But soft!  What is that lurking in the lower right corner of panel one?!?  A flat screen TV!!!  Right next to the loomed/ woven Indian blanket hanging on the wall at a 45 degree angle!

And Rusty! Besides not “watching the otters,” apparently watching television also makes your right hand and right foot shrink!!  Or maybe that part of you didn’t make it back through the time machine…  Your hand and foot are stuck in the “five years ago” mode when you were six or seven.  If Rusty was allowed to utter an expletive, surely he would be doing so now!

But back to the modern implement…  how is it that every now and then a hint of the present day invades the Trail-verse?  Just to keep us readers on our toes, I suppose… But then where is the satellite dish?  Surely cable can’t have made it to that remote reach, or is Poor Rusty limited to what can be grabbed over the air?  Let’s hope not, since he would be a natural audience for “River Monsters” or anything on NatGEO…  Or is he a fan of Ellen and Oprah?  One can only wonder…