remember when i dropped the clippers in the lake this summer? i was talking to bev on my cell phone and trimming a bush on the end of the dock and plop, the clippers fell in the water. luckily i was wearing my swimming suit and i jumped in and felt around on the bottom of the lake with my feet and was able to retrieve them.
that was a good day.
this morning, however…
it started out well. it was warmer than i thought it’d be, and kind of humid. i took the dogs running and we all had a good time.
we got home and stood out on the dock and the water was perfectly smooth and a fish lept out of the water and it really was so beautiful that i wished others were there to share in the beauty and peace of the lake.
we sat down on the edge of the dock and i dangled my feet over the edge and the water level is low enough now so that my running shoes didn’t get near the water. i thought about sitting there for a good long time but decided not to tarry because of all the things i have to accomplish before we leave for DC.
Noodle was wearing mollie’s leash, mollie had no leash on, and i had joined noodle and numie’s leashes together so that numie had a longer leash. i unhooked them and stood up…and watched noodle’s leash fall into the water. glug glub, it sank right down leaving a trail of bubbles.
damn. how could i be so stupid, yet again?
i didn’t think it would sink but it did.
i thought i’d jump in right there and maybe i could get it with my feet like i did with the clippers. i decided instead to walk down the ladder.
the water was kind of cold, but i was hot from running so even though it was initally a shock, it actually felt kind of good. i could touch the bottom at the steps but realized that the water was a lot deeper at the end of the dock.
i swam around and came to the place where the leash had sunk. there was no way to touch the bottom with my feet, so i’d have to dive down for it.
i’m sure i’ve mentioned that i used to be such a bad swimmer that one time when i was a kid swimming in a hotel pool a woman was going to dive in and save me because she thought i was drowning.
my swiming has improved since then, but i didn’t feel like diving down in the murky water. but i did it. and i couldn’t even reach the bottom of the lake.
damn again.
i tried it one more time, telling myself JUST BE BRAVE, GRACE, but that didn’t help at all. i realized that the leash would have to stay there at the bottom of the lake until some later date when somebody better at diving could get it.
i thought about calling my brother david, who i might be able to coerce out here to get it right away. but it quickly got cloudy and started raining buckets so i figured he wouldn’t be so keen on swimming.
when i was walking up to the house, dripping and squishing as i went, i remembered that i’d tucked amy’s house key into the waistband of my shorts. OH NO.
by some miracle the key was still there.
whew. so only one thing lost today.
but now i have to go buy noodle a new leash in addition to the many other things that must be accomplished in the next couple of days.
in the middle of all this stuff this morning, randy called me because his state car had stopped working because he’d had the oil changed a couple of weeks ago and i guess the guy who did it didn’t replace the oil filter correctly and now the car was dead and he needed a ride from somewhere to somewhere but i had to take a shower and give a massage and was already feeling a bit stressed by the general state of things.
after my massage randy and mom showed up; mom had rescued him, so we all went out to lunch. kevin joined us, and a lovely time was had by all even though there were SO MANY THINGS I NEEDED TO BE DOING.
right now i have to get the laundry out of the dryer. it keeps beeping at me every few minutes.
last night we had another rehearsal. before i went, kevin read my part with me. at the end of the play i get to keen; keening is an irish loud wailing kind of noised, and kevin and i started keening which made mollie HOWL along with us.
so mollie is quite happy for the moment, until we leave her to go on vacation and she feels forlorn and depressed and abandoned.
it’s always something.
ok then,
wednesday already grace.