amy and jim left about 11 this morning, headed for miami, where it is WARM AND SUNNY. a perfect day to go there, because all day long it has been gray and cold. not COLD cold, like a few weeks ago, but yesterday the high reached about 68 and it was sunny and delightful and i took the dogs running and muddy water splashed up on my bare legs and it was all good.
today, though, makes me wish i was in miami.
instead, it’s a pet-sitting week ahead. things are very very calm and quiet at the moment. i’m sitting here in my bed and numie and noodle are sleeping next to me, numie buried under a flannel sheet.
we went running earlier and they enjoyed themselves but it was too cold and gray and damp for me.
i fed all the fish – before she left, amy showed me exactly WHERE in each fish tank i was supposed to put the fish food. and i couldn’t just drizzle it in there, i had to HURL it so it wouldn’t waft away and get caught up in some foliage.
this time i’m supposed to feed the special needs fish TWO shelled peas instead of just one. does that mean that the last time i did it, i was starving the poor fish? amy also demonstrated the hand-feeding again, cupping the fish who was swimming around at the top of the tank, upside-down.
i fed it the two peas, but when i was done i wasn’t entirely sure that it had actually eaten any of it. amy said i was supposed to keep cupping the fish after feeding it so it would actually swallow the pea instead of spitting it out.
so then i gave it one more pea, figuring that after attempting six separate halves, surely it got something.
only five more days of hand-fish-feeding. i’m sure i’ll be an expert by then. the fish will swim up to me and eat the pea right out of my hand.
i petted one of the cats, and she was happy about that. i couldn’t find the other cat, ellie. i’m sure she was somewhere staying warm.
and now, these two sleeping dogs…i’m getting kind of hungry and i think dinner might be a good idea. this means i’ll have to take the dogs home, because if i leave them in here by themselves, numie will pee and also possibly poop. i brought them over here a couple of hours ago and left the room for a couple of minutes…and when i got back, numie had peed and pooped. he keeps peeing on the edge of the big fancy comforter, and it’s a pain to keep washing it and it’s not holding up fantastically with all the washing. for some reason when numie comes over, peeing on the comforter is his number one priority.
aside from that, things are good.
ok then,
sunday night grace.