things are still not right here. so, i'll keep it short. in case.
and no. Typepad is still having issues. this pic will not resize. but anyway, this is Tazmeena. She has been my Partner here, in this home for many many years. i really don't know how many, but approaching 20. Which is unheard of for a cat in NM who has access to outside or in, her choice.
and during the intensity of the Milking, i caught myself being Annoyed by her. as i was bustling about getting ready to milk, she was thinking maybe it was time for her to have new food in her bowl and was Saying things to that affect and ....i found myself
Annoyed.
speaking to her in an Annoyed voice....WAIT!!!!!
Tazmeena is slower now. it takes her sometimes two days to get any mouse here. it used to be just one overnight, or even half of one night. So, yes. she's slower. but she still Works. and she did not deserve the annoyance and harsh tone of voice. She sat quietly and just looked at me.
on the road down from where i work every other Monday, ahead, i saw something moving on the pavement. it didn't have the characteristic details that i could identify as maybe a tarantula, a horned toad, a lizard. and i drove around it, but then just past it, need to know. so i stopped in the middle of the road and left the car running to go back and see what it was.
a HUGE grasshopper thing. maybe a true Locust?, i don't know. yet. but huge. larger than my thumb and all covered with the most amazing patterns of Armor. like a rhinnosorous...or how ever that's spelled,,,just amazing....and going so SLOW. Walking. Walking across the road.
people look at that kind of high desert land and say nothing lives there. that it's empty. and that breaks my heart. SO MANY things live there and live there Well. doing their share of planetary imperitive.
