Sep 25 2010
Sightseeing
So Audrey woke me up around 4:30 this morning. As I let her out onto the balcony, I noticed that it was flooded with moonlight.
I put on all the outdoor lights as usual, my talisman against predators, and went back to bed. The kittens took this opportunity to start climbing all over me like I was their personal jungle gym. I kept moving them away, and they kept bouncing back, like furry boomerangs. I finally gave up, and after a while I got up.
Amazingly, they stayed upstairs and are presumably enjoying the sleep I didn’t get. Sometimes I wish I had a bedroom door. Or walls.
On the bright side, I’ve been able to make coffee, and more importantly, drink coffee unmolested this morning, a truly enjoyable novelty.
Yes, world: I’m grinchy enough to be annoyed by kittens.
But you knew that.
Yesterday, I (temporarily) dumped the kittens in favor of dogs. Megan was meeting a friend in the village to help socialize Star. While they worked, Schatzi and I played, walking around and taking pictures:
You are here.
Shadowy gate.
The secret garden.
Wild rose trellis.
Naked Ladies beside a white picket fence.
Looking at these photos again, it occurs to me how timeless the village looks. It could be any late summer day in the past hundred years or more.