Dee can be seen sometimescarrying her umbrella, since she now lives in historic downtown Waukesha. She works her two jobs both within walking distance of our old Odd Fellows high-ceilinged apartment in the Putney Building. Today she left after lunch carrying the umbrella. Rain was threatening.
The official YIBAWEAN SOCIETY umbrella has a handle we carved from a sapling root ball found at the Schlitz Audubon nature preserve in Bayside WI. The shattered small tree was washing in the water and was salvaged.
We ground off the root ends and shaped it into what became an umbrella handle. It also serves as a direction finder. There is a small compass sunk into the cranium. And as protection, if Dee finds herself in a situation she cannot talk her way out of. A shillelagh. She would do a lot of friendly talking first, for the umbrella is formidable.
Readers wondering about the Yibawean Society can search the raccoon news under YIBAWE. YIBAWE is still our car plate number. The Society was founded in 1987. It's an already well-covered uncovered story.
