Monday 04-06-2018 – Old Maid's Day? I Don't Think So!

I love Mavis’ attitude…she’s a people cat!! And I’m a cat purrson and I think Mr. KZ wonders sometimes if I’m not crazy. 😆

Cooler here with lower humidity, nice breeze too so I’ll be outside most of the day. I might pull a few weeds, but maybe I won’t…and I’ll just enjoy being outside.

Concept that should no longer exist, with all the permutations of family types nowadays. There are many couples now, especially among people of a certain age, who each keep their own dwelling while having a committed relationship.

In Québec one traditionally became an “old maid” if one was not married by the age of 25 on the feast of Ste-Catherine (25th of November). Catherine of Alexandria was a martyr who was an intellectual and didn’t want to be given away in a forced marriage. Or at least, that was the legend.

Nowadays, of course, many young women are still studying at that age. In French an old maid is a “vieille fille”, but there is also the “vieux garçon”, who was also seen as somewhat useless or odd.

But we can raise a glass to all the catladies and catgentlemen, whether or not they currently have a human companion!

In Rome, gattari (m) and gattare (f). Anna Magnani the most famous among them. http://www.petsblog.it/post/64501/anna-magnani-gattara-e-il-giro-dei-sette-gatti

youtube: Anna Magnani with cats! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=88&v=knFP0XP0qRM

Some of us have found “Mr Right”… more than once. Turned out to be Mr Wrong, at least for us, not necessarily for another person.

We can’t predict the future, but at this point (boomer) I don’t think I’d want to live with another man, even if he’s a keeper. I want my own little place.

Of course, a second set is free but pay shipping and handling. What is handling and why am I paying for? If I want to pay to be handled…. 😉 Good job, KJ-It’s been a month or two since your last self-inflected disaster. If everything in your place gets automatically thin, can I move in?

I’ve had enough of living with someone in military housing and with BF.

Rained all night and pretty much all of today so far. No sun but not too grey a day either and remarkably mild out.
Spent yesterday evening helping daughter and SIL remove everything from the lounge and spare room and pull up the old carpet. They bought new carpet and the layer can do it tomorrow so it was family and friends to the rescue. I believe there will be a hurried skirting board painting bee happening this evening. Gosh it was interesting once the floorboards were revealed and seeing where walls had once been and finding an old hearth.
AV, I would appreciate it if you got your twirling sorted out, I am getting tired of getting wet going out to empty my rain gauge. We have had so much rain since Friday and still it falls.

Well, there was “confirmed bachelor”, but that was a way of alluding to a man being on the gay team, not the straight one. Fortunately that nudge has also pretty much gone by the wayside.

Livia was getting a tiny bit too plump at winter’s end – although I carefully portion her food, she wants no treats or human food and doesn’t eat a lot. She is fine now that she is playing frenetically in the garden, climbing trees etc. Of course she weighs less than 10lb, but she is very small.