My Eyes Don't Want To Open
After Five Hours Sleep
Our cat Charlotte thought it was best
For me to get up
I tried to ignore her in the beginning
She climbs onto our bed
Gives me a few head butts
Sometimes she just wants to be patted
After I pat her and she paces back and forth
A lick one after the other
Across my chin and face
I said what is it now?
I cleaned the litter box out
Just before bed
So it couldn't be that
She must be hungry
When I got up earlier to go the bathroom
I noticed there was food in her dish
Our Charlotte gets picky
Her food is old
Have you ever heard of such a thing?
So here I am
Trying to make sense of it all
We normally open the slider in the morning for her
The weather has been so hot
We have all the windows and doors shut
I know she doesn't understand it
Even though I tell her
It is too hot outside
So we shut up all the doors and windows
To keep cool
Charlotte quietly walked off to our back room
Now I can go out and water or go back to bed
Which is it?
I really could use more sleep
Even though now would be a good time to water the plants good
We had three straight days in the 90's
We lost a few plants I see
They went bone dry
I finally got the blueberry bush and the Lilly in the ground
We just got one of our first tomatoes for the season
I have a rule
As long as we get one tomato
Then I will be happy with our homemade garden
This keeps me from being upset
When plants get eaten by an animal or they just didn't grow
I already have a big decision to make
The sun is up
My fatherinlaw use to say
The daughter's still sleepin
He use to love to tell jokes
Anything to make people happy
I am glad I got to know him when I did
I will have some good memories forever
He was in his eighties when I first met him
He was living alone in a senior center
His wife passed years before
Every day he would drive to the Armory
See a few of his friends
Then later when he couldn't drive
He took the bus
He use to put his bus money aside
In little baggys
I never knew it
Until after he died
We found them in his draw
He always treated me right
He loved watching his Westerns in the afternoon
I use to spend a little time with him
Then I had to leave right in the middle
I had to go to work
I loved it too
In the worst way
It broke my heart
Not only was I having fun
I wanted to see who would kill who
In life we get to spend time with our loved ones
Some how it is never enough time
We do some things and we wished we did more
That is the way life is
Challenging in so many ways
So as I head out into my yard
I have time to think
What can I do now
To enjoy more time with my family I have left
Before this time is gone too
