Here we go! Farewell warm November. It was fun while it lasted!
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It was about 75° on November 5, 2022 and although I enjoyed it, it was also a bit unsettling. What are the implications of it being so unseasonably warm? I live in New Hampshire, and in other years, we may have already had our first snowfall.
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It got up to 71°F here today! In November! It was so warm, I saw a bumblebee on the Lantana flowers. Wow.
🌸 🐝 🌸 🐝 🌸
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some of it is definitely just Cope but I am, begrudgingly, grateful that Stellina and I have ended up having so much time together on our own. going from 2 dogs down to 1 (and the reverse) is a bigger shift in dynamic than I think a lot of people would expect.
obviously i love Stellina and we’ve always had some sort of bond, but my suspicion - which I now think was correct - was that she always was more attached to Boone than she was to me. it was very stark in the first few months after his passing what a big hit her confidence took. a lot of her more silly behaviors - the honking at the cat, wriggling around on the ground, sleeping belly-up, demand barking - immediately vanished. and it wasn’t that she wasn’t still an overall happy and content dog, but that she was just… less loudly so. she started choosing to sleep in her upstairs crate that was far out of the way of activity. she got exceptionally nervous around the cat and started getting fearful of doorways. just small behaviors like that that were easy to disregard in the moment but now looking back seem like a much more obvious picture.
it’s on me, too. while i took her on plenty of solo outings, we’ve definitely always had a more shallow bond than I had with Boone. and there’s lots of reasons (I had him much longer, he was an anxious one-person dog, he liked physical touch more). and it always kind of felt like while I “spoke” fluently with Boone, Stellina was more of a “well it gets the point across” proficiency instead.
it’s really only in the last month or so that it seems like things have finally fallen into place. that she’s back to being wiggly and mischievous and loudly so. and that I’m starting to look at her and call her and feel that same bone-deep fondness as I used to have with a very different dog. a little echo of love from another time.
It took me years to get to this point with Boone too - I always used to say that I liked him better every year. and I know at some point down the road I’ll be repeating this again, with a different loss and a different bond. but it’s just been a nice realization to see that both of us will come out the other side and be better for it.
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*cough* campfire zukki on the mind
(basically i tried to draw from this iconic reference and got carried away)
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