Friday – 28/11/2014 – It's Black Friday – Getting the Shopping Mojo On!

Friday greetings from Saturday. 😀
Deb, so sorry about your work colleague’s passing and I hope his dear mother can go and live with her sister.
Buttons, guess what some large retailers are doing here, Black Friday sales! When a local newspaper asked people in the street if they knew what it was all about they had no idea and when it was explained to them they thought it was a silly idea. I guess anything goes when it comes to the ‘almighty dollar’ for retailers.
You all sound like you have had a wonderful Thanksgiving day.
BB, want to come and help me clean all my light fittings etc. Have decided that Mr MS’s family Christmas will be at our place this year seeing as no one else is putting their hand up. Sigh. We are going to have to fence off some of the yard so the little grand nephews/nieces don’t fall over the terraces. So much to do and so little time to do it in, will have to recruit daughter that lives near me to help. Sigh again. Guessing that we may as well have my family for the evening dinner seeing as everything will be set up for lots of people. Sigh again.
Joan, LOL at the image of comet asleep on his back with mouth open, I see that in the chair next to me most evening but it’s Mr MS. Was comet snoring too?
KJ, love the bbqing cat pic.
JUst had the lawns mowed so we are looking nice and tidy here but the equinox winds are still blowing strongly and it’s a fight to keep my vege plants alive. Thankfully my beautiful hollyhocks and giant delphiniums are a little more sheltered but the soil dries out very quickly everywhere and we already have fire bans in place and it’s 2 days until Summer officially begins.
Nearly 2pm here and I must go and get myself some lunch.

Hope the bears stay away Joan. Maybe Mac doesn’t snore because outside it would have given him away.
I was tying up my tall flower spikes and heard something rustling in the dead leaves and a little skink or gecko popped out and leaped over a plant pot and under the deck. It’s the second gecko we have spotted today so that means HRH hasn’t got them all. She gets growled at when she catches one so maybe that is paying off now. Mr MS has been busy in his ‘man-cave’ creating a way of me using my garden sprinkler above the garden instead of it sitting on the garden. Mission accomplished and now I have him cutting a round ply top for the large whisky barrel so it can be a stand up table. Having him off work recuperating from surgery has it’s benefits. These are all easy jobs where he doesn’t have to exert his arm too. I haz a happy. 😀 😀
HRH is feeling better and eating more food finally and I am getting her Lysine in to her. She has spent the morning exploring the ‘man-cave’ and coming inside repeatedly for brushes or lurking in the ladder fern. She seems to be a happier cat for some reason only she knows.

Oh snap. Forget about Leela getting her lysine – we have yakkage, sigh.

Funny thing about cats and yakkage. As opposed to humans, who must take time to recover and feel sorry for themselves, Miss Leela was playing with her “nipstick” minutes later! Nice to see, as I haven’t seen her play with anything lately unless it’s interactive with me.

Hmmm, yep, save the bbq for another evening! Nighty-night.

Peeking in to see what’s going on in TDK land 🙂

Love to read the stories and getting the visuals of Comet lying back totally relaxed, Mac lying near the fire, Leela playing (and ok yakking) and HRH checking things out and finally eating again.

Thank you for all the wishes and thoughts for my co-workers Mom and his dog, Max.

So Thanksgiving Eve I hear a weird noise like someone is breaking into my bedroom window, hmmm so I get up and turn on the backporch light….lol, the light is on a ceiling fan and underneath is a Raccoon dancing about on his hind feet watching the ceiling fan! Guess he was trying to climb the Star Jasmine plant for who knows what reason, at least he didn’t wreck the window screen, it was just scratching the window itself.

Jan, it was cute seeing the Raccoon dancing and mesmerized by the ceiling fan 🙂 Now I know who knocked over all the water dishes out in the back yard and maybe who has been doing that to the birdbath in the front yard. Now Kitty keeps going and sitting at the door to see if he sees anything, he always looks out the door when I do 🙂

Yay for HRH eating a double meal!!

Oh yeah I am here with bells on my toes, ok maybe not. Still laughing at the thought of the raccoon in the backyard, silly thing.

Was sitting here thinking about John and his Mom and Max his dog, so wrong that the caretakers are being taken so soon (my brother, John and others) there are so many other air thieves that should be first, sigh. John was a good guy, hoping that he left his insurance to his Mom and I think he has the house paid off (he was excellent with money issues). Just worry about her being alone, she never wanted to go to senior centers or meet and make friends unless John went with her, he tried to get her involved in things.

Ah ha, another suitor is hanging out. Sounds like you have tons of things to do for the upcoming holiday and getting things ready for visitors.

Darn about the Weekend Lounge going undercover.
It is unfair when the carers go first. I hope that John’s Mum is well looked after and that Max has somewhere to go too.

Believe he had enough life insurance coverage, the base insurance for us here is 5 X our annual pay so that is a decent amount (about $250,000) and I believe he paid off the house already and was putting what he had paid in mortgage into investments.