Random Notes

[pshaw_raven]

- "The Cat's Inheritance" is mostly finished! There are two pages left that I am working on now, but they're more of a coda. A few pages are going to be corrected (there's a mistake in them but I'm not going to mention what it is) and the website is still having weirdness with the way links and stuff display but I'm working on it. It's just been a long time since I did any of my own website work, and I've never used WordPress, so please bear with me.

- There isn't a single squirrel or bird in the front yard right now, and I suspect there's a stripey-butted kitty hanging around under the deck. In other words, I think my neighbor let her cat out and she immediately came over here to check out the other part of her territory. I wish she'd let me pet her but she's pretty shy of strange humans. (The cat, not the neighbor.)

- Earlier this week I got a seed tray started, as well as a container of cat grass. I put them in the server room where it's warm, and it's safe since we keep the door shut to keep the cats out. I have some more plants I'd like to start but I need some decent soil. If things don't get too bad out there I may include a Home Depot stop next time I go out and grab some bags of potting soil. I would like to get catnip started, and some flowers and things to make pretties.

- I am actually getting pretty anxious about the pandemic situation, but then I am also used to dealing with massive anxiety. So finding productive ways to distract myself is part of my standard operating procedure. The pranayama class I signed up for is already useful - I haven't even tried the asanas yet and just watching the teacher go through each one was relaxing in itself. He's taking us through a couple of "restorative yoga" postures so that we can create feelings of deep relaxation. The poses call for sandbags, which I don't have, but I'm probably going to wrap a pair of heavy books in towels and just use that until I can make some proper sandbags. I may just buy empty sandbags online and fill them myself. It's not like we don't have any sand here.

- Even though I haven't seen hummingbirds, I put the feeders out yesterday. Fox thinks he heard them before we had to shut the windows. We enjoyed our three or four days of spring, but summer is here now. Anyway, one of the feeders leaked out overnight, so I need to refill it - possibly replace it if it won't hold a seal. They're about six years old now. But hopefully I just didn't assemble the base properly.

Comments

[cdayzee]

I wish she'd let me pet her but she's pretty shy of strange humans. (The cat, not the neighbor.)
LOL!! I got a good chuckle! Thank you for this :)

I have a desire to pet cats I see also. There's a group of them that stay in the park where I walk [have I mentioned this before??]. They are so small & cute. Usually, cats like that tend to be skittish but 2 let me pet them at different times. Made my day.

[pshaw_raven]

There's a feral tom here who will let me get sort of close, but then he runs away. It's like he wants to come up to me, but is still too scared to really do it. Once our local trap-neuter-release program is back running I may contact them for a trap, since he is an unaltered male.

[cdayzee]

Speaking of feral cats - I don't know if you recall me posting about a large black cat on my property last year that I thought might be a 'big cat' but now there's a large white one! [haven't seen the black one] I know Maine coons are large but aren't they usually grayish? I don't know enough about animal breeds. I've never seen domestic cats this big & fluffy. It's the oddest thing [for me].

[expandranon]

I keep forgetting to mention that pages 6 and 20 of 'The Dream Speaker' don't display properly. They're just thumbnail size.

[pshaw_raven]

Weird! Thanks for pointing that out though. I'll get that fixed.