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Thank you so much @Krystyna23040
Thank you so much @Krystyna23040I love this sheep painting @gennepher
Thank you IanMorning all from a grey start to what promises to be slightly more sunny here. Hopefully not such a logorrheic* post today. @gennepher the sheep face is wonderful and I saw two cats. Thank you. @Krystyna23040 I gave you a winner for both the bg drop and being so aware of what works for you. It is always N=1. @lindisfel the like was because you don't ignore the need to manage your health. Ownership and agency matter whatever one's age. @alf_Josiah hope the new smart meter is all you wish for and hug for fbg. @jjraak yesterday sounds wonderful and I'm liking the respawning idea if I'm not totally owning the meaning. @Annb good news on the liver scan but hug for the lack of feedback. All I can say is I received full details of my scan so there may be some kind of post code lottery - whatever that urban myth really means. Enjoy your day - do we really always have to strive to go one better and have our best day - is living competitive now?. I thought continual improvement went out of management theory ages ago. *came from here - the link to the American piece is wonderful if very long. The way we, Boomers 1 and 2, were really wasn't any of the things it was cracked up to be. It was The Patriarchy and The Man feeding us bull manure - same old same old.
Brilliant Monsieur Porc @dunelmGood evening everyone - late, but then again I have been mainly sampling public transport systems in the way of trains, busses and aeroplanes as well as how efficient the ‘fast track’ system is at passport control and ‘speedy boarding’. Hand luggage only is the way to go - and soft luggage rather than a box thing on wheels. So. Art thing - here is a Monsieur Porc to keep you going.
A splendid well nourished Dudley Duroc. Quite a departure but displays your wide skill set.Good evening everyone - late, but then again I have been mainly sampling public transport systems in the way of trains, busses and aeroplanes as well as how efficient the ‘fast track’ system is at passport control and ‘speedy boarding’. Hand luggage only is the way to go - and soft luggage rather than a box thing on wheels. So. Art thing - here is a Monsieur Porc to keep you going.
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Great painting of the lamb.Fbg 6.8
Last night, Midnight wanted me to go to bed, and tells me by coming up to me, meowing, and leading me to the bedroom. But it was still early and I have a couple of jobs I want to finish. After trying to lead me to the bedroom several times, he got in a mood, stamped both his back paws on the floor and stormed out through the catflap. By the actual time of Midnight he had not come back in, so I went outside to look for him. I walked straight into Foxy Loxy who shot off. I tried to get Midnight come in and he wouldn't let me pick him up so I left him . But with him not being well with a respiratory infection relatively recently, I hadn't wanted him to be outside during the night just yet. It is still too cold. So I came in. I was worried in case the badger was out there because I have seen KissyKissy go for the cats and there was a kerfuffle and a scream noise off screen when I've seen that. One time, Kissy Kissy came back in to the screen view and was limping, right front paw injured, Merlin was the one that did that, I think.
Anyway, I went in the kitchen to make my bedtime, drink, and Midnight, shot in through the catflap. He was very vocal, as if I had shut the back door in his face when I came back in, and if I had stood at the door, saying come on Midnight come on Midnight he would have eventually deigned to come in. But I was mindful in case KissyKissy appeared, who would've come off worse in a confrontation between me, and a badger?
By the time Midnight had finished vocally telling me off in the kitchen, he is leading me back to my bed again, so all was well and he stayed on my bed the rest of the night.
Nighttime wildlife camera...
A very stormy night for cat Merlin...
Creative is a digital painting of a sheep. I worked for over an hour on that face, losing the detail, getting it back again! Finally I stopped! Sheep fascinate me. And I think I need to work on the structure and the detail of the sheep, especially their faces, and before I can do more (not abstract), but trying to work towards my style of painting a sheep. I need to do the study first, which is what I think I am doing here. At least I hope I am doing that.
So, you might be stuck with me doing this sheep study for awhile...
Time for a cuppa. Midnight has gone outside. He is waiting for the sun to reach my back garden, which it doesn't until about noon and then only for a couple of hours for him to sunbathe. I do the easy option, go to the warn side of my front window, I get the sun for about 5 hours there...
Have your best day!
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Thank you @gennepher , I nicked some of my mothers paper and ink - she has loads of nice fully sized paperBrilliant Monsieur Porc @dunelm
Thank you @ianpspurs - I will get back to may building works tomorrowA splendid well nourished Dudley Duroc. Quite a departure but displays your wide skill set.
Thank you for the poem Ian. Very apt for tomorrow.A poem for tomorrow as a card for you all
Alistair just came in with the post and told me the saga of the delivery of pups. It started off the night before when he had to finish off some laundry for delivery this morning, getting to bed about 11pm.Then, in the morning, he had to bath the 5 pups he was left with. To do that, he got up at 3 am. He got Em up and they got to the ferry terminal in good time and had a reasonable crossing.
The arrangement was to meet the new owners of 4 of the pups at Golspie railway station - one to take 2 pups and the other 2 to take one each. 2 people were waiting at the station and happily went home with their new pets but the 3rd one wasn't there. They waited, and waited, and waited. Nobody came. At last, after waiting for an hour or more they had a phone call from DIL to say she had a message on some social medium to say the people were unfamiliar with the area and had followed their SatNav into a wild and difficult "shortcut" - just a country track really. And they had gone off the road and were stuck in a ditch a couple of miles off the A9. And their phopne had no signal. Alistair was volunteered to go along this side road to find them and try to pull them out of the ditch. He had little idea where the side road was but off they went along the A9 and, as it happens, drove straight past the end of the road without realising. Having arrived in Brora, he realised that they had missed the turning so turned back and retraced his route. By this time, he had received another message to say that the couple he was looking for had walked and were waiting at the end of the road. That allowed him to identify the right turning.
He had to collapse the cage the pups were in to make room for the couple in the back seat, so they had to sit and nurse the pups while they drove back to their car. Alistair says it was a lovely scenic route to be enjoyed on a gentle, leisurely drive on a Sunday afternoon, but by no means a shortcut to save time. The trouble was,Alistair had no tow bar and had left his tow-rope at home. He only had an ordinary rope on the boot. He managed to tie it onto his car giving several strands of rope for strength. Then the other man tried to use the screw-in device at the back of his car, but part of it was missing. What to do? At that point, a police car arrived having had a report that someone had gone off the road (another driver had tried to get through and couldn't because the car in the ditch was partly blocking the narrow road). Unfortunately, they had no idea what to do either. Then a Land Rover came to the rescue. The driver had seen the pickle they were in from higher up the hill so had come to help.
He maneuvered into position and got out his tow-rope (essential kit in the Highlands) only to be told that the towing hook was missing. OK, so he needed to turn around to bring his rear in position to pull the out from the front. He backed up the hill to find a place he could turn, Alistair following to get further up the road to get his car out of the way. The Land Rover got stuck in a muddy spot! The husband of the couple, the 2 policemen and Alistair had to put their shoulders to it to push it out. Then the Land Rover backed down to the ditched car. The police said that their vehicle was in the way so they removed it and themselves from the scene.
In the end it only took seconds to pull the car back onto the road and, once they had ascertained that there was no damage, the pup was loaded into the car and the couple made their way home. Alistair then found that the remaining pup had got back into the car by himself and wormed his way under the back seat from where he had to be extricated. He was popped back into the reassembled cage and they went on their way.
Of course, all this had wasted lots of time and more time was lost when Alistair's SatNav took him on a chase cross country but eventually they arrived at their last destination and offloaded the last pup. They got back to Inverness and the hut they had booked (like a yurt but made of wood) and just both fell asleep - Alistair having driven for 18 hours. Next morning they collected the bath and did some shopping and headed to Ullapool and home.
What fun! It was an adventure for Em anyway. Unfortunately, today she is shattered and couldn't go to school.
She will have the best art stuff @dunelmThank you @gennepher , I nicked some of my mothers paper and ink - she has loads of nice fully sized paper
Thank you @ianpspursA poem for tomorrow as a card for you all
Another wonderful sheep painting. The cats are all into this.Fbg 6.7
Midnight stayed outside until 9pm, then came charging in through the cat flap. The temperature had dropped...he wanted my electric blanket on...so did I...
Twice he went out in the night, but quickly came back in again, so, I assume bathroom needs! The temperature had dropped to below zero...
Looks like the sky is lightening... it had been clear in the night with pin sharp stars... and looks like we may get sun today. I hope so.
Yesterday we had sun, and in my back garden on one of the chairs was a new ginger cat. He was a massive handsome well fed tom cat, absolutely stunning ginger colour with amazing markings. He sat in that garden chair as long as the sun was shining on it. Merlin had vanished, he was gone all day. Midnight went out to have a chat with this new tomcat, but quickly came back in and wanted to sit on my lap. Later on GhostCat1 (also a handsome ginger tom cat) came into my back garden and the two tomcats had a yowling match within millimetres of each other's face. I left them to it. Midnight stayed indoors for the day which was probably the safest action. Leave the arguing to the other cats...
At supper time, Merlin was back on the swing, and I made a fuss of him and gave him some nice wet cat food. He allows me to scritch him under the chin, scratching on his head, and also his cheeks. But I am not allowed to touch anywhere on the rest of his body. I have never seen Merlin challenge or fight another cat, he always backs away and goes and hides in my vegetable garden. But he has no problem going for/chasing the fox, or chasing the badger, if the badger (usually KissyKissy) is far too close to him. I googled see how safe are badgers and foxes with cats, and the information I read suggested that cats did not take on a badger or a fox, and always kept their distance. But it's not like that in my back garden. Both cats, Merlin and Midnight will take on the fox and also the badger...
I had been worried all day in case something had happened to Merlin, because he never leaves the swing during the day, but I assume he had gone for a place of safety, with that new massive tomcat being in the back garden, and Merlin might've been hiding the front garden. The catfood I put out there yesterday in the front garden vanished quickly, but I never saw who ate it. I realised there was room under the ivy for another stray cat pod, should something need emergency shelter. I know hedgehogs hibernate in the front garden in the woodpile I have underneath the Ivy.
Wildlife nighttime camera.
A windy night for the Fox.
Foxy Loxy is startled by the wind chimes and wind noises...
Creative is another digital sheep painting.
I am sitting in bed with a lovely hot cup of tea from my brilliant vacuum flask. And I am watching sparrows, blackbirds, ravens, the robin, Mrs Bluetit and Mr GreatTit (both last year's birds), and the dunnock. And also Jade is eating breakfast and Merlin is watching her.
Have the best day you can.
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Glad you had a relaxing uneventful journey home @dunelmGood morning everyone on a bright yet sharp frosty morning here in the dark and dangerous north. Uneventful trip home yesterday, just the way I like it. Just leave one place, travel, then arrive safely at the destination. No delays and no spectacular tales of the unexpected. So, another day when we don’t indulge the sales pitches of card manufacturers, rose growers and any amount of exotic clothing available at outlets throughout the actual world and the virtual one run by Mr Beezos Beetlejuice. But, we are off to spend a voucher we received at Christmas time in exchange for a fancy full English - dancing bouzouki players excluded. Art bit, back with this ruin. It could take longer to complete than the actual build in the first place. Have the most smashing day that you can manage to have. I have reacquainted myself with my cafetière. “This is my cafetière.There are many like it, but this one is mine”. - or is the quote about rifles? I forget. Must need more koffy.
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