Walking the cat
Jillian couldn't hang out with me the Friday before she was due to leave, turns out that was fantastic because that night Elly woke me up by vomiting horrificaly in her sleap about 3am and the next day was the first of about a week or being incapable of leaving the house due to my own illness. Elly and I were called back home a few days before full recovery to help at home, so basicaly everyone at home also got sick... at leawst once.
After I recovered but while having to take care of the ailing people in the house (one by one for the most part) I spent whatever free time I had in the garden where I've planted a bucn of things, including a petunia and four pansies that I found abandoned around the trailer park. The petunia actualy came from a lot where the house was taken away, the pansies came from a trailer that was vaated about a month ago. My dead tree came back to life... or at least it's growing a new tree from the bottom of the old one, I'll probably have to cut top off the original part to make room, and I've got three new shrubs. Purple, red and orange flowers. The one with purple flower should get about 3X3 ft, and the other two are the same species and should get maybe 6X6 ft. I uncovered a brick path that took two days to completely uncover and is still horrificaly muddy but a good storm or two should help. It doesn't go all the way to our steps so I moved some stuff around, elongated the path a bit and am working on a small patio at the bottom of our steps. It's functional at least. The fire ants are getting horrible, I almost can't do anything out there, I actualy got bitten yesterday. My foot was actualy covered with ants, but amazingly I escaped with only five bites and by using medication and ice instantly I've actualy stopped it from getting too bad. I dont think I'll be getting tracers this time at least.
Pepper went missing a few days ago, and after the third day we just assumed we wouldn't see her again. Then the night before last I took the dog out for our nightly walk, and I could hear a cat crying a bit ahead of us. It didn't even occur to me that it was Pepper because she's so quiet and keeps to herself, so assuming it was an unknown kitten I started to make plans to take the dog back after disposing out the rubbish and come back to look under the trucks for any lost kittens. Then suddenly there was a lot of scratching and thudding and a dark fuzzy shape came flying off the foor of a trailer at us. After that Pepper's been almost inseperable from Saffy. She and Saffy spend more time together than ever before and Pepper's a lot more friendly now, to myself and mum at least and she's so fixed on spending time with Saffy that she actualy goes for walks with us. I mean, she honestly follows us all over the place, sometimes walking shoulder to shoulder with the dog.
After I recovered but while having to take care of the ailing people in the house (one by one for the most part) I spent whatever free time I had in the garden where I've planted a bucn of things, including a petunia and four pansies that I found abandoned around the trailer park. The petunia actualy came from a lot where the house was taken away, the pansies came from a trailer that was vaated about a month ago. My dead tree came back to life... or at least it's growing a new tree from the bottom of the old one, I'll probably have to cut top off the original part to make room, and I've got three new shrubs. Purple, red and orange flowers. The one with purple flower should get about 3X3 ft, and the other two are the same species and should get maybe 6X6 ft. I uncovered a brick path that took two days to completely uncover and is still horrificaly muddy but a good storm or two should help. It doesn't go all the way to our steps so I moved some stuff around, elongated the path a bit and am working on a small patio at the bottom of our steps. It's functional at least. The fire ants are getting horrible, I almost can't do anything out there, I actualy got bitten yesterday. My foot was actualy covered with ants, but amazingly I escaped with only five bites and by using medication and ice instantly I've actualy stopped it from getting too bad. I dont think I'll be getting tracers this time at least.
Pepper went missing a few days ago, and after the third day we just assumed we wouldn't see her again. Then the night before last I took the dog out for our nightly walk, and I could hear a cat crying a bit ahead of us. It didn't even occur to me that it was Pepper because she's so quiet and keeps to herself, so assuming it was an unknown kitten I started to make plans to take the dog back after disposing out the rubbish and come back to look under the trucks for any lost kittens. Then suddenly there was a lot of scratching and thudding and a dark fuzzy shape came flying off the foor of a trailer at us. After that Pepper's been almost inseperable from Saffy. She and Saffy spend more time together than ever before and Pepper's a lot more friendly now, to myself and mum at least and she's so fixed on spending time with Saffy that she actualy goes for walks with us. I mean, she honestly follows us all over the place, sometimes walking shoulder to shoulder with the dog.