Rainy spring day

Practicing my jawharp while felix does dinner dishes for first time ever. Cats want in, want out, bouquets of rugosa roses from when I pruned the bush in front of the big house. popcorn for desert, with dill and nutritional yeast, a mason jar of cleavers water which felix drank like some elixir, the way some kids drink a new flavor of pop. Spoils of of my garage sale ecploits, soft norwegian leather backapck feom the 60's, brass candlestick holder, fuschia candles, The Best of Robert Service, dirty white kids sneakers I'll wash and then dye with avocado pits, red cowboy boots...F loves them so much he might sleep in them tonight. "steve and ellen will be so happy I have these,". We've just split kindling on the back deck and both carried it in to be neatly stacked under the woodstove. Fiddles on the back of the green sofa, one big, one small, nature documentary on Borneo for after dinner. A candle lit for Armenio. Robins in the twilight, we put the sheep away for the night, two black, two white. The ever present sound of the creek just below the house. Gauges in the freezer door from a bear trying to pull the door open. Video calls with Papa daily to show him a new toy car or ask questions about a motorbike seen in passing.