A blessed Friday night at the end of a long, tiring, and stressful week. MeeMaw and I have spent a very quiet evening here at Possum Cough, reading and writing and listening to good Irish music and drinking good strong tea and coffee and eating grilled cheese sandwiches and rough bread with real butter and tart grapes and listening to the wind moan under the eaves and the cows calling to each other across the holler and watching the cats twitch in their sleep and the shadows lengthen across the fields of what will very soon be yesterday.This morning, our pregnant barncat Frito met me at the breakfast dish. An animal's dependence should never make us feel arrogant. It should make us remember our own dependence and neediness.
I took off a couple of hours early today, since MeeMaw was getting off at 2:00. We met at the StirFry Cafe and had a late lunch/very early supper of sushi and lo mein. Then MeeMaw headed north to the farm while I stopped off and bought some lumber for our other raised bed, along with some peat moss and topsoil to add to the red clay in the beds.
When I got home, I cut the lumber and assembled the bed. When I was finished, I thought I might peek at the bird's nest in our grill, since I forgot to thwart the construction project. I opened the lid, and my first thought was, "Somehow, this....thing....has got to be stopped."
I enjoy the birds, but I don't want them taking up residence inside one of our cooking accessories. The last time I went by MeeMaw's clinic to visit, I stopped to say hello to our old buddies, Cromwell and Pippin. They were a-chirpin' and a-tweetin' in their big cage with the other birds. Quite a noise.
Then I went outside to look around. While strolling in the dog-walking yard, I saw some friendly canines and went over to say hello. It must have been the misty cool air or something, but I had the urge to start singing. So I belted out a Scottish lullaby.
MeeMaw was at the back door to the clinic and just happened to have her camera. She caught the dogs' collective reaction to my musical offering:
So I shut up, because I'm a quick study.
I went back inside and got to watch one of the vets do an exam on a dog. Seems I learn new things about animals all the time.
Time to read and relax a bit more before bed. Tomorrow is supposed to be a very pretty spring day, and if it is, MeeMaw and PeePaw will be very busy with farmish things.
Rest well, loved ones.
