Remembering "Sapper" ....
2nd
June 2018 (Saturday)
.... The sun is beginning to burn back
the fog
bank that’s drifted in overnight, so we should have sunny and warm
(humid) afternoon. The yellow warning
for thunderstorms is still ‘active’ from lunchtime through to evening
time.
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| Elie harbour beach. |
I’ve
been out for the paper, and down to the harbour. There wasn’t much to see at the
harbour; well there was but I couldn’t
see it for fog.
15.00 After breakfast I decided to cancel doing
ladder-work on the front of Ivy over the weekend. I’ll
do the work thing on Monday... weather permitting. Conveniently, this left me with free time,
so, I ‘jamp’ on the bike and went round Elie estate.
I’ve
just been browsing the Live Lightning site and we are really lucky: there are thunderstorms to the south and west
of us; and north of the River Tay, but
so far, and fingers crossed, the nearest lightning to us has been a strike near
Kinross. That said the storms are well within ‘thundery headache’
range.
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| Kinneuchar Loch. |
20.00 Everywhere seems awfie quiet this
evening: like everyone has abandoned
me. The double yellow lines on Ferry Road
are active now (from 1st June through to 31st August) so Ferry Road
is bereft of cars; that could be why the
street looks so abandoned. That said
there are no cars in Ferry Wynd either.
Jings I’m beginning to feel lonely.
I’ve
had a fairly lazy ‘middle part’ of the day; but I am doing Fiendish Soduko’s faster. Oh .... what I did manage to do is find the
set of Water Colour pencils that I bought in Uckfield. I’m going to have ago at a water colour.... that
will be a change from doing Soduko’s. A
big change!
We
haven’t had rain today.... not here anyway.
The thunderstorms moved away to the
West, leaving us with a heavily
overcast sky. Actually it looks like we
could get rain of the non- thunder variety.
There has been a wee drop of rain in the West of Fife ... less than half
a millimetre. The gardens need a lot
more than that. The weather forecast
for tomorrow is for more of the same ... though we might catch some showers
overnight. I’m thinking of going to
Leven first thing tomorrow morning, to do a ‘shopping’. ‘Blob’ needs ‘Blob Goodies’, though it isn’t
urgent.. It really all depends on how I
feel after I’ve been for the paper.
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| Laburnum tree at the lochside. |
21.30 I’m heartbroken tonight. I’ve just read on Facebook that Graham and
Elizabeth’s Golden Retriever, “Sapper”, was put to sleep yesterday. He was a lovely dog. When I occasionally had the pleasure of
looking after him; “Sapper” would sleep
on his bed in the living room, and I was in my bedroom, with the door
open. I would wake up, at about 05.30, with the feeling that someone was watching me.
There was! A pair of big brown eyeballs sitting at my
bedside as if to say, “well, I’m ready, when are you going to get up”! Everyone will miss “Sapper”, he was a loving
and very much loved dog. Rest in Peace
auld friend; I’ll remember the many happy
walks over the golf course.
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| "Sapper". |
