25 December 2010
In the morning I’ve looked through the window…
And once more went to wash my face with cold water…
Then I started to write a List:
Matches, salt, flour, sugar, tea, coffee, candles, kerosene, tinned meat, butter, soap, groats, washing powder…
Then I looked out of the other window…
Tobacco, cognac, rum, champagne – surely it’s a folly – sheer bubbles, but it’s a New Year celebration…
Note-book, chocolates, aspirin, biscuits, signal flags,
Ring-buoy – just for me – it will be sufficient – Goldens won’t drown, they’ll always have an opportunity
to have a rest on the roof, dog food...dog food...dog food...
“Tanya! Only the most necessary! And minimum! We have no money!” – repeated my inner voice.
“There’s plenty of books in the house, we still have firewood, an ax, a saw and as well,
besides I can warm myself with the help of dogs, there’s a plenty of dog’s hair in the house,
and knitting needles can be made of twigs…” – psychotherapy was in full swing.
…Skis, oars (barrel of gun-powder for the entourage… but I have nothing to shoot with),
lemons (scurvy is a horrible disease), suet (very unfeminine, but I have no choice),
besides it’s important to load Morse alphabet before the snow haven’t torn off the wires…
Besides cream for face and hands so that I would look like a woman when high-flood subsides…
It seems to me that’s all!
“… anyway I’ll manage to get to the city on skis…”
Now I must dig out the gates, ask my neighbor for sledges, to the nearest shop and for winter-camp!
Friends, we’ll be with you until we have electricity! Afterwards I’ll write a diary…
P.S.
It appeared that most of all we need barrels with rum.
I have seven grown-up Goldens and Sasha is growing up – she has to study.
Ira Sokolova has four Goldens.
And Zhuzha is already quite a Golden. So we have fifteen of them!
And all of them are perpetually searching for something in the snow.
What do you think – can a barrel be unisex?
It seems to me that Casper looks rather impressive
And to Yolk it becomes!
