I hope you still manage to fit in a few parenting “Woohoos”

:)

I kept thinking the Pink Panther theme.

It’s something that’s been fashionable in the last few years to serve food “deconstructed” (eg deconstructed smashed avo or deconstructed cappuccino). I was riffing off that.

Sand.

It would have been quick for the mouse. As soon as a talon spiked its spinal column it would have felt nothing as it bled out.
A little owl survived the winter.