The travel home yesterday seem to go on forever and when I finally arrived I was so exhausted, but my energy renewed when it came time to lounge on the sofa and have Tin run back and forth and jump all over me giving me kisses and lots of hugs. I was also greeted with delicious food T had prepared – cauliflower, cabbage and Vietnamese pho. We even managed to stay up and watch last Sunday’s episode of Mad Men. Then this morning after sleeping over nine hours, I woke in my bed, to Loca’s wet nose and Heidi’s big ears and Blekica and Bam Bam meowing for their breakfast. Ah, home at last.
I walked the dogs after Tin and I had our breakfast and the weather outside was marvelous. Heidi wanted to go in the bayou so I let them off leash and another woman’s dog plunged in after them. She asked, “Have you seen anything in the bayou?” and I said, “Like an alligator?” and she said, “Yeah.” I told her about the small gator that my neighbors saw by the Esplanade bridge just last week, but as of late no five footers or larger. She said, “Isn’t it a beautiful day.” And I gave a resounding yes indeed.
And now sitting here on this fall day, I put the skeletons out front and the bones I hung from the wrought iron gate because after all Halloween is around the corner and I’m home.