#I wasnt like super shocked that gators were there

[iucemon]

just remembered I had a weird dream about like. house-sitting for someone except their backyard was full of huge wild alligators and their dogs (smedium) so desperately wanted to frolic outside. So I had to keep going out and getting them (very scared but also pissed off)

[kaertrolde]

when i was younger like at least 10 years ago, we would go on this camping trip for a “friends and family reunion” up in the mountains at a friends place and they had a huge barn and a big guest house and all the area to run around and i have a lot of fond memories there but i just saw a picture that reminded me of a poodle that this older lady had, his name was marble, and he was mean to like all the kids but would always come over to me, and i remember once he jumped up into my arms and his owner was like shocked but i felt so special bc he hated kids. also sometimes we would go like with ‘grandpa’ larry (he wasnt my grandpa but yeah) to feed the cows and stuff like on the gator and i always remember having so much fun. in the barn they have a big wall of ‘gone but not forgotten’ and im sure since then a lot more have been added to that list and that makes me super sad and i know even if we did go again it wouldnt be the same as before, although i would like to go again kind of as a closure. the same people owned a different property which we would go for another gathering called ‘the branding’ which was as the name suggests a bunch of the guys would go out on horses and heard in the cows and brand all the new calves. that gathering wasnt as fun bc there normally wasnt a lot of kids my age but the last few we brought our little dog and i remember going on long walks with her. the fun part of going there was they had so much property to explore and my parents trusted me to go hiking on my own and we would find arrow heads and all the holes in the rocks and even some cave paintings. i honestly miss my childhood, those were the best years for me my parents were happy and we traveled a lot. but when i entered highschool a lot of those things stopped. we had a group that would all go camping at the same time and i would go and typically my parents would bring one of my cousins and then their friends had two daughters about our ages so we had friends and there was so many people and dogs and we would go to the same tree every year and take a picture and i went just with my dad maybe two years ago and the tree was dead.