Wednesday Cafe 12-10-08

Thanks, Joan. Buddy looks like TIKKA – in fact when I opened Rubia’s card and was looking at Tikka’s picture, John and some of his friends were asking when I took the picture of Buddy and then they realized it wasn’t him. Leela is a Maine Coon and is now coming up to me for more attention than she does with John. Last night I went into the garage to say something to John, Buddy had been on his lap and just flew off to come to me! Kind of made John mad!! But Buddy knows who’s really important!

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening? to everyone! Just got into work about an hour ago, woke up with a raging headache! (I know how you feel SAOM!) Its the strangest warm here today, same weather as JFNJ I believe, sixties and rainy! Oh and the wind! Jeepers! Wish the wind could have blown my headache away, instead of blowing my recycling bin all over the porch! I know it couldn’t have been ricin’s favorite buddy, “Big Boy Squirrel”, he only ruins my porch when there is some food to be had! Thats a whole other story folks! Sorry I’m kinda blabbering here…

The whole buffet would do me just fine CM! And some pickles too please! hehe

Oh, and maybe we could invent a new migraine medicine that is actually SAFE to take during pregnancy! Cuz I would love to get me some of that!

JL – watch out for those squirrels – the summer before last – i had one plant his own sunflower in my minature roses! It was funny when we realized who had planted it – of course in his mind he was just hiding a seed for the future – I am amazed that we haven’t found peanut plants growing based on howmany peanuts we would leave out for him and see him hiding them – i know we played with his mind because we would go and find them and put them back in the bowl!

tee-hee Karen! The tree rats (we call them that in a loving way) usually eat the sunflower seeds that I plant! They are fun to watch.

JL – Leela loves to watch the squirrels too. And the birds of course. She chatters at them; it’s so cute. As soon as construction is done, I can relocate my lighthouse birdfeeder to where she (and me!) can see it from the kitchen window. I usually feed the birds from December till about mid March. I love seeing all the different types of birds that come to my yard, especially when it’s snowing, it’s so beautiful.

The rain is really coming down. So glad I don’t have to worry about a leaky roof and water coming in the house. We limped along with it for a long time till we were able to renovate – buckets, towels, the works. Water would run down the walls and parts of the ceiling eventually came down. This project is a long time coming! We’ve been in our house 20 years in January.

Thats wonderful JFNJ! Sorry i think i’m posting a lil behind what you have been writing, i don’t want you to think i’m missin you! The birds are definately a hit with ricy too! When is the construction supposed to be done? (not that they are EVER on schedule!!!!!!!)

OMG – Puff the Magic Dragon???

*frantically stuffs cotton in ears and begins singing White Christmas to drown out earworm*

ACK!!!!!!

So, how is everyone? May I please have a waffle with blackberry syrup?

Hi, CM – it’s cold!!! Well, not by your standards but for those of us with wimpy blood……….

How’s everything there?

I’m heading off today to do what I think is my final bit of Christmas shopping. I still need two gifts but hope to have an inspiration hit! (I wonder if they would like a CD of P,P and M’s greatest hits?)

We passed another construction inspection yesterday. Today they are starting sheetrocking upstairs. It was supposed to start over the summer but the town held us up for 3 months! They started in October and was projected to be 2 months or less. We’re now on week 10 and they have at least 1+ weeks of work. Looks like no tree for Leela’s first Christmas 🙁 but we’ll try to make up for it in other ways. I can’t wait till she can be free from being crated up all day.

Poor Leela! I know she must just love it when you get home and she can be free again! It bothers me and Richard (even tho it’s his fault!) that Buddy and (our) Leela have to stay in the garage but at least we are able to let John keep his babies instead of giving them up – and they are in a nice warm garage instead of sleeping in someone’s car – that is what John would have done if he wasn’t able to move back home with us. It is sad that they don’t have a window to look out of but Leela has found a way to see the outside world by looking thru the cracks in the overhead garage door – it’s funny to see her looking out and then to see Buddy climbing up in to the rafters after the squirrels who are running on the roof. Even Leela with her one eye has been up in the rafters when she hears the squirrels, and that surprised us all – she doesn’t usually go up high on things, but i guess has been watching where Buddy goes and figured out she was safe to try as well.