[ A small camping area, with a picnic table and a fire pit; massive boulders rise all around the clearing. ] Camping in the ‘woods’ was fun, but sometimes what one really wants is a place to poop. … look, no, you know it’s true. Anyway I found a TRULY awesome campground. Which happened to […]
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[ A deer is standing right out in the open, probably thirty feet from the camera, looking on curiously, ears perked forward. They’re really big ears. ] Sometimes when you’re on the road, especially with cats, you need to find a place to spend the afternoon, cos it’s gonna be too hot in the van
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[ A meadow rising to rocks and trees; the sky above is cloudy. ] Having unloaded, but not yet having made contact with the realtor, I decided to find a spot in the national forest for the weekend. … for a fairly liberal definition of ‘forest’ but there WERE some trees.
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[ A corner of a storage unit. Two sets of shelves have been placed along the back wall, and each holds a couple boxes. ] Part of the purpose of this trip north was to haul a bunch of my stuff up, so there’d be less to move later & possibly under a tight time
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[ Tyrava’s back doorknob, a fancy black lever, is fastened to a heavy-duty handle next to the door by a bungee cord. ] Not long after setting out — in fact, before I’d actually left the driveway — I realized that Tyrava was having a problem, which was that her back door wasn’t staying shut.
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[ A piece of white seaglass, shaped like the point of a spear & wrapped in thick copper wire, dangles from the center of a shallow arc of more wire; on either side of it are dangles with silvery-grey beads, with cowrie shells hanging from the bottoms. ] Not really a process post, cos I
[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby wearing a purple harness, stands in the doorway of the van, looking off to the side. ] Couple weeks back I packed Tyrava full of Stuff, shoved the boys in the van, & drove north to Colorado to look for land! I decided to go over Wolf Creek
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[ A nondescript, completely flat stretch of land, featuring sandy soil and low, spiny-looking plants. ] okay it’s a SLIGHTLY BELATED update, everything’s been higgledy-piggledy but LAND … okay it’s still a couple weeks til closing, but it’s all but ours it looks like this (see above) … I think, anyway. Might be one of
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, is flopped on a sleeping bag. Sun shines through the van windows behind him, lighting up his fur. He’s leaning on a box that once held laserjet toner. ] I took another walk last Sunday, close to the end of the day, as I usually do,
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[ A view from the ground, looking up through tall Ponderosa pines. The sun barely peeps through a cluster of branches, and many of the needles are brightly lit. ] I spent some time just laying on the ground, looking up through the trees, & it was … it was just gorgeous. They shimmered as
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