New Acquistions:
Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing ~ Frederick Franck
New Magic ~ Bev Doolittle (AAAAAHHHHHH!!!! I finally splurged a bit and bought it! I love this woman!)
Listening to:
Science Friday on Talk of the Nation, NPR. They're talking about ice on Mars and how the invention of the compass changed the world.
Sad news: I lost Boo. She was six. She appeared here one night, not long after we did. I named her Boomerang because for the longest time, she would disappear for a few days but she would always come back. She was also the only cat who ever knowingly tested me ~ the power struggle ended one night when she took a swipe at my face, just to see how far she could push me. (Not that far.) We got along famously after that.
Ah, Boo ~ things aren't going to be the same without you.
Dream fragments ~
I am walking along the road that runs in front of my mom's house. She is with me, along with her sister Susie. It is a bright, sunny day and sunflowers are all alongside the road.
We go into some type of building. It is dark. I know that there is a horse in here ~ my dad's old Paint, Little Man. The horse begins to run in circles and tries to run me down in the process. I am able to stay out of the way, but just barely. I can feel the horse's body 'wrap' around me as it turns. I can't get control of him.
The building is now brightly lit. I am sitting on some kind of stepped thing and I have a small grey kitten. It is only a few weeks old. I am petting it but decide to put it down with the mother (a black cat) before it imprints on me. I am too late and the kitten runs to me instead of the mother. Suddenly, there is a pain in my right shoulder. When I look around, there is a huge lion sitting behind me ~ his claw stuck in my shoulder as he sat down.
Well, hell. Can we get any more literal with the horse imagery? Are we dealing with old news here? That's exactly how I feel when it comes to dealing with my dad and the whole horse farm business. Bleh.
You know ~ 'scrod' sounds faintly obscene.
I wonder if those truth.com commercials annoy other folks as much as they do me? I don't see how annoying the crap out of a person is going to help them stop doing anything. Whenever I see the one with the guy in the rat costume, my only thought is, "Can't he die a little faster?"
This new batch of crap they've put out is even worse. Dolls. Lots of wailing, screaming baby dolls. Whenever that commercial comes on, I wail and scream too but only out of sheer aggrevation. I'm a bit surprised that they let one stay on the air ~ it shows a young woman with a baby carriage. You hear the baby start crying and she tears down the street, as if she can't get away fast enough (I can understand the feeling), leaving the screaming 'baby' and carriage behind. I wonder if anyone will try that with a real kid and get away with it because people think that it's another anti-tobacco stunt?
However...whenever I see Austin Powers punch Britney Spears, I think of that quote from King of the Hill: "I think you hurt him ~ hit him again to make sure!"
* * * *
An incredible thing just happened.
I have been on this particular spot of land for almost seven years now and until today, the only wildlife I've seen has been a groundhog, a squirrel or two, one rabbit and a lot of birds. I thought that this place was almost devoid of most wildlife because it is right next to a major roadway, plus these two acres have the most trees on them, with the exception of one other piece of property.
I went out to sit in my 'grove,' a little spot surrounded by bitternut hickory and oak trees, and read. Of course, I was immediately swallowed by the Sea of Felinity ~ complete with Spike and his brother competing to see who could be 'the closest.' I heard a racket a hickory tree, but I thought that it was probably the blue jays again.
Squirrels! I saw three squirrels! All three had the misfortune to go near a tree with a nesting bird in it ~ and she gave those squirrels whatfor! She didn't give up until they were at least four trees away. That's not the most shocking thing, though...
I had a rare feline-free moment and was flipping through a book when I froze. I didn't dare move because there were two does not forty feet away from me! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I hardly dared to breathe so I wouldn't scare them. It was so hard to sit absolutely still. Eventually, though, their caution got the better of them and they went back the way they came.
Wow! That is the closest I've ever been to a wild deer. I've been close to some of the deer at Radnor Lake or Bledsoe Creek but those deer see humans on a somewhat regular basis. Wow.
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