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A sad public apology to a friend on the Rain, Mr. Charles Buell, Home Inspector

I have tears in my eyes as I write this public apology to Mr. Buell, Home Inspector, Artist, Bird Tamer, and blogger friend. He has tamed this bird and called it the Raven. Ooops, I meant he HAD tamed this raven and trained it as an assistant.

HAD is the sadness. The bird came calling on me in Arkansas since I have bragged on her beauty.

I was in the kitchen and my cat was outside with this really frantic meowing at the door. I looked out to see what was her problem. She had captured and tortured something and she wanted me to brag on her! She is very proud of her skills as a huntress.

I did brag on her and then she devoured the captured something. Mr. Charles, I didn't have a chance to

grab it away. It was your Raven! She was upside down. Soon she was gone.

cat with raven

Mr. Charles, I'm so sorry. If you want me to send the little necklace back I'll try to pick up the pieces and get them to you. I'm afraid that flirty heart is history.

Posted by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR on 12/07/2008 12:22 PM

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81 Comments on A sad public apology to a friend on the Rain, Mr. Charles Buell, Home Inspector

DEC

2008

Oh, Barbara.... Charles will be bereft.

Oh Barbara... This is sad news, indeed. Did you have a raven funeral?

It is OK----she is heartless but she is also the bird with nine lives:)

Raven DeCroe

Charles, only cats have nine lives. But go ahead and be a believer. Activerain will understand that you now have an imaginary raven.

Barbara,

We investigate this kind of "accident." But when there is a mortality it is essential to investigate. I am sure that your kitty will be exhonerated, but I will send a detachment down to look into it.

Sincerely,

Nutsy

Nutsy, please tell me when the detachment will be here because she is a guard cat and you could be next! You will make a personal (in person) trip, won't you?????? I've never heard her meow so loud as when she got that Raven. Can't tell whether it was a meow of remorse or of exhilaration but she chomped Raven quickly.

Barbara - This is a sad day, indeed. Don't tell your kitty, though. She thinks she's making you proud... :)

Debi, I've never heard a cat meow with such urgency. I think she wanted to show me what she'd done so she could hurry up and eat it. She sounded so urgent I thought Nutsy was around. LOL

Barbara, PLEASE don't be offended but, may I suggest that you ask for new glasses for Christmas?:) What color are Crows? That there bird your cat got sure ain't no crow. I think if you check your Christmas decorations you will find that this bird was making off with some of the lights that you mistook for Raven's Necklace----your cat was just doing his job. If you look at that last picture and the one here----Raven's necklace is very much intact and Raven is NOT laying on her back dead.

Raven DeCroe

Mrs Barbara,

We are, this weekend, having problems with the Hell's Angels. The same batch we got a few days back, with your help in keeping my undercover image intact. For that reason I had to send a crack squad of investigators to Arkansas. I could not go on my own. For the doubting Charles out there, I have here a photo of the group departing for Searcy earlier today.

Mrs Barbara -- As you know, and thank you for your cooperation, that investigation is now complete. The report has been electronically sent to my office and it is posted below.

OFFICIAL REPORT

At 12:22pm Active Rain time, December 7, 2008 it was reported to international law enforcement authorities that there was a homicide at the Duncan home in Searcy, Arkansas. This came under international jurisdiction because the homeowner, a Mrs. Barbara Duncan, had reason to believe that the victim was out of Seattle, WA and went by the name Raven. That individual is in the Interpol computers as an international criminal.

A crack team of investigators immediately flew by helicopter, from Canada, to the scene. Mrs Duncan cooperated with the investigation even though her family cat was the primary suspect in the murder. It was determined, beyond any doubt, that Mrs. Barbara Duncan's initial suspicions were correct. The deceased is certainly Raven, who also goes by aliases such as Raven DeCrow. At first, due to the appearance of the deceased, it was not certain that this was the suspect, Raven. However, photo and lab analysis has confirmed that the suspect was in disguise. Upon removing loose feathers by the body, and by pulling off those glued on the bird, this was seen to be a clever disguise. The distinctive necklace, worn by the bird known as Raven, and stolen from a wealthy woman in Seattle, was found at the scene of the crime. The necklace will be returned to the victim of that recent theft.

Findings/Charges: No charges will be filed against the Duncan cat or any other party. It is apparent that the raven was attempting to break into the Duncan home and the actions of the cat were justifiable and commendable. While those of us in law enforcement are not in the position to give legal advice, it is suggested that the Duncan family consult with an attorney. It is possible that this bird was operating under the control of Mr Charles Buell, a mastermind of mischief from the Seattle area. If that is found to be the case, it might be possible to bring a civil suit against Buell for criminal trespass and aiding and abetting a burglary. The crime scene photo, revealing the full details, and providing positive ID of the victim, is below.

Case closed. Justice served.

Sincerely,

Nutsy, lead investigator, Searcy homicide

Well, Nutsy may be Nature's gift to law enforcement, but I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to see all the "doctoring" of photos that went on from the time of the supposed demise of Raven and the so-called "investigation." Again----she is alive and well: Raven DeCroe

Mr Buell,

The only doctor we need on scene is one to take a look at your old noggin'. Case closed.

Nutsy W

Nutsy, you did a great job of investigating. That report is so very thorough and gives all the pertinent information of the crime. At first I didn't think it was a crime scene. I thought it was a mistake and therefore I apologized to Mr. Buell for my cat who made a mistake.

BUT NOW! Goodness! I may need to, as you say, ask action to be taken against Mr. Buell. He is a mighty powerful person to be able to send that crow all the way to Arkansas to committ crimes. And I thought that crow loved me and threw me kisses. ALL FAKE! BUTTERING ME UP FOR NO TELLING WHAT!

I appreciate your doing a close-up of the crime scene with a better camera, too, showing without doubt that necklace and a black raven. If it is within your power we might give my cat some kind of award for taking care of a well-known criminal. Here she is in all her innocent glory.

Innocent cat

Charles, she is alive and well. Just keep on believing that. She's alive and well.....she's alvie n wll....she's aliv....n well.....

Steve, be kind.....he thinks she's alive and well.......

Barbara, I think we can all clearly see the dinner plans of this cat of yours.

cat food

Charles, you may be a thief and a con and harbor a miscreant but you are also funny as heck!! ROFLMAO!!! At you and Steven!

Mr Charles,

Your humor is lost on me. Nutsy W, investigator in charge

Somehow that doesn't surprize me:)

Nutsy and Charles, you might as well make up. With Raven gone you two should be friends.

Mrs Barbara,

You may be the go-between. I would be willing to help Mr Charles select his new assistant. Perhaps we could, together, find one that is suitable and not an albatross to wear around his neck.

Regards,

Nutsy W

I suspect Raven will be the last to crow when all is said and done. You all seriously delude yourselves if you actually think Raven is dead.

Looks to me like it is time for Raven to lay off those wild Canadian blueberries:)

nutsy

DEC

2008

So Raven, or a Raven look-alike, is possibly still out there????? That last picture is SO funny! Nutsy, I don't blame you if you are offended.....that bird is RUDE!

Case closed. That is Mr Charles and his cyber silly. He needs a new assistant. I suggest one with four legs.

Oh. My. Goodness. You guys have me laughing out loud over and over. So much that my cats came over to see what was wrong with my monitor -- who was dying here . . .

Barbara,

I hope Charles is not too upset with you! lol

Nutsy, we won that case didn't we, even if you were treated rudely at the end.

Elizabeth, it was a hilarious blog. Those two guys and their assistants are so funny!

Mary, he'll get over it! Besides, he thinks the crow is still alive and we're going to let him think it. It's better for all of us.

Mary, are you going to give Barbara a ride to get her new glasses? Hate to see her drive----she might run over Nutsy on the way:)

Charles, one assistant down, one to go! Time to get back to normalcy. : )

Mr Charles,

After heading that complex investigation, I am out for a bit of R and R at the local dude ranch in Nanaimo BC.

Nutsy.

I think you need to cinch that bandana a little tighter pardner!

DEC

2008

Hark the Raven nevermore... or something like that...

Raven DeCroe

Nutsy, have fun!! You're an investigator supreme and you probably can ride those horses well too.

Aww, Charles, give him a little slack.

Mary Strang, that's very appropriate!

RAVEN! You'll always be real to Charles.....even larger than life! And you'll always be welcome to my blog. I still think you're beautiful even if you were out to get me according to the investigators!

I might raid your garbage can or clean up the road-kill in your driveway---but I would never steel your jewelry like some squirrel I know.

Raven DeCroe

Raven, what a nice note! I don't have any jewelry but there are some relatives of yours who live across the street in some trees and make fun of me every time I go out to get the newpaper in the morning. Perhaps you could pick it up and drop it off at the back door where my kitty lives and I wouldn't have to face those rude relatives. : )

Oh, Barbara! How embarrassing! And Charles, I'm so sorry for your loss! When you hire your next assistant, you might want to consider a species a little less mobile.

I came home and found the Bluebird of Happiness lying in a heap by my front door with Fred the Cat standing proud. Ouch!

Patricia---don't believe the hype----Raven is alive and well:)

You guys have waaaay too much time on your hands. :))

Patricia, Fred is probably related to our cat. Aren't they proud when they kill a poor helpless little bird...and torture it....and then eat it. Oooops, sorry Charles. Didn't mean to add to your grief.

Kevin, it has been a bit slow lately. Got any clients to send my way?

Barbara, not grieving at all. In fact Raven helped string Christmas lights today----now way I was going way up there.

Boy I missed all the excitement. I see that squirrel is up to his usual tricks. Don't be fooled by his cuteness Barbara, underneath lies a malevolent sociopath.

James, Nutsy came all the way to Arkansas to investigate what I thought was criminal activity by my little cat. My cat was proven innocent. The Raven was the guilty party and I had trusted that raven and thought she was beautiful. You and Charles are just trying to hurt little Nutsy's reputation.

Barbara, your cat just showed up over at Steve's blog----and it ain' a pretty sight:)

Charles, I noticed. It was so nice of Steve to give credit where credit was due. And your picture was nice too! Nice little Nutsy.....

Barbara,

I have pretty much kept out of this one but you are right, Charlie and James are up to bashin' again.

Steven, they are plotters supreme!

DEC

2008

Mrs Barbara,

I will take this opportunity to modestly state that if appointed able-bodied Senator from the state of Illinois, I will accept the position.

Hooray! Nutsy for Governor or Senator of Illinois!!!

Dear Mrs Barbara,

I am so pleased. I was going through the family archives trying to make sure there is nothing in my past that might taint my candidacy in the great state of Illinois. I found, to my delight, that my late uncle Almondo was very involved in the inner workings of Chicago politics. Mrs Barbara, don't you think that this will put a potato in the mouths of Mr James and Mr Charles. I think this could be a real boost.

Modestly yours,

Nutsy, Candidate for US Senate, Illinois

I suppose he was "undercover" in this one too?

nuts

Mr Charles,

That was my uncle Almondo whom you are making sport of.

Nutsy

Nutsy, don't speak it out loud but I'd think you can buy Mr. Charles and Mr. James. Just quietly offer them some high paying position for their endorsement. It always works, especially in Illinois. Now me, in Arkansas, I can NOT be bought. I'm on your side.....but my real estate business has been slow this year because of the subprime. I have this little house in one of our prime subdivisions that you might be interested in as a vacation house. : )

Mr Nutsy----would that by any chance be your identical twin uncle? We all now how convoluted the lineage of squirrels is-----you are "squirrelly" for nothing you know?

OOPS! I did it again! Sorry, Mr. Charles.

Still ain't no raven! You are pretty sneaky Barbara---trying to sell Nutsy the Old Nutt Place House:)

For one short moment, I thought this was something tragic. Glad to hear it's more tongue in cheek related.

Barbara - this is either very Poe-etic or, Blues Travelerish. Regardless, Charles can take heart in the closing words

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

Shall be lifted — nevermore!

Or, then again, maybe not!

Quoth the raven

Nevermore!

Charles, sssshhhhhssshhh, we may be able to profit from this new endeavor and Nutsy will be a great Governor.

Diane, it is somewhat tragic. You have to know the characters! You must meet Nutsy and Raven.

Mike, that's deep! I never memorized that poem but it may be the proper time to do so!

I will change hats here. I am back in my red surge. Mrs Barbara, no need to send down the investigators. Clearly no Raven this time. Besides, we already got that thieving one.

Nutsy

Barbara,

I think you have more comments here than I have ever gotten on a feature post. This is proof positive that Nutsy can press the flesh and has real appeal. Lets be serious, they are not here to read the thoughts of James or Charles nor to sob over that crow. Nutsy rocks.

Steve

Ah Ha!!!! You just admitted that Raven IS alive!

Ah Ha!!!! Charles, you just admitted that Raven is gone but you were pretending and hoping he was alive. Too much emotion revealed in that Ah Ha!!! I knew you'd been too calm and collected throughout this whole deal!

Steven, this blog deserved comments!! It was full of comedy, tragedy, mystery......and it continues!!

Barbara, again you slip---since your cat killed a male bird that was not a crow anyway, it was even further away from being Raven because she is a she:) I can't believe you have over 68 comments because of the blatant lies of a coniving piece of walking food.

DEC

2008

Charles! Are you delusional? Are you saying the crows are all females? This should have been a featured blog. The Gods didn't like it and gave me puny points when I checked my summary. They have no taste.....unlike my cat who has excellent taste! They gave me only 274 points for this heroic blog and gave me 334 for my Obama reading my blog blog. You're a clever man, except for Raven, so tell me how they do those points!

Barbara,

Are those points holding. Seems like you sure have lots of comments and I know that sometimes they just keeping tacking them on. I have one blog, way fewer comments that has a ton of points and I do not know just why.

Barbara,

I think that sometime, in the last few months, someone must actually grade them and assign points. Maybe I am naive. But I know that when I first got on here, you could kind of predict points and seldom did anything go over 300. Now it happens all the time. I cannot figure if someone grades the blog, gives it points and then the comments add to it. There are so many people here it is hard to believe someone reads all of this. Maybe they have some overall grade of average posts and the machine puts that in. You ought to do a blog asking AR gods how they do that. I always figured they hated the silly stuff, and while I have never had a Nutsy blog featured, they did put it in their daily Email newsletter a week back so I figure they do not want to string me up either.

Steven, they might be able to do points based on the number of different commenters. When we just josh back and forth and play they probably could tell that by a machine. They can't possibly read everything. I've seen several blogs asking about points but there have been no answers. Activerain has been so sluggish the last few days, I've had a hard time commenting on anything or pulling up anything.

DEC

2008

Barbara,

Yes, today I would have just as soon had a root canal. So slow. Seems a bit better now.

DEC

2008

Comments are not coming through but I notice a nice light blue around the answers to comments.

JUL

What I want to know is did you get new glasses? Kate

Kate, Barbara has a special kind of glasses that makes all dead birds look like crows:)

Charles, I also have a voodoo recipe that will raise that crooked crow from the dead and let him try again........but Nutsy may refuse to let me use it.

I don't know Barbara, Raven tells me she is pretty happy where she is---where she can be an "equal opportunity harasser" without fear of cats, squirrels, or Smiths:)

Shhh... Nutsy will never find this. Do you really think I added S. Smith 9 times today during my corporate reorganization?

NOV

When did these people post these comments. Godmother, that Mrs Kate is a snipe in the grass.

Nutsy, Godson

DEC

Nutsy, you are such a cry-baby. Sniff, sob, moan. Is that the best you can do? Ms Kate

Kate, Nutsy and Charles, keep sniping away on this blog and we may reach 100 comments. What kind of prize do I get for that?

Ms Barbara, your blog will be like the Super Bowl. Your prize? Disneyland of course. [No outside squirrels allowed at DL though]

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