Life with cats, and other things…
0638/28th March 2021 06400654 Yesterday, the half-cleaned windows irritated me so much, I decided to damn well clean them till they shone. And today, after that brilliant start at 0638....down pouring rain. Of course. . Depression. The kind I have is 50% chemical imbalance. To be honest, I'm not sure how out of balance my … Continue reading Keeping control
Returned and undelivered mail It's not just me. There's been a depression over the area for the past four days now Today it resulted in a very brief thunderstorm, as if testing a system that has been unused for a few months. It was successful enough to send cats under beds. Then the sun reappeared … Continue reading USPS
"Check up time? Really?" It's that time of year. Cat check,-up time. Moan. Lucy got a mostly good report except for two things. She has one eye and the doc. seemed just a bit concerned that it's not quite right. Lucy declined the suggestion of complicated investigations. We are to keep an eye on it. … Continue reading Ticked off
0700/19th March 2021 or 1200 according to my confused camera Throughout the night, it howled and moaned and roared like a great lumbering beast in its death throws. It rattled the windows, whistling through all available cracks, clattering the porch furniture and creating a veritable symphony among the wind chimes. Suddenly, mid-morning it stopped dead, … Continue reading Wind
0710/17th March 2021 Everyone's got a pet peeve. Maybe several, in fact. For me, hands down, it's BANKS. Banks are a source of annoyance and anxiety. Always have been, always will be, for me. They are designed not to care for your money, but to remove it from you. In whatever devious method they can … Continue reading Banks!
0722/15th March, 2021 Having pulled myself out of the rabbit hole I was about to plunge into on Saturday, I seem to have turned around, catching my foot on the rim and plunged straight back in. It's been a while since I explored the depths of my particular rabbit hole and I don't like it … Continue reading Riding it out
1802/13th March 2021 Yesterday's sloth, or whatever you want to call it could be attributed to any or all of a number of things: Covid vaccine, change of meds, over extending the mobile bike routine or even just 15 minutes of patio sweeping. Whatever it was, I could not haul my butt out of bed … Continue reading Focus
If there's a hint of a wondrous sunrise I can, with varying enthusiasm, haul my ass out of my warm bed. When it is dark and cold and I've been up a number of times through the night, I have no enthusiasm for rising. At all. But I live with cats. They rule my existence. … Continue reading Stinker
Toby is not daunted by snow. He dons "M"'s old coat and off he goes. Dear old "M". He was such a character. He was the manager of my foster care. Is there a point in posting pictures of pets long gone? Is there a point to memorials, like this bunny which contains the ashes … Continue reading Triggers
12th January 2021 Bleak, a good way to describe the way I felt yesterday. As hard as the sun struggled to brighten the day... ...grey cloud came to swallow it up... ...and my mood sank with it... ...not quite to despair, but certainly to tears and gloom. Returning to bed was an option, to wrap … Continue reading Bleak
