. After awhile everything seems normal with her heart, good pulse, but she’s not waking up. I leave the cats with Jessica and go out to the living room to think. It must be Anna and Dave that are behind this, but why? What did they find out about this house that would cause them to turn on a good friend? And if they want us to leave, why did they make it impossible to leave? I go to the kitchen to make some coffee. It’s a nice large old style kitchen, gives a nice comfortable feeling. I just get in through the doorway and…
To be continued.
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Daily Pics #153.
Good morning to everyone on this marvelous Monday and Happy June as well! It’s a mild and cloudy morning here and we are supposed to have some rain showers today and possibly a thunderstorm later in the day. It is getting very dry right now so we do need the rain. The blueberries are blooming so nicely right now but at least a third of what I saw out walking yesterday are drying up. Might be a bit late for those bushes this year, but rain will help the rest of them. With everything growing right now the ground dries out rather quickly, so rain is needed on a regular basis this time of the year.
It was very nice yesterday and I had a very enjoyable walk down to the river again, I hadn’t been there for a couple of days. Several new wildflowers were blooming and there seemed to be a greater abundance of smaller birds, such as the warblers, all along the path. But with all the leaves out now it’s impossible to get pictures of these small birds, but it’s nice to enjoy all their different songs while walking. Scramble, the squirrel, was around and actually stayed quite close to me for a while as I talked with him. He just sat and at one point lay down on a fallen branch. He still isn’t quite brave enough to take the peanut from my fingers, so I toss it to him, still keeping it as close as possible to me and he comes then to retrieve it. One of these days he will be brave enough.
And now for today’s pictures to share with you…
Above we have the male goldfinch at one of my feeders enjoying a nice breakfast of sunflower seeds with the early morning sun shining directly on his bright yellow feathers.
And in the above picture we have a pine siskin enjoying himself in the apple tree again with the early morning sun shining on him. He is waiting his turn at the feeder right then. I hope you like these two pics this morning, Happy Monday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Steve`s Country 