Detectives at work - Stay at home with the Grand!

On Monday, Dulci came to us for the day.  It was beautiful - a tad breezy - but an awesome day for the playground and so off we went.

These days, we are orphan girls trying hard to stay out of the grips of the evil orphanage - think Annie!.  Sometimes, we are running away from a certain tycoon who sells everything. Dot - as D calls herself - works for A@@@@@ Prime editing videos. (I did NOT make this up.) I, Mary Ann, (not my real name, haha) work in one of the warehouses and it is HARD work.

But on Monday, we did not have to report for work because...nobody actually did, except first responders and medical personnel and support staff and postal workers, etc.

We maintained appropriate social distance from the others on the playground - grandparents and their grands.

Before lunch, we went home, grabbed our notebooks and went out for an adventure walk.  We wrote down everything of interest that we saw, including a pipe sticking out of a clump of grass, daffodils, plastic from a car, we think, grape hyacinths blooming in the middle of a lawn, and a huge pile of sticks stacked next to a tree.  Little did we realize that, much later in the day, these notes would come in handy.

We had other adventures right after lunch.  Then we got to work at our OTHER job as Dulcinator the Investigator and NanaLou, the Gumshoe.

We wait for your call.

We received a (completely fictional) call that pets disappeared from the neighborhood in the last few days.  Who could be responsible?  We floated several theories. But I remembered something from our adventure walk. Why would anyone have a big pile of sticks in front of  their house?

Dogs love to chase sticks!!  We agreed that this was certainly a clue.

D wondered if the pipe she saw could actually be where a laser pointer came out to lure all the cats in the neighborhood to play.

We are - I have no words for how clever we are.  So, now we just had to figure out which one of our favorite criminals may have perpetrated this theft of cats and dogs.

We examined the car of BGR (Big Gray Rabbit) and his crew of "workers", Hog, the Hedgehog and Fiddle-i-Fee, the fiddler and... you will not believe what we found. Plastic strips were missing from the edges of their car doors.

We caught our bad guys as they were loading up another (fictional) puppy into their damaged car.  Within hours, all the pets had returned to their (imaginary) owners.

Dulcinator was proud and happy to tell the last caller.  "We work for free.  Stay out of trouble."  Actually I added the "Stay out of trouble" part.

It's good advice. Stay out of trouble. Keep your distance. Be kind.  Wash your hands, etc.  Dulcinator the Investigator and NanLou the Gumshoe will be here to take your call!  We work for free.