Actually it's not raining at all... it's quite sunny and lovely. But in the house the place has gone to the cats and dogs. We have three dogs and three cats for those of you who don't know. They often drive me bananas.
We have an old old cat that has reached his age of majority now being 12 years of age. He was so cute when we first got him... the blackest cat I've ever seen. But as time went by he started getting all the signs of aging. The grey hairs were the first signs that he was aging. After that he started ever so slowly to slow down each year, and then finally he started to gain weight. He is now huge. Like fat. Like Garfield looks svelt compared to him. We thought we should put him on diet but this has not worked because he is the best mouser in the whole world. I keep expecting him to keel over with a heart attack. However, last night when I went outside for my evening walk, there was Midnite in all friskiness, playing with the kitten. He was jumping up and catching moths and trying to do little flips. I think he even tried to climb a tree at one point however, his ass was so big that he just couldn't get it up over 3 or 4 inches. He is the fattest thing in the world. Yesterday I was sitting in the living room on the couch and we have a little cushion set up under the end table for the cats to snooze on. Midnite has been spending the summer outside snoozing on an old fleece on the deck under the work table, but recently he has begun to come into the house for his daytime snoozes as the temperatures begin to dip. He was lying in there all day, next to the couch. At one point Daughter #1 came into the living room to chat and I guess we disturbed his sleep, so he came out to see what was going on. After four steps off the pillow he just couldn't go any further. He had to lie down again since the poor bugger was exhausted from all that exertion. As he lay down his fat oozed out over the floor away from his body. It was disgusting. Then he looked up at me and yawned. That was it. The extent of his exercise. And back he went under the table. Four steps out and four steps back to his pillow and there he stayed until it was time to go out last night. And we had to turf him then. When a yawn is good exercise then you know that you have the laziest cat on the face of the earth.
Meanwhile as I sit here writing this morning the wee pooch has decided that chewing on the end of my poncho is awesome. And I'm wearing it!
I love animals. They certainly have their very own little personalities.
Recently the whore went missing. She has been missing since last week. We had an appointment for her to be spayed on Thursday the 21st... but Friday the 16th, she scooted out between Teapot's legs as he opened the door and disappeared into the dark. We went looking for her but she disappeared in no time flat. She hasn't been seen since. I hope she doesn't come back... (I know that's mean but the coyotes need to eat too... but with my luck, she'll come back pregnant no doubt. Argh! I hate female cats.
The two big dogs are not happy with us these days either. We have decided that we cannot allow them to go out of the house unless they are on a leash anymore, because they have taken to wandering away from our property. They started to run around just up and down the in front of our house and soon it was down to the neighbour's driveway, and then it was to the end of the road, and then they were gone for several hours, and I would spend my time out on the deck calling and calling and calling.... further and further afield they would go. We have decided that they need a dog run, and the only place to make a fenced dog run is where the sheep paddock was. It is about twenty feet from the house, and will have to be seeded with grass seed after all the sheep poo has been scraped out, and the fence will have to be moved on one end slightly... thus they won't be able to run around the neighbourhood any more... it's all a bit of a headache really. While we are waiting for the sheep to go so we can move the fence, the two dogs have to be tied on on leashes. I hate having to go out first thing in the morning with my nighty on and put them on leashes and Bailey has the obedience of a crocodile and she runs when I call her to put on the leash. I'm thinking that the air space around our property has been looking a little blue lately.... I definitely need to stop the trucker language first thing in the morning.
Along with all that the sheep are finally going. I may have mentioned that the sheep have been sold. But the fellow who bought them didn't have his fencing in place and couldn't take them right away... so Teapot called him yesterday to see how the fencing was going and he's finished all except for a paddock for the ram. So the sheep and llama are going hopefully this weekend, we just have to get the trailer. Honeydew the llama is too tall for our sheep trailer. So we have to borrow a horse trailer from friends. We are going to have to keep the ram for now, until the fencing is done... I can't wait till we are only having to care for just alpacas.
Last but not least... on the 1st of October.... there will be two rabbits coming to live here. They are Angora crosses. Lovely long spinnable fibre. Silver grey and charcoal grey... I'm looking forward to trying angora. I'm not sure what will be involved in maintaining them I have to do some research on this but since they are crosses I'm hoping they won't be as difficult as true angoras. We'll see about that though.
So that's my animal news for now. Meanwhile I'm working on a whole bunch of things... two woven shawls and a scarf and hopefully two more scarves as I go on. That's what I'm doing today. Weaving.
I'll try to post some pics here tomorrow.... hope to see you then.
I'm off to listen to CBC, weave, and sit in that beautiful sunshine and I might even get some exercise from time to time... like the cat, all I have to do is yawn.... I can do that... : )
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