Wednesday 09-08-2016 – Honouring Book Lovers (and Cat Lovers) Day

World domination or growing your own nip – either will work. Once upon a time, reading actual books with kits in your lap was peaceful and favorite past time. I’m guilty of using an e-readers but purhaps I will go back to holding a book. Remember that reading books in the bath can results in fines. 😆

I started watching the PBS series “Crimson Fields.” It’s about nurses on the front line in WWI and their experiences.

Cya and have a happy~
PG

Los gatos y los libros son la mejor combinación (Spanish)

What a great theme!! And of course, the sweetest pictures.

Lagatta, yes, I plan on keeping Peso. He has entrenched himself into the woodwork of the family and into all of our hearts. He’s a sweet kitten, although a bit ornery, but that makes him so endearing. Everything is a toy to him, and his antics make me laugh.

Speaking of antics…is there anything funnier than a pig at the fair that cuts loose in the show ring running? Because they always fall down–down isn’t very far–and they slide on their chins and shoulders kicking up sawdust, scramble to get back up and run again. All you see is a smiling pig (yes, they do look like they are smiling) and butt cheeks running in the opposite direction. And the kids showing them trying to keep from laughing, keeping an eye on the judge and another on their pig. 😆

MS, I get so annoyed when one of my cats yaks on the bed. Of all the places in the house to yak, why the bed? 🙄 I thought that plant looked like a zucchini, and am familiar with the gunnera but have no place to grow a plant that large. The leaf does resemble the leaf of the zucchini though.

No, my friend doesn’t gift wrap the fruits before she puts them in the mailbox…she’s in too big of a hurry to get rid of them I guess!

Out to dinner for my birthday then again on the weekend. Mr. KZ will be gone all weekend for a shooting competition and am hoping for some down time alone with my cats. I’m afraid my girls have something else in mind for me–like putting corn up at MY house. UGH! Just because we grow it here, doesn’t mean we have to put it up here ladies… 😛 Tee hee, where else can I vent but on TDK?

I didn’t know what Special Day it was today until I dropped in after a rather long absence . . . but the cats were obviously using it to cast a spell and drag me back!

It’s lovely to see that TDK is still doing well. I shall be back – really.

=^.^=

I’ve been to rodeos and 4H shows and that’s exacting how it is with the pigs. Although I think this is mean, greased piglet…

CONCATS on your walk, JJ. The weather is cooperating too!

Purrhaps you can ask the thrift shop if they have someone that can help take the books, Lagatta. It’s a waste the books are sitting around without a home. I’m sure your literary olio doesn’t include Harlequin romances so it’s a good investment.

I guess we need to TDK kits to read and cast spells to get you over CWS. How are you?

The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee knows the rules. 😆

You’ll be retired soon enough, AV. Paws crossed that JUI stays sober.

COA for today’s TDK!

night KJ!

This is stunning!

http://www.lifeaspire.com/7348/cameraman-captures-footage-in-ocean/?utm_source=genm&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=main&src=genm

CWS, great to have you back posting. You were missed. Thank you cats for dragging you back.
AV, did you see that I had made your Orange Chicken recipe and it will definitely be a repeat recipe for us, especially the sauce which totally makes the meal. Pigeon peas sounds interesting.
JJ, I am not surprised you haz a tired. 5 miles = 8 km
KZ, I can just picture the mayhem and noise of an escaped pig ducking and diving away from it’s handler and the laughter of the crowd.
PG, great vid of whales acting carefree and weightless.
We have a dry day here so far which is wonderful. HRH is sprawled on the deck sleeping.

Oh gosh, I feel very honoured – and humbled – by so many welcome back messages! It’s just been rather difficult over the last months, losses in the family and of friends, all sorts of sad times, and it’s hard to come in and have a smile and a laugh when you’re feeling very down. But I have missed TDK, and I really must get myself back to business soon.

Merlin is doing fine, and we have been adopted by one of my cat cafe clients as a handy bed and breakfast spot – she’s been spending pretty well every night with us as well as sharing a couple of meals a day indoors instead of out. In fact she’s only just gone – 4.00 am is her getting-up time, almost to the minute, so she has a bite of breakfast and then takes herself off to somewhere else for the morning. She’ll probably be back this afternoon for a sunbathing session – she does like the windows at the back, where she can doze and keep an eye on her garden!

On the books side of the day, I’ve been trying to get my Mum’s travel book into shape for publishing, but it isn’t quite there yet. She used to take a section out for edits and additions, but the edited version didn’t always go back into the same copy as it had come from . . . so the copy I have has a few missing pages still! Oh well, I’ll see what I can do to fill the most glaring gaps from my own memories. Mum wrote it originally for an aunt who was fascinated by all the places Mum had been to, having never left the city where she herself had been born at the time.

My Mum was always a cat lover too, as well as a book lover, so I hope you’ll forgive her appearance here!

Mmm, is the Caribbean chicken marinated, AV? That sounds delicious. And do hope young man stays straightened out…

I am taking the books to a thrift shop, but only a few at a time, on the bus or in my bicycle panniers… no, no Harlequins. I kept all the books in Italian, Spanish, German etc; in short anything that isn’t in French or English, as they are harder to find in libraries here.

Le Chaînon is a charity that helps women in crisis, including homeless women, with an initial shelter and transitional apartments… That is where I always take my “stuff”.

CWScotia, glad you are feeling a bit better. Your mum’s book sounds fascinating.

KZ, yes, enjoy your birthday all week. I do tend to confuse kz and kj, just the initials, not the people or their cats…