Midnight rambles
November 15th, 2007 by Bill
So the snow that had fallen earlier in the week vanished quickly yesterday as the hours passed and the temperature rose. By evening, it was fairly warm and the air was heavy with moisture - the sky wanted to rain (which it eventually did).
And the more the temperature rose, and the more heavy the air became, the more agitated and exuberant Molly Bloom became.
And the upshot of it all was that I was out in the back around 1:00 in the morning chasing her, trying to get her to come in. She, of course, thought it was a game. A great game! So she would run up to me, crouch down, and when I made even the slightest move, would tear off again.
She also became obsessed with the small pond in the backyard which had iced over earlier in the week. As it got warmer outside, the less solid that ice became. And Molly thought that was just great because she was able to break pieces of the ice off and eat them.
And so she’s running around in the back. And so she’s eating pond ice. And so sometimes I see her as she moves into the light and sometimes I lose her in the dark, though I can hear her.
And at one point, having lost her in the shadows of trees and bushes, I hear nothing. I hear this nothing for a long moment. And then I hear a crack! So I go down to the pond to see what she’s doing.
Molly is standing beside the pond. And then she steps out onto it. Then she trots across it and there is another crack! and she falls in the water, trots out on the other side, shakes the water off with an air of indifference, and heads right back to the pond because now there are lots of broken pieces of ice for her to snatch up and eat.
I can’t remember how long it took to eventually grab hold of her and drag her back in (she was extremely reluctant) but it was probably around 1:30 am. And she was soaked, breathing heavily, and wagging her tail wildly because, in the end, there is nothing as fun as running around in the middle of the night, falling through ice and watching some idiot try to catch you.
