windthread

quiet stitching on the Temple of Sun and Sky with intention to meet Alyssia and Emrie at B Garden to plant the Moringa and Red Malabar,   look at the boots she'd found for me online,   eat pancakes.   And just exactly as she called saying the pancakes were coming,  Tay bolted and all the Doe Goats who had just that moment come over the rise were visually locked in like statues,  how they get when they see something.   Wrong.   Standing stiff,  staring.   I looked and forms were in Sunny Ray's forest,  moving,  and i ran out.   From this distance i couldn't tell.  But it was wrong and Bad and as i ran,  Yelling,  LOUD and PROFANE,   they let him loose but two pit bulls had Sunny Ray,   bringing him down.   

down,  he was down

but i ran,  yelling  and  as i neared,  they let him go and the one larger tried to find the entry hole in the fence,  the other trying to get out the far corner

then it's a blur for a minute and the large one jammed his/her way through the fence,  the smaller still at the corner where i ran,  trying to push under

as Alyssia was driving she called 911 Animal Control    She got here and ran to block off the fencing which was a huge feat and Emrie stayed in her truck because she was afraid and finally to make a longer story short,  the Animal Control woman came and slowly slowly slowly softly softly softly walked up and leashed the one that i had somehow managed to keep.   Keep at that corner of Sunny Ray's forest yard.  

this is enough.  for now.   my body is still working to release it and it's been hours.   

We made a sling with a big towel and got Sunny on his feet. His one front leg is dangling.    Alyssia carried him into the Curry House where he is now as this Worm Moon is Rising.  We closed the Doe Goats into their original Doe Forest.   It's Dark.   Quiet.   A new mobile vet can come at around noon tomorrow.  If it looks like it's needed sooner  in the morning,  we will drive Sunny Ray down to UC Davis.

all this was enough.   But second,   which is as difficult to absorb,    Neighbor Dave,  who is a self appointed Knows Everything person,  showed up over the fence line in the beginning when i was yelling and running and i yelled…Whose Dogs Are These and he gestured…maybe out there,  and then

Disappeared.

for the duration…i was there.  at the shared fence line for maybe a half hour with the second dog….he disappeared.  Totally gone.  

so i know now.   I am on my own.   Ok.  and so,   we Go.   Worm Moon.   I breathe   Ask.   Breathe.   However it can go.