Life with cats, and other things…
0717/25th December 2022 For the past few days I have been listening to choir music. Not Christmas music, "Sacred Choir Music" that I found at random on YouTube. The sound is one I have always found soothing. It touches me deep inside. Russian choirs especially. What is it in this sound that is so moving? … Continue reading Nuts
After nearly 3 years, we are still on constant lookout for wildlife and last night we received a new visitor. Two nights before a young doe had come up the hill toward the house. Grant called me to say it was there again,down below, so as always I went to look. It's quite a distance, … Continue reading Honoured
Nature provided my topic for today, right on schedule, as in the past two years. On 28th May, 2019, our first Spring in my new home, we were surprised one afternoon to see a white-tailed doe lying on her side, in the field below the house. Unwell that day, I had been lying down and … Continue reading Privileged
Remember those tulips that came up in my flower bed? They are so starved for food, they fight each other: Fur flies every day. Birds use it for their nests. Tulips are poisonous to cats, but apparently not to deer. How could I ever be mad at a face like this? Not only hungry, but … Continue reading Now you see them…
Books about animals are almost inevitably sad and it came to a point where I just had to stop reading them. "Providence of a Sparrow" by Chris Chester, for example. A bird story that reduced me to a quivering wreck. It was so terribly poignant and about a sparrow. The little bird in this picture … Continue reading Not “just a sparrow”
Taken earlier, in the Spring Tuesday wasn't the best. That was steroid epidural day, the onset of the MEGA headache. But it wasn't just that. When we got home, we noticed a little dove sitting in the grass just outside the living room. Sitting, not moving. We had it happen once before and that one … Continue reading Little lives count
Social distancing being observed It looked as though even the birds were observing the rules today, on their chow line. At least they got the message from our Governor, Mr Cuomo, even if him in the White House didn't. It's so embarrassing having him for a president. Fortunately, I have entertainment to distract me... Grant … Continue reading Obeying the rules…or not…
As easily as pushing buttons on my keyboard, here we are, back in the 21st Century. Whoopee! Do I have to stay here? I liked 1985 better. The past 2 weeks in particular have seemed obnoxious. For all sorts of reasons, but then came relief in the form of wildlife which has been such fun, … Continue reading Animal antics