right now

right now we are having a bleak midwinter



a bleak midwinter is peoples for when your papa goes away to arkansas and it won't stop snowing on you and your mama in canadia and then you are naughty at the dog park so you cannot go there anymore for a little whiles and your mama has to walk you around and around in all the snow and then when you come home she does not cuddle on the couch because she goes out to shovel the walk and that is NOT HOW THINGS WORK so you have to bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and jump up on the door to tell her to come back inside and then when she tries to come back inside she can't come back inside because your jumping "locked the door" which is peoples for your mama has to sit outside in the snow for hours so you have to keep barking at her until a man in a truck comes and drills holes in the door and your mama has to give him all her moneys and then when she is finally back inside she does not even want any kisses

i think the poet christina rossetti said that

today

today it is my birthdays

i am three

you will know it is my birthdays today because you will get more kisses and i love yous than usual and maybe some cookies too

on my birthdays everyone in the world loves everyone else as much as my mama and my papa love me

 

snow

snow is when all the smells in the world are buried under the white and the cold



to find them you have to be very clever and dig little holes and put your nose in the holes and sometimes your whole head and kind of snorfle around to see where those smells are hiding



peoples are not so good at snorflings because their noses are too far away from the ground so they have to do shovelings instead and that is not nearly as satisfying

snow makes everything strange for example sometimes it can be very difficult to know where to poop

it makes my mama and my papa a little sad* so i have to work extra hard to make sure everything is okay

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*Note from Daisy's mama: Yesterday, my mother-in-law passed away following a sudden and unexpected illness. Daisy Mae, always sensitive to our feelings, has been especially attentive, staying close and licking up lots of tears. I don't know how we'd do this without her.

my mama

my mama is not feeling too good today

she wouldn't get up or dressed or go on walks or anything, she just ate about nine breakfasts and they were all soup

and then she had to take a bath

i sat on the bathmat the whole time so she wouldn't be scareded

we were very brave

a special skill

a special skill that i have is being able to do many important things at the same time

it is called puppytasking because peoples cannot do it

i know this because in the evening my mama says no jumping around now daisy we are watching a movie or my papa says please chew on your toy daisy and stop bothering me

as if all of these things could not happen simultaneously

now my mama and me we have a new game called jogging

jogging is a kind of walks in which there is no sniffing no pooping no squirrel-stalking no peeing and no playing with sticks

it is very good for peoples because it is very simple

but it is not so much fun

time

time is peoples for something i do not understand

like sometimes i want to go on my walks and my papa says daisy mae give me some time

and i do not have any

my mama says that is because puppies live in a binary world of happening and not-happening but that peoples have all this stuff in between which is time

time is hard to find because it has no smells but i think it lives in the computer and the teevees

there is a mice

there is a mice that lives in the kitchen

it is in a lot of troubles because it has been eating the people food and that is very very bad

like last week it nibbled a pizza that my papa had just taken out of the oven and one time i got in terrible trouble just for sniffing my mama's pizza

i asked my mama what our strategerie was about the mice and she said diplomacy is always the right approach and i said what does that mean and she said it means the next time i see the mice i am going to give it a stern talking-to and i said a talking-to about what and she said ABOUT ITS IMMINENT DEATH

and that is why you never go near my mama's pizza