show me everything

 

sometimes

when he wants a walk

he shrieks wildly

sometimes

he claws and bites

sometimes

he sits near the door

and stares into me

and says

come

there is so much to see

and i stare back into him

and say

yes

show me everything

morning coffee with a midnight mouser

this post is sort of just a fun snapshot from life around this place...    

benji has become quite good at catching mice that, for some inexplicable reason, wander into his catio at night.  he believes in sharing the excitement of the experience and so brings the poor creatures into the house.  being human, i'm not that into killing or playing with mice so i send him back out with his catch and close his cat door, banishing him to his room at the back of the house and the catio.  in the morning i go into his room and if i can locate a mouse body i take it outside before i open his cat door and restore him full access to the house.  

on the morning captured in the photo below, the mouse body was somewhere in the catio and i did not dispose of it before letting benji in.  he came in and ate some crunchies in bed, as is his morning ritual once he wakes us, and then he disappeared for a few minutes.  as i was sipping coffee at around 6am he reappeared at the foot of the bed and proceeded to have an absolutely ecstatic time tossing and batting and flipping about a dead mouse.   he had such light in his eyes and was having such a great time that i felt like a complete villain for taking it from him---but i guess it had to be done.

benji and mouse, melina and coffee---a good morning

father's day

my dad always had a garden in the summer when i was a kid and for a little girl who loved to be outside in the dirt and sunshine it was the neatest thing.   he still has a great vegetable garden every summer.  i think i got the gardening bug from him and it is still the neatest thing.  it has been joy and medicine and refuge for me.   thank you, dad and happy father's day.

good job

 

he looks at me

something in his eyes

asking for reassurance

am i doing right?

and i don't know

how to tell him

don't know how to say

never have you ever

done anything wrong

everything

you have ever done

everything

that has ever happened

has brought you

here

now

and that

is exactly where

you are supposed to be

you are perfect

and you've done

everything

just right

good job

always

it was love at first sight

there's no doubt

but

it took some time

to let myself fall for you

there's something in the breeze today

whispering to me

calling me

back to some day we spent together

in the beginning

our beginning

when i could feel myself falling

and it was okay to let go

because i knew

you would catch me

always

scrub jay update

 growing, feathering, and napping...