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The Sky Hadn't Decided (Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes, July 10)

Erin Wood
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Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.

Typewriter-style note on cream paper, dated 07/10/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: "This is the camp. Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. Mid-July. The gardens got ahead of the people overnight — the first zucchini's in, and nobody has a plan for it. The dogs pace themselves. It was Friday, July 10th. It was warm and close in Camp Puppy Haven, rain maybe by afternoon. We were working the day watch out of Distant-Thunder Reassurance. My partner's Cooper. The boss is Captain Fig. My name's Puppy. A man had refreshed his home weather station eleven times before lunch. The sky hadn't decided anything yet. Cooper had." Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG.

This is the camp. Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. Mid-July. The gardens got ahead of the people overnight — the first zucchini's in, and nobody has a plan for it. The dogs pace themselves.

It was Friday, July 10th. It was warm and close in Camp Puppy Haven, rain maybe by afternoon. We were working the day watch out of Distant-Thunder Reassurance. My partner's Cooper. The boss is Captain Fig. My name's Puppy.

A man had refreshed his home weather station eleven times before lunch. The sky hadn't decided anything yet. Cooper had.


Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes are published most weekday mornings.

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