The Next Day

June 2009 - BK Enjoys the Front Porch

BK is keeping the yard free of mice - at least the "ghost" mice. 

I woke up at 4:48 and actually listened to see if BK would call at the bedroom door (he would do that when he spent the night out - and would meow about 5 AM to be let inside).  The two "girls" were in bed with me - side by side.

After my morning shower, the usual ritual includes the girls lapping the water trapped in the shower door rungs (glass door).  Today Buddy was patiently waiting while Black Beauty finished the ritual.  Then Buddy wanted a cuddle.  We haven't had our morning cuddle in months!  It was very nice.

The temperature at 7 AM was 53 outside.  The girls were in the kitchen for breakfast, and for the first time in days they ate with gusto.

I went for a walk with my neighbor (who had lent me a pick for my afternoon labor yesterday).  I started missing the little fella all over again.  After the walk, Blondie went outside.  While I washed dishes I watched her in the "garden" - she went to the upper fish pond for a drink, and then the lower.  Then she sat on the bridge and looked around.  I think she was waiting for her pal, BK.


I poured a cup of coffee and went out on the deck.  Blondie sniffed around (in all the spots where BK would lie), and then came to be picked up.  We sat together - she purred while tears rolled down my cheeks.  I drank coffee.


Buddy came out and also sniffed around. The two of them "marked" the area using paws and the sides of their faces.  We came inside.  The girls wrestled - for the first time in months!


I think BK was sick longer than I knew.  Bandit was sick for a while and didn't respond to the treatments.  She didn't leave the vet's office the second time alive.  Her ashes are still in my dresser.  BK is in the backyard by the tall grasses.  I hope he likes it there.  

"Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road." - Karen Blixin in Out of Africa.