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Water in the Ear

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The whiskered, furry purring cat ambled slowly along. She was very late for her meeting but had gotten water stuck in her ear, which is, of course, a most uncomfortable sensation. She paused midstep to give her head a little shake.

The Jug from the Sea

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I sit here drinking from the jug. From the big carton of 2% milk, that expired yesterday. Still tastes creamy, and sweet. 1 gallon, 3.78 L. Soup is on the stove top. Beans, sauce, onions, garlic whole wheat pasta. Salt and pepper, to taste. My feet are cold, our house is 64 degrees, and I have a humidifier going in my room. The temperature outside is 23 degrees. My feet I would say are somewhere in the middle. I got hungry in the middle of cooking and made myself toast and eggs. He took a swig from the milk, jostling it in its opaque container. The milk is reduced fat. But he is thinking it will not reduce any fat. He weighs 250 pounds. Because of the eggs. Driving in the cold streets this night to the Sea and back. Children burned and brothers died. Makes for a soup night with whole wheat noodles. The heat just flared on, I can hear the muffled roar of the flame in the basement, coming up through the carpeted dining room floor. Carpets make for good flammable material. To the sea and...