It's a wonder she kept any food down at all. We changed her diet to some special kidney disease formula that she and her sister hate, but they eat it ...nd they don't throw it up. Every few days we give them some "ice cream" as the vet staff call the common commercial products. The cats love that stuff, which I guess is why they call it "ice cream."Anyway, we forgot to feed them last night, if you can believe that, something I didn't realize until this morning when I got up to give them their. " It is a combination of objectives. The stonecutter is making a kiln. This will produce one of the ingredients to make glass. We need silica sand and either potash or ashes. We need lots of wood for construction and fuel then a place to make the glass." For lenses?" Yes but I need it for our laboratory. We need to produce some chemicals and glass is good for most of them." I can see images of some odd devices that are clear and hard." That is the glass." I pictured various pieces of glassware. I could do nothing of course, but stay out of their way. In any case, the school-holidays were coming up, and I had definite plans, which were to keep me out of the house as much as possible. And then they dropped their bomb-shell. They said that they needed a break, and had booked themselves a holiday. For a moment, I got all excited and wondered where we were off to. And then they told me. I was going to be shipped off to Grandmas. Id never been particularly close with my Gran, but that wasnt. I lay there thinking about when Chris and I first met. My first experience of sex with another man some had been some 28 years earlier and was, well let’s say less that totally satisfying. I had crossed the threshold, and that part was good. But, it happened and it was over and I never saw Micheal again. I went back to my straight life, but had a lot of thoughts about what had happened that night and if I would ever try it again. Time passed and the thoughts began to be more frequent, even.