Life with cats, and other things…
0700/21st September 2021 Like so many things, it's a feast or a famine. Lately I haven't been able to resist taking snaps. Professional they are not, but they please me and I hope some will please you. 21st September 2021 21st September 2021 It's sunrise season again, but this year I also captured these: We … Continue reading Seeds in the wind
0727/26th September 2021 Sunrise this morning matched my mood. The Sun fought bravely to penetrate thick layers of dark cloud and morning mist lay in the valleys. . For such an oppressive beginning, it has turned into a spectacularly bright Fall day, warm but not hot. The sort of day that should inspire. Yesterday was … Continue reading Fall funk
1706/20th September 2021 It seems like a lifetime ago that I walked down to my favourite tree, just as new leaves were beginning to sprout. Indeed it feels to me that it's been a long Summer. Which is curious because mostly as I've grown older, time seems to fly. Why is that, I wonder? This … Continue reading Outrageous!
1845/22nd September 2021 0635/23rd September Sometimes our evening sky is not all that different to the dawn. Either one is always worth watching. This morning the horizon was ringed with fast-moving dark clouds. As the sun rose, it cast an interesting light on the distant hills. Fall is officially here, though the days are still … Continue reading Gone?
Sasha, 21st September 2021 The escape artist. Yesterday afternoon I went out to take pictures of the milkweed and when I came back, Sasha was loitering by the door. She can be very determined but it was too late in the day to be chasing walk-a-bout cats. So I pushed inside saying "No, No, No!" … Continue reading Mind readers
19th September 2021 There were one or two (or ten) more conversations that took place behind my privacy curtain, that I would prefer not to have heard. I've worked hard to purge them forever from my brain. One stuck, however. "Gammy" woke, the day of my escape, with a weepy eye and a cough, which … Continue reading Avoiding Covid
1902/16th September 2021 This next part of my medical woes story will require a degree of tact. I don't wish to appear indelicate. You'll see what I mean as we go along... What with all the noise and the absence of a needed medication as well as a fairly sharp pain in my middle, I … Continue reading THE VOICE
1907/16th September 2021 When I called it quits yesterday, I was attempting to get some rest after a somewhat shocking day which ended with emergency abdominal surgery. It had not remotely featured on my daily plan, but there it was and I had come through, shedding another small piece of my anatomy. It made me … Continue reading Here a beep, there a beep
....and more of the riveting saga.... There I was, in the ER, drugged with morphine and awaiting transport for surgery, but it had been breakfast that triggered the reaction which landed me there, so a fasting period was required. In the meantime I had developed intense thirst but had to make do with ice chips. … Continue reading Surgery…
15th September 2021 Yesterday's fierce storm gave way to an interesting sky today, alternately boiling clouds to clear blue. . Another episode of Healthcare woes: An experience I share as a story of our system. Happily, it did "also pass".. . 16th September 2021 If what I have written so far about being admitted to … Continue reading “This too shall pass”
