For teaphile
Number Fifteen - Whimsy/Reality
Friday, May 2nd
Staying with Benton for the next few nights. As always, he seems to have changed a lot since I last saw him. He doesn’t really say much, and I’m not sure that I can find the words to say anything either.
His caribous stew has improved vastly.
Last week, Benton informs me, he had an accident up on Prince Rupert Sound: caught a nasty bout of hypothermia that narrowly avoided becoming pneumonia. He hasn’t been into work for the past four days. Looks thinner than usual.
His sled team is looking good. There’s a new dog. Benton tells me that it’s this dog that pulled him out of the Sound, saved his life. I imagine this is why the creature seems to be spending more time inside the cabin than out in the shed. Apparently, the veterinary surgeon Benton took him to visit down in Yellowknife, thinks that he may well be deaf. Jumping into the sound ruptured his ear drums and, while the vet is certain that this will heal, he is not sure if there was any damage to the inner ear.
I think Benton feels guilty about this.
He and the dog seem to be bonding-it certainly follows him around everywhere that he goes which at the moment. Admittedly, that isn’t far right now.
He is going to call the creature ‘Diefenbaker’. I really cannot imagine why.
Friday, May 2nd
Staying with Benton for the next few nights. As always, he seems to have changed a lot since I last saw him. He doesn’t really say much, and I’m not sure that I can find the words to say anything either.
His caribous stew has improved vastly.
Last week, Benton informs me, he had an accident up on Prince Rupert Sound: caught a nasty bout of hypothermia that narrowly avoided becoming pneumonia. He hasn’t been into work for the past four days. Looks thinner than usual.
His sled team is looking good. There’s a new dog. Benton tells me that it’s this dog that pulled him out of the Sound, saved his life. I imagine this is why the creature seems to be spending more time inside the cabin than out in the shed. Apparently, the veterinary surgeon Benton took him to visit down in Yellowknife, thinks that he may well be deaf. Jumping into the sound ruptured his ear drums and, while the vet is certain that this will heal, he is not sure if there was any damage to the inner ear.
I think Benton feels guilty about this.
He and the dog seem to be bonding-it certainly follows him around everywhere that he goes which at the moment. Admittedly, that isn’t far right now.
He is going to call the creature ‘Diefenbaker’. I really cannot imagine why.