Life with cats, and other things…
30th September 2025 September came and went in a flash. Time certainly speeds up as you age but right now it feels as if we are in over-speed or doing double time. Long gone are the childhood days when waiting for summer holidays seemed endless! . On Tuesday we were on the road again. In … Continue reading Liberation
1435/23rd August 2025 . With the intense heat gone, the outdoors has regained its appeal. Though I must say summer here has not been nearly as bad as elsewhere. I still get email notifications from King County in Washington and just yesterday they sent a heat advisory. . In 2000, Seattle's mild climate was largely … Continue reading Guilty
9th April 2025 . Though I could not remember taking them, I knew from downloading my camera that I'd captured a range of photos on the way home from Albany last Wednesday, yet when I wished to post them yesterday, I was surprised to find they were not nearly as numerous as I'd thought. . … Continue reading Doing – or not…
1850/3rd April 2025 . The solution for computer problems? Go for a drive. . On a fine Spring morning, fresh air can only help. Did it matter if I'd lost my email contacts and all the other information attached? . It would certainly be inconvenient, but in the absence of lorazepam, my brain seems less … Continue reading They’re back!
0740/16th March 2025 . A blustery March morning. As the outdoor temperature rises, I seem to feel more cold indoors, as was always the case, nonsensical as that may be. . Maintaining a comfortable body temperature has been a challenge to me all my adult life, always at least a degree too warm or too … Continue reading Discomfort
. For far too long now, the only dogs I've had a chance to enjoy have been in passing cars or waiting in an adjacent vehicle in a parking lot. Occasionally, I've met one at a medical office. A handful of times, we picked up escaped dogs and got them home. . Once, back in … Continue reading The influence of dogs
7th march 2025 . Today's word prompt: "Are you superstitious?" . Recent weeks have left me grasping for topics, I must admit. So, while I know that it is irrational, yes, I am superstitious and perhaps it was inevitable that I should be. . Severe asthma took control of me as a child making it … Continue reading The Universe
1st March, 20225 . In black times, I have always turned to music, more than to any other source of comfort. Music, comes from whatever God is. It is the stuff of the Universe. . It seems to me that composers have a special link to the vibrations of the Universe. Some of what passes … Continue reading Healer
. A post office run took us to the village, a journey that now requires me to raise my hands beside my head as blinders to the savagery that has taken place. Besides a whole row of inoffensive, lovely trees that were felled, debris from many others has turned that section of road into an … Continue reading The Ugly American
4th February, 2025 . The ice cap is receding. Not the ice cap/s. Our personal one. . You wouldn't know to look at it, but temperatures these past couple of days have been positively balmy, so the melt is on - for now. . The lane out to the state route is a quagmire. It's … Continue reading Adversity