Mondays With Meredith Ann

I had so much fun.
The Mom put a box for me to sit on.
I could bat the ornaments.
It was a dream come true.

~ Meredith Ann ~

Mondays With Meredith Ann

Meredith Ann helps with the 2012 puzzle
 

It's that time of year.

Me, helping my Dad with his puzzle.

Mom is going to go shopping.

She asked me what kind I would like to sit on.

Last year, it was all about different parts of the world.

San Francisco and Paris.

This year, I was thinking warm beaches.

I'll let you know after the Holidays.

Til then, I'll be dreaming of what will be.

 

~ Meredith Ann ~



Mondays With Meredith Ann

I was helping Mom with the Holiday lights.

She told me, No Meredith Ann.

Don't eat the lights.

Me, eat the lights.

What ?

I was just checking them out.

After a nap, from the purr exhaustion,

I moved over to the tree stand.

I was standing.

No contest on who does it better.

After that, I took another nap.

Who wouldn't with all this going on ?

Next week, I'll let you see the tree.

Merry Purr Purr,

~ Meredith Ann ~

Tea, Dancing, and Merrry Ho Ho Ho

~ ~ ~

Many things ...

 

First, what is going on in this world ?

I read about how someone goes nuts at an elementary school.

Who does that ? Who ?

I'm mad as can be.

If there really is a God and we all go to heaven,

I have a few things to say to her.

(I grew up Catholic and am a believer in maybe.)

Can't say enough about how wrong it is to do that to anyone,

let alone sweet innocent children.

Growling over here.

 

Second, and this is not going to sound in the same tone

but I am in the Holiday Spirit.

Or, at least I was before I heard about the craziness

 going on outside of my quiet world.

I drove out the seven miles to the main road.

The beach place is out in the middle of the woods.

Again, I know. Me and woods.

Then, you make a turn and see the water.

Anyway, going shopping is a major trip.

Getting gas is a major trip too.

So, I ventured out and joined

the rest of the lovely Holiday crowds.

 

Course the mall over here is a mini version of a small mall.

Not the big big big malls that

I have sort of close to me in my other woods.

Over there I live close to Seattle.

Thus, I have double decker malls.

 

I'm writing this and looking back at words.

To this day I still have trouble with them.

Spirit doesn't look right to me.

Thus, I love spell check.

Goes well with my after coma brain.

 

Third, in theme with the Holidays.

I got my cat lover's Holiday cards made and sent out.

I've known these crazy ladies for over ten years.

Slowly the once sort of large group has gotten smaller.

Now just under the ten mark.

Still it's fun to figure out that cute cat card.

Some do family photos.

Of the cats and dogs, not those humans.

We talk to each other off and on during the year

but it's those Holiday cards that bring us such joy.

 

Four, I might get a tree this weekend.

Being down here at the beach

 with just the Purr and Fur Gang,

we haven't had the ability to

get a green smelly hanging ornaments thing.

Mr. Boatman, aka the husband,

is coming down for the weekend.

He told me he found a place to get a tree.

We, all eight of us, are thrilled.

Ok, the cats just napped when I told them.

Maddy Jean continued to ask for a bone.

Jodie Belle looked at me.

With the, What's a tree, look.

 

This will be the first Holiday for Jodie Belle.

We got her on January 1st.

Her first Holiday was spent in a puppy room

with her other cute adorable siblings.

 

Since she has found the love of chewing, again,

(we thought she had become a mature Rough Collie)

I'm a bit concerned about what we put on the bottom

layer of this green smelly hanging ornaments thing.

Time will tell if she just chews

 the tree or an ornament or two.

 

Today, she was flossing on a few shells.

She goes over to the basket on the table by the couch.

And, when no one is watching, ok a cat is probably,

she takes a few for her morning,

 afternoon, and evening flossing.

 

 

I guess that's why I got so many shells ..

 I knew they'd be needed

to entertain this lovely lady of mine.

 

And, so that's my Friday update.

Meredith Ann is napping on the chair next to me.

She helped the best she could.

 

Me, I'm in the enjoy life faze.

I am trying so hard to pretend.

Just saying.

 

So, Merrry Merrry To All.

 

Ho Ho Ho and all of that.

 

And, dance to the music in your life.

It's what I'm doing.

 

Oh, and I went to Trader Joe's for the first time.

I know, this odd little town has some cool places.

 

The tea. Oh my. Why haven't I been to this store ?

 

Ok, now go off and dance.

 

~ JC and Meredith Ann ~

Sing, Dance and Laugh

Jodie Belle, Maddy Jean and Meredith Ann

 

~ ~ ~

Having coffee in my Eeyore cup

while listening to the rain fall.

Going to be a moist one today.

 

This weekend, I'm cleaning this old house.

Our remodel starts on Monday.

Which means, that the Purr and Fur Gang

and I are moving to the beach place

for a couple of weeks.

 

Thus, I'm cleaning and packing

and thinking of what I'll need.

 

We've decided not to decorate this year.

First time that will happen.

Instead, we will try to do a bit

of lights and maybe a tree

at the beach place.

 

Change is good .. right.

 

Who knows.

 Maybe if they get done in time,

I can have my normal Holiday

but for now,

it's new and different

this year.

 

~ ~ ~

I'm going to be making a movie today.

A radio active one.

How special am I.

 

The imaging center could get me in.

I said I could wait but

they said I needed to get in right away.

 

So, I'm drinking fluids.

Coffee for now.

Tons of water after I actually become human.

In an hour or so.

 

The worst part for me is the iv.

They can never find a vein.

Takes forever and several tries.

 

So, the hour long movie

with wild reviews

will be nothing

compared to the battle

of finding that one

elusive vein.

 

~ ~ ~

After all that, if I'm not glowing,

I'm going to go to the

local nursery that's on the way home.

I'm sure I can find

something soothing to my soul

that I don't need.

~ ~ ~

Hope you have a fabulous weekend.

If anything, I've been so reminded

that life is to be enjoyed.

So go out there and do that.

Sing, dance and laugh.

I plan on it.

 

~ JC ~ 

 

 

 

 



Blue Eyed Beauty

Jodie Belle

I'm having my second cup of coffee this meowning.

Jodie is playing with a catnip toy.

She was chewing an old Harbor Freight Tools paper.

She is keeping me busy, tired, and thrilled.

Maddy Jean is getting used to her.

She waits in the yard for me to get

Jodie down the stairs.

(She hasn't managed going down them yet)

They play together and Maddy Jean

gets Jodie Belle to come back up

on the deck to come inside.

Last night they slept together.

Which means, I slept through the night.

I now can think of what I need to be doing.

That 'List' of mine.

With the Holidays over.

One child back to college.

Another one leaving in a day.

I now will start the cleaning

of the house.

We still have all our Holiday decorations up.

Been too busy to have time to take them down.

That will be my 'List' for this week.

Jodie is gated off to the kitchen/hallway areas.

She has her own bed and toys.

Maddy Jean stays with her most of the time.

Maddy does get annoyed with Jodie chewing

and jumping on her.

I remind her to be kind.

I think things will work out.

Youth and Old Age,

Do they mix ?

Til Next Time,

~ JC ~

Holidays, Birthdays and The Six Year Reminder

The Holidays are over.

Fun was had by all.

Just ask Riley.

Ashton tested out the new puppy bed.

He says it's ok.

Speaking of the puppy.

We get her in three days.

(January 1st)

Someone got some help opening their Birthday presents.

(My youngest turned 19 .. how did that happen !!!)

All in all it was a

WOW MEOW

kind of Holiday

and Birthday celebration !!!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Today marks my sixth year of going into my coma.

I remember it to a point.

Just bits and pieces.

Which is good I would think.

As I've said before, I was not supposed to make it.

Not through the night.

Not through the next day.

I did.

So there ...

Has my life since then been easy.

No, it has not.

Waking up and relearning to walk

was not for the bravest of the brave.

I did it.

Each day is a gift.

Each moment so precious.

I do sometimes wonder though,

on days like today,

why.

So, I'll continue on this journey.

And, hope someone doesn't figure out

that they made a mistake

six years ago.

Til they do,

I'll be enjoying every moment.

~ ~ ~

JC

Mondays With Meredith Ann

A Merry December To All

(with fur that is)

It's cold

COLD

Icy on the deck

Which means I don't get to go outside

So, I am helping the Mom

with Holidays things.

I look better than that tree thing

in the center of the table,

don't I !!!

I wish all of you a

Merry

Ho Ho Ho

(hum bug that is)

and hope you find some

good tissue paper

to play in.

(There is some next to me.

I have plans for it !!!)

Til next week,

This is,

~ MEREDITH ANN ~

Riley Helps

It's the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

That means the house is a mess.

Lights have been brought down.

Strings of them on the floor.

Which ones work.

Can this one be fixed ?

Boxes of old decorations

have made it down the stairs.

A wreath on the door.

A cinnamon pine cone near the fire.

Cards sitting on the shelf.

Too rainy to put lights up.

Maybe next weekend.

Haven't found the stockings yet.

More boxes in the storage area.

Must be in one of those.

Nutcrackers are waiting to march.

And, the rain it keep on coming.

Wind blowing it at the windows.

Cats napping on or near the heater vents.

No walks outside that's for sure.

~ JC ~