Sometimes I find strange things in our back yard. What makes the items appearances so strange is that our back yard has tall stockade fencing and locked gates so that no one goes in or out. Any visitors that we receive enter by the front door to avoid being trampled and licked to death by our pack of dogs.

A while back I found a rosary lying on the sidewalk. We live right beside a Catholic church, so while it was a long-shot, I looked around to see if some unfortunate church-goer had somehow climbed the fence and was attacked and eaten by the pack. Finding no evidence or remnants of a body I had to conclude that the rosary fell out of the sky. Several unfamiliar articles of clothing have also turned up…a man’s hat, a leather boot, several golf balls, though the nearest gold course is miles away, and a shredded wind sock of the type one sees at airports. It’s a mystery. Perhaps our yard conceals an invisible vortex, a portal to another dimension?