i'm learning about how important it is for me to obey C with the little things. sometimes i get caught up in the moment and i think for just a second that it doesn't matter what he thinks about the details and so i just assume and that gets me into a heap of trouble. i hate making me angry with me! and that probably does it more than anything else. it's not that he wants me to ask questions about every little tiny thing. he expects me to know how he wants a lot of things done. it's just that sometimes i think i see a better way to do them and instead of appealing to him and finding out if he agrees, i just jump in and do them my way. at that point it no longer matters if my way was actually better, i've totally bypassed his will and followed my own and that's wrong. that makes what i've done wrong, and it means that i lose the privilage of being allowed to appeal to C when i see perhaps a way of doing things that would be quicker or easier. it also means that i don't get to benefit from his wisdom, the wisdom that often protects me from a lot of things i wouldn't have seen coming otherwise. like yesterday when i fed the dogs. C has always had me feed Ransom before I feed Teke. Ransom's bowl and dog house is further away from the house than Teke's and he'd never explained why he wanted me to feed Ransom first even though i have to pass Teke's bowl to get to Ransom's. so yesterday i decided that i would feed teke first instead of carrying the food all the way across the yard twice. no sooner than i had put the food in Teke's bowl Ransom lept on Teke and they started fighting over the food. C came out and broke them up but i'd been scratched up and scared to death before by the time he got there. if i'd have just appealed to him and talked to him about my idea he'd have had the chance to explain that that would have happened!!