Thursday has arrived with the temperature a tiny bit higher than what has visited us the past several days. We should make it to the upper 20s today but shall dip back to the teens this weekend, followed by nearly a week in the 40s and one day reaching the 50s.

I had great intentions to accomplish a good deal of writing and some items for around The Haasienda. However, by 9 AM, my body felt so miserable that I made it a great day simply by watching documentaries all day and napping with the three younger pooches snuggled tightly against me. Harrigan, Colonel Deeds, and Hoskins each take turns sharing my pillow, pressed against my chest.

Harrigan seems to be improving in spirit but still does not come out to greet students when they enter. She remains on my bed, ever the supervisor, but not committing to being an ambassador as the others.

It is time to begin my day. Make it a great day!

A GLIMPSE

By Walt Whitman

A GLIMPSE, through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove,
late of a winter night–And I unremark’d seated in a corner;
Of a youth who loves me, and whom I love, silently approaching, and
seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand;
A long while, amid the noises of coming and going–of drinking and
oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little,
perhaps not a word.