Nov 10, 2007 15:51
Yesterday Sammy and I went to the beach at sunset. We played a little catch and this man came by walking his dog. He mentioned he hadn't played catch in a while. It didn't occur to me till he had passed Sammy that perhaps he had wanted to play a bit. I over threw the ball. It hit the rocks near him. He looked at it in a sweet little boy hopeful kind of way. He picked the ball up and sammy put up his glove...he made to throw at me and did. I threw the ball back and forth with him a bit with sammy's glove and then he threw a bit with sammy. I think it helped him. He seemed so happy when he left.
Then a woman came with her dog and her sweater in her arms. There was a duck inside her sweater that had been injured. She asked if we could hold it and take care of her dog because she had seen 2 other hurt ducks she wanted to help. I held the duck and sammy played with the dog. The duck moved. It kicked and jumped out of my arms but was obviously injured. I picked it up again to keep it warm. She took so long we thought it might have been a reality show but she came back grabbed the duck and left, with her dog trailing behind.
What a weird day...
Also, my camera is broken. I dropped it down two stories when we were on a field trip at the tech museum.