SqEarl

one handed keyboard (left even) is not so fast or easy, so i'll make it breif. i had carpel tunnel surgery today. But that's not what I want to write about.

As you may have noticed a lot of time has been going into my domestic surroundings. One of the last thing i did yesterday was vacuum out the closet i built. When i turned on the shopvac and began pulling in dust the machine was blasting out hot air. I inhaled and found myself with my old dog SqEarl. The odor was strong, sweet and musty a tinge of wet dog softened by her yellow eye looking up at me.

She was with me from 10 week - 11+ years. too short to be honest. She was a wild one, and completely untrained. I wanted a dog and thought grad school would provide the time for good time together. It did and we walked for miles and miles along the greenbelt in Austin. SqEarl would run ahead and check back to make sure I was still there and safe. When Fig arrived she would follow SqEarl's every move on the trails (except the swimming).

Whenever it would flood the water in the creek bed was an astounding turquoise. We'd go down a quiet trail and wander for hours.

SqEarl developed bone cancer behind her eye and I ended up putting her to sleep at home on December 4, 2005 or 04? I have used the shop vac rarely since that time and was pleased to get a whiff of my dead dog today.

can't deal w/ the typing situation more to come...