Cats and Catching Up, Stranded in the Desert

June 9^th

        Went to LA to see ‘Wicked’ and it was delightful, go if you can. I have unusually vivid dreams when I travel (once I do fall asleep) and this was no exception. The trouble is, once I’ve gotten up and gotten oriented to the new environment all I remember is that the dreams were really detailed, and somehow - ordinary.

June 10^th

       

        There are new kittens in the house, so I’ve been too pre-occupied to make many dream annotations. I did dream of the kittens the first night they were here. I dreamed that N and I had taken them down to see Mom and Dad, while I was on the floor with the calico, who will probably be ‘Embers’, she learned to say “box” with a cute little lisp. I was hiding one of her toys in various items, trying to get her to learn “box” and “can” and “sock” so she could go to them when told to.

        “Where’s the toy?” I asked after putting it in a box from a deck of playing cards.

        “pboxth” she meowed back, rather than attacking the box, which is what her brother would do.

June 11^th

        The new kittens are still absorbing much of my morning energy, even though I don’t really do much other than talk to them in their safe-house, a four foot by 3 foot cage that keeps them safe from the currently disgruntled older cats. In another week, the grumpy fur children will have forgotten that the kittens weren’t always there, and they will start asking for them to be let out to play. Time not only heals wounds but indignities as well.

        I did dream, and it was a two part dream. I tried to memorize titles before climbing out of bed, a trick that usually works to recall the dreams. Unfortunately both titles were forgotten on the way into work. I do remember that the second dream took place on the water, in a sort of small houseboat about 12 by 16 with the pilot house and kitchen in the same place. In fact, I think the faucet was also the tiller. There was no entry on the sides of the boat, only from the top and from a four by four opening into the water in the center of the boat.

June 12^th

        Again with the memorization failure.

Today, June 13^th

        I was roasting in the desert; I was trying to make shade for myself and N under Little Red. I had the sun-shade closed into the hatchback and then held to the ground with some rocks. I’d turned the car so it would help provide shade in the afternoon. I’d pulled the seat covers off and had covered both the front and hatch windows as much as I could.

        N and I were sipping water, waiting for night to push the car up the incline in hopes of bump starting it. I still had lots of amps in the main battery, but the starter battery had died (lights had been on all night.) I don’t think the starter battery was bad, just drained. I was hoping the heat wouldn’t cause more problems.

Ad astra per technica,

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