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BACHING IT

Franklin and I are keeping bachelor hall this weekend.

Well, I guess Franklin is just missing one dad. Half an orphan. A grass widow?

John is off to a conference in LA where he will be a speaker today; Friday through Monday.

We are doing OK and so is he. We manage to pull at least two separations a year. I will get to go somewhere later in the summer. Someplace cool. I am still working on when, where, and how.

Franklin gets to looking around and 'waiting'. But then he snaps out of it and makes his demands on me that he would share with John. Temporarily, I am the morning as well as the evening walker, the foot drier after the morning walk which is always wet (due) and I am even the dog brusher. He looked so mangy yesterday that I bent to the brushing task.

It is good. We are bonding at a new level. I am not sure what it is but it is there.

Tomorrow it will be all celebrations and homecomings. Nice. A little deprivation and then some celebration at the end of it.