Monday, Jun. 11, 2007 - 6:03 p.m.
Hero of the Beach ******************
My friend Sarah came over after her shift in workhell to help me eat up the rest of the leftover feast vegetables and as a bonus, she brought along a few frozen Veggie Burgers no matter how much I coaxed him offering choice tidbits Jinky was not interested in a fake piece of meat afterwards as I was making tea I stupidly l reached through the steam cloud of the boiling kettle I got an instant nasty steam burn on my tender white inside wrist I could smell myself cooking i smelled a little like corned beef and was soon rather scarlet there in no time a huge water blister formed so i wrapped myself up and went on living we all walked down to the lake to enjoy the sunset Sarah, JJnky & me Sarah thoughtfully brought her camera and let me shoot Jinky as evidence that he will walk right in the lake and stroll along the wet shoreline to step into the shallow water swat at the waves sniff at the algae manouver around boulders and march along huge naked washed up tree trunks Jinky was glad for the extra attention that a camera offered and took delight in how cool and pleasant it was at the waters edge all notions of time disappear when everything is so wonderful streetlights went on and the bugs came out so we went back home Jinky following but he tended to stray onto the road more often than was a good idea Sarahs Mom stopped to pick her up and drive her back into the heart of the farm country darkness where the wild coyotes roam and the orchards, in season groan with their loads of golden fruit I looked at my steam burn it was a major owie the blister was a wet itchy 2 and a half inch disc and I remembered from St Johns Ambulance to never pop a steam burn blister just let whatever nature does take care of it In walks Jinky fresh from hunting moths by porchlight he decides to be a funny guy and sneaks up on me jumps in my lap feighning affection but secretly wants to bite me In a flash he power knaws my exposed wrist right on the steam blister it breaks and a flood of blister fluid squirts all over him all over me me and all over the keyboard I let whatever nature decided take care of me and nature _bit me and I leaked all over everything I was glad that the pressure subsided of its own will Jinky licked his lips this was almost as tasty as my blood and he almost seemed to ask " Was there any more ? "
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