Making It Up As I Go Along #619

Pet Toad

Sometimes I want to catch a toad

Like in rhymes caught by the toe

Make a home in my backyard

With extra fencing so he won’t go.

Grasshoppers, worms and insects

There’d be plenty there for food

I’d even find him before I mow

To mow my pet would be rude.

But then I think no toad would like

To be confined by my big fence

Not with toad world across the street

His forested world that’s so immense.

So I resist a capture of a pet

I leave him to carry on his way

For in a way this forest is my yard

Perhaps I’ll see him again some day.

MONDAY…

--- Start of a short week.  There was talk I’d have to go back to CPSIC for a bit to cover for a team, but find out today that this won’t be the case and so instead of working there on Thursday and Friday, I’m taking them off.

TUESDAY…

--- Friday on a Tuesday is ok by me.  I don’t miss much about CPSIC, but I do miss the four days off.  I’ll be off five days now with the Canada Day holiday… so it’ll be like old times for the first time in a couple of months.

WEDNESDAY…

--- Canada Day is fairly easy going for me.  Hang around the house much of the day.  Watch baseball on TV… Check out some pretty stormy weather blowing through.  Then it’s over to Harley’s for supper next door.  Meet his daughter and granddaughter and have a nice evening with good friends.

THURSDAY…

--- Like old CPSIC times on my days off.  Quiet times… go for a walk across the street… mow the lawns.  Pretty peaceful.

--- I am being driven crazy by mosquito bites though.  They never much bothered me as a kid but it seems every year older I get, they love sucking my blood more and more.  And my body reacts to it worse each year.  This week I got a bite on my palm that drove me nuts for days and now there’s one on the inside of my index finger that irritates me every time that finger happens to rub my middle finger.

FRIDAY…

--- Another walk today.  Much like yesterday.  I do see the biggest toad I’ve seen since moving here.  This one is out on the street too.  I convince him to lumber up to the sidewalk and make his way over to the woods.  I don’t think he’d have done well with passing cars.

SATURDAY…

--- No walk today.  Largely to let mosquito bites settle down.  So another around the house kind of day.  It does make me miss the CPSIC life more actually.  Being away from the work place beyond regular two day weekends is a nice thing.  To get up without the use of alarm clocks… to go for groceries when everyone else is at work… To be able to hang out in one of my favourite places more often.  It’s good.  Still, the work in CPSIC was becoming a bit too routine after five and a half years… and being off shift is good on the body.  But I won’t rule out maybe heading back to the old department in a year or two.