Life with cats, and other things…
17th May 2024 . Our neighbour's cherry trees are in bloom and today I persuaded my camera to take a photograph, which yesterday it was reluctant to. . But by the time we got to the end of the road, it returned to sulking. It could be said that I am intolerant of devices which … Continue reading Out of focus
0725/13th October 2023 This morning's sunrise itself was very ordinary, but then a little ground mist drifted in, forcing me to abandon cat breakfasts. Oh, it's alright. Grant manages quite well without my input. . Sometimes I think it's better when only one of us provides meal service. When two of us are involved they … Continue reading Missing!
1610/10th June 2023 Just as I launched yesterday's post, I was assaulted by a vicious headache which required me to lie prone with a bag of frozen peas on the aching noggin. In consequence, the rest of the afternoon went sideways. No great loss. Grant took over the afternoon "rounds". By suppertime, the peas having … Continue reading Understanding
0636/9th May 2023 0635/8th May 2023 . Raising my blind this morning, I perceived a red-looking Sun lifting into the dawn sky. In the past a red Sun indicated smoke from wildfires. I saw this in the summers of 2017-18, in Washington State and it happened here too, I think in 2021 when we got … Continue reading Where am I ?
This is going to be a very short, strange post. For starters, my pictures have vanished again. Well, not totally. They are there, somewhere, but I had to re-activate One Drive which I have been notified by...Microsoft? is almost full. (Already?) Of course, for a monthly fee I can increase the space. It's not a … Continue reading Rescues
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
If I went back outside and took this same picture on my phone, I would be able to identify it, using Plantnet.com, except that there are apparently "Technical Difficulties". Ah yes, technical difficulties. When I was a child we were not as bothered by those, as so many things back then were done manually. Like … Continue reading This modern world