As if that’s unusual. But we have gotten somebody to fix Closed Circle, and bring it up to speed with some major Word Press goings-on.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch—I’ve got another sinus infection and am taking heavy antibiotics. You know you’re sick when antibiotics make you feel better. Finity is driving me bonkers. She’s reached adolescence. And is wild as a March hare, too skittish to allow outside. I’m going to find the leash and harness and see if we can make that work.
Sunday is our anniversary, and the garden is obliging with many blooms.
Happy anniversary! Enjoy the garden, and best wishes for feeling better.
Happy anniversary!
Your garden is looking lovely, the wisteria, the peonies, the little bridge in the front garden and the waterfall in the back garden.
It looks like getting rid of the giant sycamores on the corner has brought in more light. Do you find the change beneficial, or is the extra traffic noise and view encroaching too much now?
How are the koi doing?
And good luck with keeping Finity on a leash – are Sei and Shu allowed outside now?
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Lovely flowers; the peony is particularly magnificent, and if they are like the ones I knew from the old homestead, they have a spicy scent too. Hope they don’t finish blooming before you are well enough to enjoy all the flowers.
Get Finity used to the harness while she’s young; it will save you much grief later. I point in the general direction of Shu’s misbehavior on your eclipse trip, and experience from our previous cats.
Best wishes to the fishes, and yourselves too. Happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Beatiful pictures, makes me feel like I’ve been there.
P.S.
I’m always up for weirdness.
The garden looks fab. Very happy anniversary to you both. I’m currently working to find a copy of “Pot of Dreams”, an early (1995) short story by both of you! Was this your first co-authored work?
Felicitations on your Anniversary to the two of you! The garden is fantastic! My tulips are in their final stages here and most of the daffs are gone but I have some early (German?) irises blooming so the beauty of my spring garden, like yours, continues apace. Your water garden is looking stunning! Amazing how several years of growth around an installation can bring it to an even more superior level.
Seems a happy place, apart from your sinus issues. We’ve planted far more than our garden will be able to hold.
Happy Anniversary! I think it’s wonderful that even the garden felicitates your union! In the meantime, be well – Hugs, K+C
Happy Anniversary! Oh, I wish I had that kind of talent and space for a garden. This reminds me to get an aloe vera. (Oddly, I know.)
The kitten is steadfastly unnamed, which I think is my problem, not his. He’s making progress in some things, not others, still peeing on the bed when I’m asleep or away. Now have a large vinyl tablecloth and large bed incontinence pads on top to combat this, but really, really want him trained out of it. Litterbox is otherwise good. He hasn’t quite learned to climb up and down, needs play and exercise, but is OK. Still nearly skin and bones, yet I think he’s growing even so. Eating constantly. Due for a checkup to ease my mind, not required by the vet.
Vacuumed this morning, but need more cleanup to be truly clean. — Neighbors were up to 3:30am to 4:00am last night, so I was too, involuntarily. Not too happy about it and very tired today.
CJ and Jane: Happy anniversary!
BCS: Nemo?
ReadyGuy and I wish you sincerest felicitations on your anniversary. We’re trying to decide whether we go out to celebrate our 40th anniversary next week. I’m still of the opinion that we should stay home but I really don’t want to cook or bake. Color me lazy in warm weather.
Many happy returns of the day!
OOOooo! Wierdness! My favorite!
Changes and weirdness — sounds like the story of my life! LOL!
Many, many very happy returns of the day to you and Jane.
@BCS, IMHE, kitty names are subject to change on a whim. I had an obnoxious little white boy kitty whose official name was Gobi (like the desert), Gobotiputitati (his mother was a New Delhi Danglibeli) but at various stages of his life, he was Glockenspiel, Mr. Poopdangles, Emperor Pu An Yu, and finally, and longest, just Pu. I had a cat named Shadow who became Sister, and a cat named Jaks who inexplicably became Eedle-deedle (after the son named John who went to bed with his trousers on. . .) Of course, according to the cat in Coraline, cats don’t need names. They know who they are.
Happy anniversary to CJ and Jane.
Happiest of Anniversaries, CJ & Jane! Your pond and gardens are magnificent, and life-giving; thank you for posting these photos :). Our own anniversary was yesterday; my gift to myself this week … a re-read of Alliance Rising, for which I also thank you.
Ben, my cousin had a cat for 2 years with no name :). Her daughter’s friend moved in for 6 months, to finish high school, and a summer of working after her parents moved for work. The girl worked at a vet clinic, and one day the girls came home with a tiny red kitten; very tiny, bottle fed. My cousin had her own beautiful cat, and she said “NO. The girl stays, the cat doesn’t. And do NOT name it; if they get a name, they stay”. The girl left, the cat stayed, went through a series of “no name” names and numbers, until Chaos stuck when my cousin yelled “that cat causes chaos wherever it goes”. Became a HERO cat and lived a happy and long life as a beloved companion.
Happy Anniversary from me too.
I want to say your rhody is ‘Olive’.
@CJ — Crisis, Life can be cruel Dept., and I can’t get anyone’s attention locally. — There’s a stray kitten in the parking lot, stuck somehow, its leg appears to be caught in a crevice on a wall, above my shoulder height. The mama is/was near, ready to defend, and the kitten wants to defend him/herself. I tried holding a box under the kitten to support him/her, but that didn’t help as I raised the box, hoping to ease it. No luck calling out to people I could hear around there. I don’t have gloves, just a towel and a step stool, and I can’t get at the kitten together with a flashlight to see if I can free the back leg. How on earth the kitten got in that position, I don’t know. I only went out to investigate when I heard again, a couple of hours later, and was surprised to find him/her, and to hear mama nearby, warning me. I’m at a loss as to what else to do, and came back in. I’ve been there twice to assess it and called out, hoping people would hear,. No luck. I don’t have any good way to get to the kitten any better. I’m afraid that kitten is stuck until morning, or until someone finds him/her and helps. I really, really hate this and wish I could solve it, but I don’t see a way to. Anything I do looks too wobbly to work, and I’d have to be able to free the kitten’s leg somehow, if that’s indeed what it is, while also restraining the kitten’s front half, and not hurt him further. I have no idea if he’s truly irrevocably injured yet. So…. I feel woefully inadequate and aggravated that the people I heard, wherever they are near there, didn’t show any sign of hearing or responding.
@CJ — You may want to remove this post ,and I’d understand why. I just needed someplace to say, I’m frustrated and heartsick that I don’t have a way to do better, and can’t seem to get anyone’s attention to help either. That kitten could be there the rest of the night. I likely won’t know what happens when the kitten is found and gone. And…I am presuming that’s accident, and not someone’s purposeful action. But it seems like a very weird spot. How the kitten got there and got stuck, I can’t tell in the dark. I worry the kitten’s leg will end up forfeit. Poor kitten. I wish I could find a way to help, but I’m also afraid anything I do would only make it worse. I feel so bad for the kitten, and I’m not dealing well with this.
My two are fine, but I’m about to check the bed, since my own kitten got on the bed while I was on my second reconnoiter. Shouldn’t be more than wiping up and changing a pad if so. He doesn’t know how very lucky he is to be safe, to have a home and care.
I may go out there again. I can’t stand hearing the little kitten crying. I’d guess around 8 weeks old or more, bigger than my little guy, and all-black. I couldn’t see the mama at all, only hear her nearby warning me. I’m surprised she didn’t rush me or attack, but glad she didn’t. — Why can’t anyone else nearby hear that and come out, look, and help? Blasted situation.
Sorry, I just don’t see a good solution, and I feel terrible not to be able to solve it right away; also that no one else seems to have bothered.
@BCS, is there an Animal Rescue or Animal Ambulance in your town that you could call?
@Hanneke — I will have to look for one.
Overnight, after I went to sleep with my own little kitten, or after dawn, someone must have found the kitten who was stuck and rescued him/her. Or the mama cat got him/her loose. I woke up just now and went out, walked the line of what I’d thought was wall across that side of the Parking lot. It’s fencing, about 2 m / 6-1/2 ff high. I walked a long way in both directions from where I thought the kitten had been, diagonally across the way from my door. So I don’t know what happened, but I hope the kitten is OK now, and at least he/she is no longer stuck there, either freed and away or rescued for treatment, and so the mama cat must be also satisfied.
My two are also fine and I’ve fed them. This is the second night in three that I’ve had a nearly sleepless night until after 4:00am. I’m going to sleep as long as I can and then will look up a rescue organization plus recheck for an emergency contact via my vet.
The apt. offices offer a phone menu with choices to leave a message or for typical emergencies. Not sure there’s a human on duty at night or outside of office hours on weekends.
I hope the kitten is OK. Poor little one. At least he/she is no longer stuck, and so I can get to sleep peacefully. Glad my two are fine. Still have to convince the kitten not to pee on the bed, to use the litterbox instead, and to eat dry kibble besides only moist food. But he’s fine as far as I know. I would love to get to sleep at night on weekends. — Now back to 10 lines, sorry.
Happy Anniversary. Everyone stay safe and stay sane.
Jonathan up here in New Hampshire where it is finally getting warm.
Olive oil.