Hermes
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
That's what I called him. It would have seemed wrong, somehow, not to give him a name - the very least I could give him. The vet said he was so far gone, he probably felt very little pain and giving him an IV injection would only be a form of tort...
Yellow Cat
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
As far as I know, nobody ever gave him a name. But he's been around for the last couple of years, and throughout 2008 he became a nuisance.
He started coming into the house at night(using the cats' door, of course), waking me as he ravenously dev...
He started coming into the house at night(using the cats' door, of course), waking me as he ravenously dev...
Gratitude
posted over 3 years ago | 1 comment
U$S 1,000.00! The local government finally decided to take the risk and provide the necessary wherewithall to get my workshop back on its feet (just barely, but this summer I'll be back in mud, oh joy!). Collected the cash (100 fifty peso bills, t...
Rain - sorta
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
A while ago (11.30 pm) I posted a reply to Windnsea's nice haiku on rabbits at sunrise. There was a power failure while I was writing, so I unplugged the computer and went out to the gallery ('galería', traditional ground level covered porch in th...
More than a rescue operation
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
Sometime in the mid seventies, I became interested in rescuing and restoring the dwindling population of Perros Pila Argentinos (the Argentine variant of the Peruvian hairless dog, internationally recognized as a separate breed some years after I ...
Backup
posted over 3 years ago | 2 comments
I've just read bfdc's entry on backing up stuff on one's computer, and an old anxiety comes back to worry me. I bought a new machine last October (shall be paying for it until next October...), and the guy who installed it for me very kindly trans...
Summertime
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
13 Feb. 2008.
Haven't written anything for a month. Guess the national holiday mood has really got hold of me... But I finally emptied the goose pond a couple of weeks ago, as all the tadpoles had satisfactorily metamorphosed to toads and gone (h...
Haven't written anything for a month. Guess the national holiday mood has really got hold of me... But I finally emptied the goose pond a couple of weeks ago, as all the tadpoles had satisfactorily metamorphosed to toads and gone (h...
I sometimes think I think something worthwhile
posted over 4 years ago, updated 9 days later | 0 comments
14 Jan.2008. Have just seen RudyTooty's beautiful watercolour of a 100-year-old black lady in Eons' Art Gallery. What wonderful work she does! I was also reminded of my childhood in Buenos Aires: our father loved Negro Spirituals, and 'Nobody Know...
