This is what I saw
Walked into town this morning and saw this on the path. It’s not my photo, it’s the robot’s, but it’s startlingly close to my experience. Fortunately, there’s a local WhatsApp group I could report it to – there was a road on one side and a field of wheat on the other.
He turned and disappeared into the wheat as I came close. I think it was a he. I don’t have the expertise to tell teats from testicles at a distance.
Read this on the web today: “In America in 1812 a young girl called Mary Sawyer nursed a lamb back to health when everyone else had given up on it. The lamb consequently followed her to school every day.
In 1830 Sarah Josepha Hale wrote a poem about the incident which was entitled Mary had a Little Lamb and thus became a popular nursery rhyme.”
I asked the robot if this is true. It said the two facts are true, but the connection between them is unproven. Mary Sawyer didn’t claim to be that Mary until she was a very old lady.
Day one of the heat wave. I’ve gone into defensive Southern mode and refuse to move out of the shade until it’s over.
June 22, 2026 — 5:42 pm
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