Just Call Me Sandy

We are at the beach.
Mom hasn't taken photos of us in furever.
Thus, she found this one and posted it.
Our beach looks a bit like this
only we are all inside
looking out.

Something about the Eagles and Seagulls
coming to get us
and that Mom doesn't let us
out anyway.

The sun came out for a while.
That was a thrill for us and Mom.
The dogs went out and played.
Came back in and they weren't wet.
That hasn't happened in a while.

Not much going on except to get here
we were in our cages
for what seemed like furever.

Mom said something about 
the kitchen being a total mess
due to the remodel next week.
Boxes with dishes everywhere.

We did wonder what happened
to our nap stations.

So, that's the latest.

~ Mom and The Purr and Fur Gang ~

No Photos Just Rain

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It's a quiet morning.

No street noise.

Just the birds and cats

making the woods

sound like home.

I've been gone for a few days.

To the beach place.

I call it that but it's not the Ocean.

It's on an inlet.

Waves only roll in

if the wind is visiting.

Which it does a lot

over at that place.

It is nice though

in the Summer.

When it's a hot day

and no one came to

visit our small inlet.

Not in the Winter though.

Just a drippy windy place.

I'm glad to be back

in my mossy wet woods.

My cats are running

up and down the stairs

and around the kitchen

into the living room

and back up the stairs.

I guess it's what you

do on a messy wet Winter day

if you are a cat who lives

in the woods but

inside with your Mom.

Me,

I'm fine.

Figuring out what

I want to do

with the rest

of my old lady life.

That kind of stuff.

Also, the photo shop

has decided to laugh at me.

The main puter died.

Literally, went up in smoke.

Mr. Boatman has replaced

it with a new one.

Being a puter nerd,

he is replacing each part

just the way he wants.

Anyway, what I mean

is that I lost a lot of

the things I liked.

And, I mean a lot.

So, no photos.

No saved things.

Just rain

and birds that are wet

to look at.

And, a very wet Collie

just went up the stairs

and I know where she

is going.

My bed.

I need some of that yellow

stuff to show up.

Who doesn't though.

Then, we will all complain

that it's too hot.

Got to go

cats, dogs

It never stops over here.

Just the way I like it.

~ JC ~

Tuesdays Are Noisy

Ashton with one of his mice

~ ~ ~

Tuesday is always a noisy one.

Starts with those trucks that roam the streets.

Some are louder than others.

It was that group today.

 

Ashton and Riley started out the day with a mew fest.

In the hall, talking away.

About what, I'm not sure.

Ashton is still in the hall.

He sang to me while bringing me a mouse.

It's in the hall with Jodie Belle's toy.

When I told him how nice it was that he brought

it to me, he blinked his eyes.

Cutest cat ever.

No, really. He is.

Just wish I could get photos of him.

He is the elusive grey striped boy.

 

Meredith Ann is napping near me.

She's been a bit sad lately.

I think because the weather is moister.

She hasn't been able to go outside in a while.

Thus, I find her in the living room.

Sitting on the rug, looking at bird tv.

Other times, she's napping in the hall.

No rug. Just wood floors.

Maybe she's getting more comfortable

with this new house of hers.

She has been here almost three years now.

 

Not much else going on.

Just the normal end of Summer

and beginning of Fall stuff.

Leaves falling.

Dogs looking at me and asking why

the warm weather has gone away.

I wish I could make it come back.

 

Just a moist Tuesday in the woods.

 

~ JC ~

Mid Late Thoughts

 

~ Many things ~

 

I'm still at the beach. It's very quiet here. Just me and the Purr and Fur Gang. Jodie has been having too much fun barking at the Deer, Seagulls, Eagles, dogs, people walking on the beach, boats in the water. You name it and she's barked at it. I remind her not to do it by showing her the bird house or the spray bottle. My girl will always be a talker. She's like me. Maddy Jean is just enjoying the Summer. Relaxing like an old Golden should while watching her sister be silly.

 

My days are spent reading and taking the girls outside. This place was kind of built weird. From what we heard, there was a big nasty divorce in the middle of building this home. It's a grand place but has so many odd things about it. One being that there is no stairs to the back yard. The owners had the steps riped off the deck. We even have boards hanging off into the unknown. Anyway, this means that I have to go down two flights of steps and go through the basement, to let the girls go outside. I don't mind a few steps but every time I let them out it's an ordeal. So, many times we make an afternoon of it. I get a bag ready with my book, reading glasses, something to drink, bottle opener, chap stick, a few dog bones and whatever else I've thought of.

 

I sit by the water and read my book. Sometimes we are down there for hours and other times just twenty minutes. Either way, the girls get to play. Lately, with the hot days we've been having, we go back up the lawn and I sit on this big rock. How or why it's there I don't know but it makes a good seat. I can still see the water and sunsets but usually it's in the shade. I watch the girls play or rather I watch Maddy Jean bark at Jodie and Jodie does her herding routine. It's quite entertaining. After a while, I go into the basement and ask if they are ready. Most times, Maddy Jean is and Jodie will come in too. Then up those stairs we go. Maddy Jean and I are the ones who stop and look at them before we go up. She and I are getting older and wish it was two or three steps instead of what it is.

 

On Monday, I'm going back into town. Leaving the Purr Gang here in the air conditioning. I have my heart surgery done on Tuesday. It's supposed to be a day surgery. I wish. I hope. My surgeries with my kidney were supposed to be day too but with my ever fast and low beating heart, I went up to the cardiac care unit. Maybe this time, they will fix me and I'll go home like I should. I am having an ablation and I'm told I will be a wake. They want to talk to me off and on. Supposed to take two to three hours depending. Oh, do I know how to have fun or what.

 

When I'm done, I hope to be able to get back to the beach to be with the Purr Gang. I don't like to leave them for longer than a few days. Kind of like when you go camping on a weekend. My Purr Gang won't even miss me. Jasmine will but the boys just nap in the sun and cool off with the air conditioning. Yes, I am spoiling them.

 

I'm also in a mid later life crisis. I know I'm a bit late on this but I was busy raising kids and being sick. I wanted so much when I was young. Now, that I'm old I have all that I wanted. (I grew up very poor and wanted a small house with flowers and cats and dogs.) It's the emotional things that I didn't get right. I still don't have that figured out. I try. Oh, you can't say that I don't try. I'm just a bit sad right now. This will pass. I know that next week or after, I will be happy as can be. It's just that I'm so tired of the constant struggles I have. One being with my daughter. The fact that I've done all I can and still it won't get better. I have let her go. Only she still lives with me. At my other house. She's looking for work but until then she'll be with me. Thus, I can't move on til she has. All emotional stuff. I can't fight anymore. I just don't have it in me. So, until she is gone and on her own, I will have this going on. I'm too old for this.

 

So, On Tuesday my heart gets fixed. I hope for great things. Like enjoying the rest of the Summer. I have a camping trip to Kalaloch planned. With this nice weather, I've imagined being there. Only it will probably rain, like it always does when I go camping. Oh well, at least it will be on the Ocean.

 

And, there you go.

My thoughts on Thursday.

 

~ JC ~

 



What's Going On

( a photo I found which looks a lot like previous cats I've had.

Thomasina and Sapphire.)

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It's Tuesday in my woods.

Lots of noise today.

Garbage trucks.

Bark being delivered.

(that time of year)

 

My Purr and Fur Gang are doing fine.

The cats have been quiet.

Sitting in the sun the last few days.

Meredith Ann went out for her first

walk about the back porch area.

She is the only member of the purr gang

who will let me put a leash on her.

She explores.

Sits in the sun.

Doesn't mind most noises.

If the others, could do that,

they'd be outside too.

 

The dogs are loving the nicer weather.

If I stand out on the deck,

they play and roll and have a grand time.

 

Me, I'm doing ok.

Each week is better.

I've had a few setbacks

but I am still hopeful

that this lousy surgery has fixed

my terrible kidney.

Course, I thought the previous surgery

had done that.

That's where the being hopeful comes in.

 

What else can I do ?

 

I have two more weeks til my

next surgery which will

remove the remaining stent.

(when you have major kidney surgery

you are sent home with

several 'extras' which get

you through til your six

weeks are up.)

Not fun but all part of the deal.

 

At this time, it's been decided

that I will not have heart surgery.

My meds have calmed it down.

Course whenever I have another

surgery, it will do it's thing

but til then, I think I'll just

take my meds and pretend.

 

The good thing about all of this

is that it's helped me lose

a bit of my

old lady who lives in the woods

weight.

 

I hope, see I do that a lot,

to keep it off.

Who cares how I lost it,

I just want it to stay away.

 

And, that is my

Tuesday from the woods update.

 

~ JC ~



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 ~