With Congress and the President at loggerheads over the budget and increasing the debt limit, all of the National Parks had been closed.  Did that mean that that Jerome and his crew of Sandhill Crane buddies couldn’t land or feed at the National Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, their usual wintering place?  It seemed that until the issue was resolved, all bets were off, and they might have to make reservations at Motel 6; would Tom Bodette still  leave the light on for them? . . . .  David, Sf.G.