Caturday Café – 30/6/18 – Armed Forces Day

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30 June, 2018 at 3:50 am #868815

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Armed Forces Day, observed in June of every year, was created to give everyone the opportunity to show their support and gratitude for those who are currently serving in the armed forces, and those who have done in the past. This support and gratitude is not just for those who serve currently but their families. The morale boost that members of the armed forces get from days like this is invaluable and reminds the families and loved ones of armed forces members why it’s so important.

The weekend is here. Have a happy~
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30 June, 2018 at 3:32 pm #868818

JerseyJoan
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Good morning, and Happy Caturday! Been having a bit of trouble posting because my phone is slow, need to do something with my computer.
Much gratitude and respect to those in the Armed Forces family.
Today is my dad’s birthday. No doubt celebrating in heaven, he would be 93 if still here in earth. Think I’ll make brownies in his honor – and share in TDK land!
Oh those cats. Yesterday they left me a bunny and a bird. Later Berta proudly came by with a snake, sigh.
Cats will be cats…

30 June, 2018 at 8:35 pm #868819

Kittyzee
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JJ, I feel your pain. I garden and do what I can to bring birds to my yard with plants and shrubs…then I have to worry about the cats getting them. It’s the cats’ nature to catch things, and these cats are hyper-vigilant about it!

Scorching hot here and don’t really even want to be outside. Did my stuff early. Saw something really interesting I want to try–an insect barn! Making it from things we have around here will bring beneficial bugs to it and I want to hang it by my garden…so excited to tell Mr. KZ. Hope he doesn’t poo poo my project because it will be fun and look so cool!

30 June, 2018 at 11:25 pm #868820

lagatta4
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My mum was not in the Armed Forces per se – she was a civilian War Worker in Ottawa during the Second World War. Her job was to ferret out such things as corruption by companies providing war material – it is shameful to think that some profiteers would deliberately be stingy about such essentials as helmets. There were also landlords who gouged servicepersons stationed in Halifax, a major Canadian port on the Atlantic. She had many stories to tell!

A cousin was a nurse and thus an officer in the Canadian Army, and she had wonderful stories to tell, especially about the postwar period.

1 July, 2018 at 2:29 am #868821

Moonshadow_NZ
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JJ, Happy Heavenly Birthday to your Dad. I saw a funeral notice yesterday for a man who had also dedicated many years to the Scouting movement and at the end was the trail sign for ‘Gone Home’. It is the same for Guiding and I am guessing not many people understood what it meant.
Checking at the wormhole for a brownie.
Ohhhhh fresh bunny for the cats ummm and bird. Oh my Berta, a snake !
I had my little visitor Tinker this morning, she certainly acts strangely and I am so sure she must have grown up without any other cats as she doesn’t know how to cat, but I am trying to teach her. First I have to teach her NOT to try and eat me, she has a habit of biting any parts that move. She also meows(squeaks)hisses and growls all at the same time. I have my work cut out.
AV, I have seen little insect houses and want to make one.

You can also make little houses for skinks or geckos in a similar fashion but with broken terracotta pot pieces as long as they are small spaces for them to crawl into.
Lagatta your Mum was doing a very necessary job towards the war effort that is for sure.
No frost today and this morning was sunny for a short time ad then the clouds moved in and the cold bit deeper. Now it is getting darker and we have rain arriving in a few hours.
I have been busy this morning in the kitchen, I have a bacon hock cooking and a stockpot of vegetable soup also cooking. I will add the mean from the hock to some of the soup and keep the rest straight vegetable. Also found a pork hock and a couple of lamb hocks which I will roast for dinner. I need the freezer space for some of the soups.

1 July, 2018 at 3:22 am #868822

katzenjammer
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Shock and Awwwww! Too cute!

Nary a purrson in the street today or so it seemed. All the news warnings about srs heat make it sound like world is ending. I get it’s health risk for some, but still … then again I do have A/C which I turn off/on when it gets too chilly.

Still way better than cold temps IMHO. Prob gym will be way less crowded than usual tomorrrow as hol wknd and extreme heat. Place has A/C, but for many peeps any excuse not to workout. Not this one, though!

Looks like other condo owned by my landlord might have gotten buyer. hard to know as it’s still listed. But someone had door open and work going on today. No A/C just some dinky battery operated fan. Wonder if they know the place has A/C same as mine. Couldn’t have been fun! And must have been very not fun for peeps moving on our standard moving wknd! Would not want to be hefting boxes etc. in 47C/117F degree heat with humidity factored in.

Previous tenants moved out anyway, planned to do so some time ago. Diff situation for me as I have right to stay if I so choose. Will confirm details w/Rental Board next wk, but from my understanding landlord in effect no longer has right to have condo on market as deadline for repossession notice has passed. If it comes to it my customary “proactivity” will come into play!

Wow! Huge storm has just begun. Sheets of rain! Thunder! Lightening! Love it! Dorry is calmly watching storm from his window seat AKA my ottoman. Doesn’t seem to phase him at all!
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