Day: May 28, 2020

Day 73: Reveille

Yup, 5:55 is apparently the designated hour for Bessie to announce that she’s awake and that I should be as well. It goes like this: I hear the dreaded sound of her standing up and shaking, her dewlaps and ears flapping and her collar jangling, and then the determined footfalls as she makes her way directly to my bedside. There, she takes a jubilant leap in an attempt to get to me. I push her […]

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