Flora and her packrat life are perfectly ordinary, perfectly predictable.
Odessa Sawyer is an artist and illustrator living in Santa Fe, New Mexico..
She\'s also a world traveler, has a special fondness for visiting India, and enjoys blogging about her travels.
Now living in a strawbale house she designed and built in Aztec, New Mexico, she talks to packrats and plants and bugs and the moon every chance she gets.
She has camped and explored across the region in a \'79 pop-up Volkswagen van with her two sons, now grown, and once carried along a stowaway packrat.
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, her ranger career sent her to this high desert and canyon country, where she grew to love the broad landscapes, plants, and creatures.
Can she survive dangers that seem to lurk around every tree stump? And how will she ever get home? About author(s): Terry Nichols served thirty years as a National Park Service ranger, protecting and interpreting parks located primarily in the southwestern United States.
Flora tucks the story of the home deep in her heart...then tumbles into a faraway canyon.
They stay away now, ever since a killer wiped out a litter of pups and took over.
Countless packrats have raised their young and left their marks and memories there.
All this is about to change when old Grandma Mimi tells Flora about their ancestral home, stuffed in a dark crack in the cliff.
Ever since she was a wee pup, other packrats have warned "beware!" and Flora\'s stomach twists into knots.
There\'s only one thing--looming nearby is the Dreaded cliff.
Flora\'s perfect life is all about snuggling in her treasure-packed nest and \'snibbling\' snacks with her packrat pal.
Besides, they eat packrats.
And she would never talk with a blood-thirsty owl, because everyone knows owls can\'t talk.
She\'s never flown through the air, nor drooped herself before a kangaroo rat king.
She avoids strangers, especially opera-singing porcupines and rabbits that make prickly pear cactus pads talk.
Flora and her packrat life are perfectly ordinary, perfectly predictable
