Landed in Oregon X

September 7, 2007

It rained steadily a couple of hours. The earth sighed.

9/8/07

Cleaned the poop out of Annie’s pen. We have a 30 inch tray, about a foot wide. She pees in one part of the tray and poops at the other end. Annie takes her poop very seriously. She stepped, err hopped aside to let me shovel and when I carried a load of her pot out of the pen she immediately went and inspected. Like so many animals -- us too -- the prominent question is: What’s going on? What’s happening?

Today prepared raised bed for planting. Went to the Greensprings Nursery and bought flowers and trees and lettuce and onions.

9/9/07

Grandparents’ day. Off to spend time with A.J., almost 3 years old. Her mother (A.J. helped) had done chalk drawings on the sidewalk in front of their home. Went to the D.Q. Of course, A.J. is very smart. She does a passable job with scissors now. She is about where I was at age six. Hey! She said she loved Poppy.

Cappy or Capper or Casper, our white, deaf, long hair (now with short hair) Manx has become quite a hunter. He hunts birds and lizards and grasshoppers and dragonflies. Yesterday when I water the trees in the upper and lower pastures, he joined me. He made sure it was me. He watched. He followed me around at I watered. He got bored. For awhile he disappeared off into the bushes. He showed up again as I was about to drive the mowing tractor back to the house. I picked him up and offered to let him ride in my lap. He preferred the hood of the tractor. He stayed on the hood all the way back to the tractor shed -- may be 100 yards.

Pet Peeve. I read an article about how this some animal had human-like traits. It seems like it is always that way. Scientists are loath to guess what goes on within these creatures and things. Though approving Darwin, they are also loath to say this is where we came from and we brought most of our traits from these other critters and things. They say, Very few fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals and rocks and trees have human-like traits. But it didn’t work that way. The other way. They were here first. We, humans, have a lot of traits like fish, reptiles, birds, amphibians, mammals, trees and rocks. That is no surprise at all. That is where we got them.

Today, planted lettuce and onions for winter.