41. Bennett
FORTY-ONE
BENNETT
Things to Tell Marley
13. Yogurt caught a rabbit today. I must have stood there for 10 straight minutes just staring at him. It was fine, not even a puncture wound, thank goodness. I don’t know if I could ever look at him the same way again if he’d killed it.
14. Teddy was telling us about working with some arborists abroad. He trained here and then decided to do some traveling, picking up odd tree jobs in different countries. I’m not sure how legal it was, but he’s got some good stories. I bet you’d have a lot to talk to him about.
15. I had my first therapy session in a while today. We talked a lot about you.
16. Remind me to tell you about the team dinner we had last week, specifically Cass, ghosts, and the Hores.
17. I have adopters all lined up for the Dalmatian puppies. It’s going to be weird when they’re gone, but I think it’s for the best. I don’t need to add puppy training to my tasks right now.
18. Sophie was home over the weekend and showed me some pictures of you photographing the cows. You looked like you were in your element. Maybe livestock photography is a possibility.
19. I went into town today to grab supplies. I may have gone a bit overboard on things for Lloyd, and then I felt guilty about that so I got more than I needed for the dogs. On the call later with my therapist, I mentioned the spree and he suggested that maybe it was me hoping that if they have everything they won’t want to leave. If I’d had more to offer, would you have stayed? I don’t know what more I could have offered
20. I found Jason in the dog field today. Karl is now convinced that Jason just wants to be where the dogs are. The dogs were happy to discover the patties he left behind when I let them out. No one is allowed to lick me for another week at the earliest.
21. The kitchen is done. Well, almost done. I think you’d agree it’s an improvement. There are some other projects I’d like to start now but
22. I actually watched the news tonight, hoping they’d have a story on Syria. I don’t know if I’m disappointed that there was nothing or happy.
23. What you do terrifies me, but I’ll support you no matter what. I should have told you that when you were here.
24. Why isn’t this getting easier?
25. Is it pathetic that I’m holding off starting other projects in case you want to help with them?
26. We lost Clarence today. I buried him next to an old oak tree at the back of the property. The house is eerily quiet at night without his snoring. I kind of hate it.
27. Daisy stops at Clarence’s grave every day before and after our walks. She eventually catches up to us, but I don’t rush her. Funny how I never noticed her pay much attention to him while he was here.
28. I fucking miss you.