Getting Our Ducks in a Row!

I cannot decide what to do today, gang.

I really want to pop in at the shooting range but it is a cold and dismal day. Part of what I love about going to the shooting range is that drive over there — all back roads. All hills and trees and fields and cows. Hawks and the occasional eagle circling in the big blue endless sky.

I love that. Especially on my day off.

It’s just so gloomy today. Plus, I have a bunch of housecleaning that needs doing. So, part of me wants to just stay home and clean.

Still another part of me wants to forget about cleaning and just sit at my desk and write!!

Since Peitor is involved in scoring a film in Canada right now, I won’t be hearing from him today.

And — so far — Sandra doesn’t need me today, either. So I could just sit here and write….

************

Here’s something you don’t often see around here these days — the kittens sleeping!!

And the 3 that have normal legs discovered — last night — how to get up on my bed and frolic around! It was so cute!!

But it was 1:28AM….

Oh, and lest me forget that I still have that family of amazingly adorable young cats that were ~~abandoned~~ left here by that young married couple a year ago…

One of them has learned a new skill! In the last 24 hours, THIS happened 3 times in the upstairs bathroom!!

(Yes, 3 complete jumbo rolls of TP in 24 hours because for some inexplicable reason I kept thinking he/she would stop doing it!)

***********

And we won’t even discuss THIS type of thing on 4 of my window screens….

Anyway.

***********

I had the coolest dream last night! It was so detailed and just so cool, so empowering. I can’t even begin to describe it. But the one thing I can easily describe:

Right before I awoke, I was singing the song below in the dream — every word of it. I hadn’t thought about this song in probably 58 years!! And I still knew all the words!

When I was a little girl in Cleveland, I used to sing this song in my bed at night. Really loudly, until my brother would shout “Shut up!” from his room across the hall…

Anyway. I took this song really, really seriously when I was a little girl. (I can’t even imagine what my parents were thinking, downstairs in the living room, trying to watch TV….)

But, I don’t know, gang — it seems like some sort of good sign that it came back to me all these decades later, in “a dream”:

"The Impossible Dream"

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest to follow that star
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To fight for the right without question or pause
To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star

c - 1965 - Mitch Leigh / Joseph Darion

*************

My life is at least interesting these days, if nothing else…

************

Okay!

No Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds today. But here’s this again!! Just ’cause I love it:

*************

And other than that, I guess I will close this and just sit and try to figure out what I’m gonna do today.

I want to make good use of this wide-open day today, gang, because I have 6 shifts ahead of me this week (and every week after that, until I go to NYC). But I also have —

Dinner tomorrow night with Kara at the glorious Granville Inn!!