It's been steadily warming up here. I turned off the heater in the tank room and so far, so good. About two weeks ago I think I saw dirt for the first time since last year when the snow fell. The driveway hard pack was scraped away last week into big piles of snirt (snow + dirt = snirt), and I am starting to see grass and old fireweed emerge from the melted away edges of the snow.
I switched coats, from my heavy winter puffy coat to a lighter jacket. And I'm not wearing three to four layers anymore. Just a shirt and a jacket. I lost my hat, and one day I actually forgot to switch shoes when leaving my studio and ended up wearing sandals outside!
You could say that things were warming up. You could say that Spring is here.
So imagine my dismay to wake up at 8:30 and see lots of snow falling and sticking. I tried to get up and feel good about the day but every time I looked out the window I just got mad. So I went back to bed. Sofie was already there and Ole joined me and we all fell asleep...
...and I dreamed. I was with Ole and Sofie at Denali National Park. Someone else was with me, but I don't remember who. Some guy. He stupidly opened the back of the SUV and just let Sofia jump out. She promptly leaped down an embankment and pounced on a GREEN bird and ran off with the bird in her mouth disappearing into the woods.
I didn't even bother to yell at the moron who let her loose, I just ran after her, trying to keep her in sight. She circled a little bit and then literally disappeared and I lost her with no idea where she was. Of course I was freaking out. She's part coyote, she'll get shot for a coyote, she won't come back....etc.
My dreams generally have some comedy, but while I was in the dream there was only this desperate fear, and heart pain, and all I wanted to do was get people to help me find her. I went into a gift shop and started asking if anyone had seen Sofia. No one had. I kept walking and, as they will in dreams, the building got bigger and bigger. Eventually I had to pee. I went into a bathroom and got all the way across a huge room, passing sinks and suddenly heard MEN'S voices. Uh oh. Then I heard tinkling on porcelain. Peeked around a corner...urinals and guys....ack ack ack....totally forgot I had to go at that point! I tried going back out the door I came in and suddenly I was in a men's locker room, complete with naked guys! Ack ack ack! I'm backing out, begging them to tell me how to get out of there, they are pointing some in one direction, others in another direction and it's so embarrassing! I'm still terribly anxious about Sofia and asking them if they would look for her. (It wasn't guys with good physiques. It was regular guys with pot bellies, scrawny chests and stuff. Guys with good bodies, that's a DIFFERENT dream!)
Somehow I finally got out of the locker room/bathroom and back outside, and still no sign of Sofia. There seemed to be no hope, and then I woke up, realized it had been a dream, and knew she was right here in the room with me. OH what a relief!
Then I looked out the window and the snow had stopped, and the sun was peeking through! Well, I thought, maybe this day is going to be okay anyway!
And just to make that thought solid, something else happened just a few minutes ago. While typing here on the computer, I heard Bucky start going "ACK-ACK! ACK-ACK!" over and over and very annoyingly. Suddenly his ack-acks were joined with a high "WOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOO!" Ole was right on my feet, it had to be Sofie! Ole and I ran upstairs and there was Sofie, curled up on the bed calmly singing away while Bucky continued acking. She was clearly having fun, not being predatory. Ole joined in for a minute with his own WOOOs. He jumped up on my chest and looked me right in the eye as if to say, "MOM! You gots to sing too!" If only I had a video of it!
Just the other day I'd been trying to get the dogs to sing with me. Gee, I never considered going ACK-ACK super loud to get them to howl!
