Observation - March 5th, 2020, Thursday

It is 5:27 in the morning

Kitty is yowling for attention

She is unhappy with the food in her dish

She wants something different

Something fresh

She doesn’t want the supplement I give her

To strengthen her joints, and her back legs

She is seventeen and getting arthritic

She wants to play

She cannot jump anymore

She does not like to play string

While laying on the floor

I lift her to the window

So she can watch the dark street

Observation - July 4th, 2019, Thursday

It is cool in the morning, and sunny

People walking by the lakeside, dogs alongside them

The air is still

The face of the water is smooth and glassy

Millfoil breaking the surface near the fishing dock, by the shore

Listen to the walleye jumping

The sound of running shoes thumping

It is slow on the street

Observation - September 3rd, 2018, Monday

Observation

I listen to a car roll by outside my open window

The sound of traffic is low, I have not noticed any busses

There is a beeping like an alarm going off at the nursing home across the street

Or of a van backing up, but it has been going off for hours

It is Labor Day today and the city is still sleeping

Summer is coming to an end

It promises to be warm today, not hot, the breeze is cool and dry

Kitty is running from window to window, chortling in her brisk meow

There is something happening outside

A born squirrel, or a chip monk in the tree

They vanish, and she grows quiet