June 2017 – Great Outdoors Month

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11 June, 2017 at 5:58 am #859785

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If you enjoy getting out and about, Great Outdoors Month is the perfect month for you! This is often a free or cheap day out for families, and can be a lot of fun. Of course, kits have different ideas about the great outdoors…

What a view indeed!

And this is our very own KJ’s thoughts on nature

“Megan Leavey” is a happy, sad and ever so warm fuzz of a movie. I recommend it-well worth going to see.

Cya and have a happy~
PG

Always b kytooe

11 June, 2017 at 11:25 am #859792

katzenjammer
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PG, you’ve summed up my views on nature purrfectly! I guess that paper bag is to be filled with shoes? I’ll take a concrete cityscape and srsly posh hotel, with gr8 shopping and a spin cycle studio nearby over a nature walk anytime! One of my Knitting Circle cohorts is going to Italy, ie Rome/Florence/Venice for the art. I said I’d prefurr Milan, for the shopping! But hey, to each their own! 😉

11 June, 2017 at 1:57 pm #859798

Kittyzee
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BAHAAAA KJ! Interesting how we like and dislike certain things, but we all agree on one thing…we love cats!!

It’s a beautiful day here again, and it’s going to be HOT! I weeded flowerbeds yesterday so that chore is over until the next time it rains.

Peso has found the cat tree (it looks just like Caddy’s) and he thinks it’s great fun to hide in the boxes and jump out at his sisters.. 😆 Of course they squeal and run, which gives him the great opportunity to chase them. Willow loves running from him scrapple toeing the kitchen floor, while Peso tries to cat him.

11 June, 2017 at 3:59 pm #859801

katzenjammer
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Purrfectly stated KZ! 🙂

11 June, 2017 at 5:04 pm #859802

ecbrown
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Aww, I love hearing about all of the kitten antics of Peso and Aslan too. Any leads on a home for Aslan yet, Joan?

Thanks for the nature pics, PG. I love the hill areas pun.

I hung most of the rest of our artwork yesterday. So nice to get things out of the closet and on the walls! Hubby is going to paint something for our living room, so still some blank space there, but they are gradually getting filled in.

Speaking of hanging things…just heard a crash and Eko had tried to jump up and into a mirror I hung yesterday. Luckily, I hung it securely so no damage to cat or mirror. Crazy kitty…we saw him thinking about it yesterday and picked him up and tried to show him the mirror and that it wasn’t a window or shelf.

11 June, 2017 at 6:15 pm #859804

JerseyJoan
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Amazing how unimpressed cats are with their environment. “Look at the pretty sunset, Comet!” “Aslan! The cardinal is right outside singing his bedtime song!” Meh. *sigh*
I haven’t seen Aslan’s bio on fb yet, so nothing new there.
Getting hot here in Jersey; heatwave starts today.

11 June, 2017 at 7:11 pm #859805

AV
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Hi all! Did my usual Sun cat box cleaning then met Mr. AV for lunch, now reading on the porch with Caddy. Lazy day here!

11 June, 2017 at 7:58 pm #859806

katzenjammer
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JJ, I’m on side with the unimpressed kits! Although I do like flowers (but not indoors). And this a.m. – from indoors – I heard a bird call that sounded exactly like the whistling that construction workers used to do when a girl walked by the site. At least I hope that it was a bird! Hehehe.

Point is there is not a lot of nature around here. Parks, yeah, and the mountain in the middle of our city. But main point is that I cannot sit still unless I’m knitting, I am not allowed to get any sun beyond the bit that I get walking to and fro, so that vetoes the beach, and having spent my summers at our country shack (that’s being polite) meaning 2 months of total boredom has turned me off that sort of vaca for the duration.

Whatever!

11 June, 2017 at 10:27 pm #859809

JerseyJoan
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There’s a bird around here that has that whistle, KJ. Don’t know where he learned it from though! Many years ago there was a Mockingbird in my yard and after I closed the squeaky trunk of my car I heard the same squeak from the tree! Another time when my parents were visiting and we were sitting outside, a mockingbird kept repeating the sound of my neighbor’s boat as he tried to start it! I can still see my father laughing at that!

12 June, 2017 at 2:37 am #859811

Moonshadow_NZ
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Great Outdoors ! I love it. I grew up camping and climbing trees, birdwatching and assisting with egg collection and milking on my Grandparents farm.
That is why I had such a wonderful time last week helping Mr MS feed out to stock he is looking after and watching the ducks,geese and hens that live below me here in the suburbs.

12 June, 2017 at 4:01 pm #859828

TrufflesMom
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Apparently it is a thing to take your cat out on “adventures”! There is at least a book and a website about taking your cat hiking and stuff like that. http://www.adventurecats.org/ is the web site with tales of cats out and about. I would be way too nervous about the dangers taking a cat hiking. (or just losing them)

12 June, 2017 at 5:53 pm #859837

lagatta4
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While I enjoy visits to natural areas, I wouldn’t like a long holiday at a cabin in the woods either. The biting insects for one thing…

I love our Botanical Gardens, especially for picnics, but that is an artificially recreated “natural place”.

KJ, I don’t like Milan at all. It is polluted and not the most attractive city in Italy, except for some famous sights such as the Galleria. There is plenty of shopping in Rome, a city I like very much despite the chaos. I studied in Perugia – a lovely small city with a lively atmosphere as it has two universities, one for foreign students learning or improving their Italian language and culture, and did research for my thesis in Rome (and a bit in Turin, which I prefer to Milan). Another northern Italian city I like is Bologna.
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