A devil on a snow-covered roof

Part of our 'neither a cat nor a fiddler' on the roof series.

Glancing out of a window this morning, the resident K-landnews philosopher pointed at a series of foot prints in the snow and said: I wonder what that is.

You need to know that "I wonder what that is" is an action trigger for our team. Upon hearing this phrase, or the shortened "Wisconsin Tourist Foundation" or other action stimuli, the clipboards come out and the pencils fly.

Anyhow, seconds after the philosopher uttered the sentence, the team was engaged in a collective stare.

Looks like an animal.

But the prints are a yard apart.

Hm [indicating thinking by philosopher]

I'd say it's a cat.

Spaced a yard apart, that would be a really big cat.

Are ours in the house?

All accounted for, sleeping in a pile upstairs.

Well [indicating more thinking by philosopher], then it must be the devil.

[The sound of silence]

Okay.

They look like hooves.

Guess so.

That'd be cool.

We will not go into details of the ensuing discussion about using movement sensors or a 99 euro night vision device from local grocery discounter Aldi with a small web cam to get a video of the devil. As to the more elaborate critter cam scheme, suffice it to say that none of the team members was willing to volunteer to strap a critter cam on the devil.

We will keep you posted on further developments.