Mudskipper Post:
Something has happened to our yard. I haven’t decided if I like it or not. It was all MelT’s idea, I would never have agreed to it if she’d asked me. Of course, she didn’t. She never wants my opinion. The thing that happened is that my well-loved wading pool has been replaced by a huge hole in the ground that swallows unwary capybaras! I’ll tell you all about it.
It started out innocently enough, although a bunch of people came over and that is never good. Anyway, they made this cute little wooden enclosure. I assumed it was for a guinea pig. I miss WBB1 so that would have been nice.
As if having all of those people around wasn’t bad enough, this huge monster of a machine came over and started digging inside the new guinea pig enclosure. I don’t think guinea pigs are subterranean, WBB1 never was, so I couldn’t figure this out. Basically, I just wanted them to go away, and to go away fast.
That is not what happened.
One day when it was just me and MelT, we went out to see what was going on. By now that horrible machine had piled up so much dirt that you couldn’t see over it. It’s like they were hiding something, which I think they were.
This is what I saw, minus the people. I wouldn’t go out there when people were around, besides, it was daylight, time for sleeping. Anyway they built a huge hole. It was much too deep for a guinea pig. It seemed to me that too deep for a guinea pig might be deep enough for a capybara! Clearly, I am not going in that thing!
Some huge trucks came one day. I have never heard anything so loud! I thought it was going to break my little ears! But this is what they were doing, spraying some weird stuff onto the sides of the hole. And the bottom, but not the top. The weird stuff dried so fast it didn’t even drip!
By this time, the hole was starting to look like a cement pond. What use could that be?
I have never seen anything like it!
Maybe I should try to put my toes in, no point rushing things
That went okay. The pond isn’t full of some poisonous substance. It seems to be water. Invisible water. Who knew that could happen?
Taking the plunge
That didn’t turn out so great, did it! The new pond/pool tried to eat me! Turns out that is not water, it is the saliva of a ravenous beast. There’s some invisible monster lurking in that invisible water.
I’m not a particularly brave capybara, but at MelT’s insistence I tried again. This time the pool hardly had any water in it. That’s when I discovered that there are steps leading down to the bottom. The best thing is, the steps also lead OUT of the pool. That is good to know.
That day I went in and out of the pool a whole bunch of times. More than three. The next day I went in once. Now I don’t think it’s such a good idea. MelT says I have to do it or she is going to replace me with a “better” capybara. I don’t think she means it, right? She’s bluffing.
Sorry it has taken me so long to write this post. I need MelT’s help and she has been claiming she is otoo busy. Also that it is too depressing that I won’t go in. I hate to see her sad like that, but there’s nothing I can do about it. Anyway, I will try to get my next post out in a timely manner. I have a lot of stuff to share right now. My life has been so exciting!
