Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Sep 11, 2004

8th Sep, continued

Filed in Landmark-Hunting, Travel, Washington 2004

8th September, continued

On the way home from the dispute place, we stopped at an artesian well. It goes very deep and taps into free, delicious fresh water direct from the source. People come and fill up their bottles; the water pushes itself up and doesn’t need to be pumped.

That was pretty nifty.

At home, we had food when we wanted it, then spent several hours just chatting about Markeroni and Ravensmeet, this idea and that. Nothing that would be of interest to others, but it was nice.

LV and S have a nice garden, and it’s got quite the little vegetable patch. I have been weeding the garden path because I find it kind of soothing in small doses. Their garden backs onto a 40 acre forest/park and that is cool as well. They even have their own blackberry bush â€“ inasmuch as it grows just outside their fence. ;-)

There is a blackberry apple pie in our near future. ;-)

There are three cats:

Shakti is gorgeous and affectionate. She is 50% cat and 50% fluff. Orange with white trim. ;-) And a very bushy tail. We are good friends now. She approves of my lap and purrs easily.

Garuda is a large brown tabby male. He has affection on his own terms, and does a lot of glaring. He is not shy, but nor is he as forthcoming as Shakti. He gives warnings before telling you that he’s had enough, which is just fine.

Ariel is a tiny six pound brown tabby. This evening, Thursday, she let me pet her for the first time. That’s pretty huge, apparently. She is exceedingly timid.