May 16, 2008 – Finally, after five years of fruitless pursuit, Rose seems to have abandoned the imaginary squirrel she has been watching so avidly every day since the first week we came to the farm in 2003, his first and last visible appearance. Every day Rose stops, looks up, circles and waits. No more. Makes me wonder: was he really there? Or never there? Or perhaps he really was there, and has finally gone away? Rose never forgets, never quits, never gives up. So only Rosie knows, and she will never tell.