I have had the most lazy self satisfying weekend for ages and it feels good, I can tell you. to be honest I have done nothing but wallow and spend quiet time doing nothing, but sometimes you need 'nothing days' don't you? I refuse to feel guilty about days like this as I truly believe times like this are good for the soul. As I get older I find that I need to do this from time to time to re-cooperate my brain. Dear oh dear, the perils of ageing! all through my life I have been an 'all or nothing' sort of person. Either the life and sole of the party, dancing long after everyone else has collapse in a heap, or quietly reading in a room far away from anyone else. My father is like this, and apparently so was my paternal grandfather. Must be hereditary I suppose? What contrary people we must be?
Anyway, while sunning myself I have had a good look at my garden and, what a surprise, it needs sorting. Luckily hubby and I did loads of work in the autumn.....you know the stuff.....painting fences, doing a patio area, potting tubs and all that. Some of the last pictures of Jonesy were taken while we were putting up trellis and laying paving slabs, so that area will hold a special place for me as he sat and watched every day we worked. He was already showing signs of the disease, with the enlarged stomach by then, and had got lethargic, staying close to us. It makes me smile to think of those days as it was all rather peaceful, except when my father got stuck holding a piece of wood in a mighty awkward position, while the sun lounge wall appeared to collapse, as he was trying to fix it. The air was rather blue at that point.
I have also had a little peruse at the family history again. I have been doing it for a few years now and from time to time I have a mad moment and get addicted again, spending hours looking for ancestral information. Yesterday was one such day! Some of the new sites mention DNA and hereditary traits. I got to wondering if my cats have hereditary traits? Well of course they do, as I well know, from having a mother cat and her male off spring. There were remarkable similarities between them, not least the colour of their fur. Peanut is simply a very much smaller version of Jonesy, in character, as well as looks. Oh yes indeed, Jonesy was a BIG character!!
Well I should make the most of the beautiful weather while I am not cooped up indoors at work..........so enjoy your Sunday everyone, as I shall carry on enjoying mine.
PS. Even the cats are having a Sunday afternoon snooze!
Snap.....!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly how my day has been...Have'nt washed, shaved, or my hair either....But, then, l look go any time of the day...! HeHe! :). (I Wish). Went to Morrisons at 10, and that was that.
About a month ago...A black/white kitten/cat, started to pop round, and say hello. Don't know it's name, or who it belongs to, or where it's from. It's just coming out of it's kitten stage, as it likes to play and mess around. I say 'it', as l have'nt look at the rear end....Bit rude me thinks..!
It sits outside on the table on the patio, first thing, about seven, where it gets a saucer of milk. Then, off it go's.
Friday morning l looked out the window, and it'as poking at summat....
I unlocked the door, went out, and it had one of my frogs from the pond. Dead. 3inches in length,
lovely skin etc. But, the cat had killed it.
I had George, for 14yrs. He never once bothered the fish, frogs, toads newts etc. Not once...
The only thing he would do, is pick one up, carry it down to the patio, by the leg, poke it a bit, to make it jump, and that was that. I would then take it back to the pond...
So, me and this new visitor, have had a little chat, a heart to heart, l've told him if he does it again..............! :.). Amen!