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so I told Dude we were “going” “away” on “vacation” to a house that was
coincidentally our house and contained all our stuff, and he laughed, but
he decided to play along. Last night he carried the cat around the house
and showed her the view out the front door and loudly discussed whether she
would catch all the fishies in the lake. Wait, I said, is it a lake, or is
it a forest? or is it a canyon? or is it like, the moon? we should get our
stories straight.
it’s a lake, he said, and made us stuffed shells for dinner. (out of a
package of frozen stuffed shells, but i’ll take it.)
The cat wandered around the house yelling at us, as is her wont, and Dude
theorized she was still upset from the “trip” out here, since she doesn’t
travel well. (In real life, had we so much as put her into our car, she
would be under the bed for at least four hours, and would be shy of letting
us touch her for a day at least.)
before bed I put together a start on the Pandemic Sourdough Waffles from
BoingBoing (google Pandemic Sourdough Waffles and BoingBoing and it should
do the trick), and so this morning I got up and made those.
My mother texted a photo of her indoor/outdoor thermometer, which says it
is -6F there. It is 32 here, I sent back a screenshot of my weather app.
How funny that our cabin in the mountains should be so
idyllically-barely-winter.
My older sister chimed in that it was 20 where she is, and I’m just going
to attach the screenshot of the family groupchat because I think I’m
hilarious. (I’m in blue.)
[image ID: screenshot of an Android chat window featuring my entire
immediate family including both parents. The pertinent conversation is that
Katy says “We had 20 this morning… kids (and dogs and squid) have spent the
last hour watching the carpet of birds in our front yard through the big
windows.” Mom responds with an observation about birdwatching, and I answer
“I had a millisecond of real excitement there before I remembered you have
a cat named Squid.”]
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