Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper today in the anniversary celebration of Phyllis and the keeper as, in this season of love and nesting and mating, they mark their four treasured married years while the birds tweet sweet nothings and the creatures all murmur to each other of love and life together.
The sound of it all wafts through the open door and then it is joined by the beep-beep-beep of a car alarm, and before that alarm is finally shut off, it is joined by another off in a different direction.
It can mean only one thing: given the celebratory seasonal nature of this time, and the fact that it is the keeper and Phyllis’s anniversary, cars are joining in with their own version of mating.
Phyllis and the keeper have a Subaru which they will drive to Ishnala on Mirror Lake today for an anniversary dinner, while hoping that their car, which Subaru advertises as prone to “love,” does not fall for the smooth purring of an old Ford pickup.
Unkind observers might say that’s the kind of thing that happened to Phyllis. Not so, she says, and the keeper gives her an anniversary kiss in appreciation.
Photo by Bill Stokes