Author: Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Why am I cold?

I am cold this morning. It is 54F/12C. This is downright chilly for high summer out here. You know how you are fast asleep in bed but woken by being cold but not THAT cold, just cold enough to WANT to get up and get another cover for the bed, but NOT cold enough to…
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No Looking

The songs of night insects were the biggest change during the eclipse of August 2017. For a good ten minutes of so the crickets sung and the birds went quiet. We were way too far North to see anything but a partial cover of the suns surface viewed through a dirty welding helmet but close…
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Dogs Laid Flat Out

The dogs on the floor last night after I finished work. Flat and OUT. Because we had been flat out I suppose. Though their “flat out” makes more sense than the busy, busy “flat out”. I smelt pretty bad after a flat out day maybe I KNOCKED them out. Cats never look smelly. BooBoo follows…
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“cat on hot tin car”

You never know when you are going to see Moon. He does not eat here or hang about – you will just come around the corner and he will be sitting sadly watching something that is not you. Lady Astor cried all last night and all the night before. Suddenly she wants her baby back…
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A Set Back

As I was cleaning WaiWai this morning I broke through a ayer of fat and I found maggots growing under the last flap of skin from the deepest wound. This area just refuses to let go of that hard fatty dead scab. And the flies found a way in. Lovely Saturday discussion isn’t it! I…

