Saturday, May 05, 2007
Tadpole Science
I’ve been sleeping better at the trailer than I have in years. It’s so incredibly quiet! Today I didn’t get up until about 7:30, which is late for me. I woke up before that, but it was so nice to open my eyes and see blue sky through the leaves on the trees outside my window that I didn’t want to get up. I finally did, though, and hiked up the hill to get some water for coffee (I still have to install a part to get water running in the trailer). I had bacon and oatmeal for breakfast, and then went to work digging some steps up the hill to the outhouse. I am really tired of sliding down it on my ass when it’s raining.
The Copenhagen Girl dropped off the Purple Cowboy a couple hours later, and he hung out with me while I labored at the end of a shovel. I made it a little over half way up the hill before I hit rock. I was exhausted, so I hung it up for the day around 2 PM. Tomorrow, I’ll borrow a pick axe and see if I can make it through the rock a la John Henry. Well, OK. Not quite.
Later in the afternoon, the Purple Cowboy and I drove over to the Worm Lady’s place. After a couple rounds of Red Hot Chili Peppers with a jump rope, her granddaughter showed us the aquarium she was filling with tadpoles from a nearby ditch. The new habitat was looking downright livable until Stella the dog decided to come over and take a slurp of water. “This is why it’s important to have a lid,” the granddaughter told me.
