Why I drag my feet

I drag my feet over all kinds of shit.

Just as a for instance, I’ve had my doctor hounding me about a colonoscopy for years. Ain’t gonna happen. There are just some things you don’t have to know. If my bowels are indeed consuming themselves from the inside out, what good does it do to know this?

Sure, you could “take measures.”

That tends to involve hugely invasive medical procedures that will a) make the payments on my doctor’s BMW for several years, and b) completely destroy my quality of life.

So I’ll take the quality of life, and the quality of mine is pretty damned good, thank you very much.

Just this afternoon me and the Farm Manager were sitting out in front of the barn, out of the wind. Every now and then a car goes by, but most of the time all you hear is the wind in the trees and the birds singing to one another.

Once in awhile an airplane flies over. I’ve used the Flight Tracker website enough now to know roughly where they’re coming from and where they’re going.

The northwest to southeast flights are usually heading to Toronto from points west in Canada.

The southwest to northeast flights are usually heading to Europe from somewhere in middle America. From Chicago to virtually any European destination takes you right over Falling Downs. So does Los Angeles to Zurich or London. Those are the ones where you wonder who’s on that airplane.

It’s not just passenger jets flying over. This afternoon I saw a red-tail hawk swing by with a couple of small birds in hot pursuit. They were mightily pissed, and Mr. Hawk was doing his best to evade them, without a lot of luck.

Quality of life.

Not much in my Globe and Mail today. Paul Waldie brought me up to speed on that French election. Apparently the far-left fringe candidate Melenchon is a communist and wants to align France with Venezuela. That’s the take on the French election from Canada’s newspaper of record.

I pity the poor folks who rely on the Globe for their news. They don’t actually send Waldie to Europe to “research” this shit, do they? That was about as lame a take on the French election as anyone could possibly imagine. An unpaid intern with an interest in politics could easily put together a more informative article from a computer terminal in their local public library in Toronto.

If you want some insight into the election in France, don’t read the Globe and Mail, read this instead.

Chloe is the real reason I drag my feet. She’s the cat I got out of the clinic where Karla Homolka worked. She’s got to be twenty years old by now. She has outlived all the dogs we’ve ever owned; Buddy, Charlie, Gus, Roxy, Peaches… and she’s on track to outlive the two hounds at Falling Downs today, Boomer and Lucy.

For the first fifteen years of our life together she studiously avoided me. The last few years she’s really warmed up, to the point where she follows me around from morning till night. She’s literally under my feet every moment of the day.

I drag my feet to avoid stepping on her head.

Tomorrow we’re off to the city to move Junior out of residence at U of T. He’s studying economics…

Where did I go wrong?