she could acknowledge the possibility that there was a flying saucer three hundred yards around its outer rim buried on her property ; the possibility that some emanation or vibration from this ship had killed a woodchuck that had the bad luck to get a little too close , killed it so completely and unpleasantly that even the flies seemingly wanted no part of it ; she could deal with an anomalous menstrual period , a canine cataract in remission , even with the seeming certainty that her dog was somehow growing younger .