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Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter!

If it is the celebration of the proof of Christ's teachings, the wonder and awe of the Ressurection, or simply and beautifully, the settling in of another spring, and the end of a long, bleak winter, I wish you a joyful Easter Day! If it is the Passing Over of the Angel and the transition to freedom from oppression that you are celebrating, may it also be a time of joy! If it is just about family and love and gathering, still, have a beautiful, wonderful day! Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Sometimes, that cup of coffee calls out...

After several days without, this was the afternoon with that comfort espresso--though it may mean a late night again, into the early morning before I sleep. It's not being wired--just a mellow wakefulness that goes on a bit longer than one might want it to, if one plans to be up in the morning. But it doesn't always work that way. Mary ate quite a bit today, more than her usual. She is curled in deep cat-sleep on my bed even now, nose meeting the tip of the tail, and fur moving up and down with... Sign in to see full entry.

Mary isn't well

Annie's cat, Mary, is ill, doesn't eat much, looks like a sick cat with fur all unfluffy and unhealthy-looking. She purrs when petted just right, but it it clear she is wasting. Several weeks and hundreds of dollars of testing has revealed no diagnosis, no solution. Mary is around 12 years old, a tricolor tabby with large white patches on belly and face. She has always been very much Annie's cat, and no one else's, though she has learned to tolerate others that Annie has insisted on allowing... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Time to get packing

Never left it so long--usually, as soon as I have tickets, the luggage comes out and I start deciding what I can't live without for the duration of the trip. For some reason, not this time. Usually, there is that driving fear I will forget something important, like meds or the recharger for my phone or this hyar laptop. Or one of the many little this'n'thats I want to give someone when I get there... or something I might need... When I was a teen and traveled with my parents, especially on long... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Davy isn't jumping today...

After two and a half hours at the dog park, and some serious play--mostly with a feisty little feist named Grizz, and a young Shibu (think mini-Akita)called Uther--if he is a little sore, there's no mystery to it. He hasn't been there in a couple of weeks, so started out a bit over-excited, and anxious when another newly-arrived, over-excited dog, a golden retriever, got right in his face. There were teeth-snappings and runnings-away, and confusion and the leash brought out, in this no-leash dog... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

There are shadows outside-

cast by sunlight in branches caught and colored by pale new leaves a different hue from the heavy wet green of mosses laden with rain, and the watery shine of persistant trees and shrubs that hold through the winter to sturdy tones of dark, unwashawayable ever-greens. A dog-park day it is where joy is visible and celebrated ardently by dogs of every kind and hue and shape and size and temper, while their human folk stand around and chat. two poems of today Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Friends of Uistlady--

Just thought you might like to know, our Uist Lady is doing well, writing hard, and trying to stand up straight in the winds off the sea. Financial reassessment is the reason she is no longer writing here on Blogit, and she is herself just fine. Here is an excerpt from her latest to me: -------------------------------- Things are revving up here, I've got a big commission of magazine articles to do, and I'm trying to flog a major piece on crofting to one of the glossy English Saturday... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Shadow-folk

An excerpt from a letter We have had arctic air and snow again this week, and record-breaking cold, just after it looked like spring was really making its move. By the end of the week it should be in the 50s F though today, Wednesday, there is still a bit of snow on roofs and rocks, and the green lawn has made a definite comeback. (Calling it a 'lawn' is very generous, considering most of it is dirt, and well-dug by Davy Dog, and, well-amended, so to speak, also courtesy of our Davy.) I think I... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Snowing again--like gangbusters!

Large, warm flakes filling the air, blanketing the branches--the ground, having lately harbored dreams of spring, was reluctant at first to allow it, but by now, it is also all white. By the end of this week, the word is of temps near 50F. And sunshine. That will be nice. But I can't help liking the beauty of the snow. (Wrote this a couple of winters ago, as the cold and dark were coming on... ) Against a clear December sky a chevron of wild geese goes by-- I follow their course with envious... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

An afternoon at the movies...

One of my favorite movies is Kenneth Branagh's Henry V in part because the history fascinates me, and in part because it is simply a breath-taking production. It was on today. The story is Shakespeare's take on English history with an eye towards making the then-current English court look good in its ancestry, and the English the clear Good Guys, in opposition to the French as the clear Bad Guys. That's drama for you, then as now. So the history is slanted in its details. The story builds up to... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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