Monday, January 25, 2016

kitties..............

Hi there,

I just received an email from a friend, with cats, kittens, dogs and puppies, in various positions, on various, previously never considered to be comfortable snuggle-spots.....and some really inventive ones too :-)

The other day it was about 20 degrees fahrenheit here, and our fuzzybutt wanted to go for his usual after-nap-walk, so I put him in his harness, snapped the leash on him, grabbed the keys and trotted outside........ only to be pulled off my feet by a fuzzy cream colored lightning bolt, trying his darnedest to get back inside. LOL. I had warned him, but would he listen? NAH!

In explanation of the next bit, I have to tell you something. The computer sits on the dining table, next to a small bookcase which houses the printer, dictionaries and some other books, on top of which, is our desk lamp. Next to the computer on the table, under the desklamp is one of Perky's beds....... (Can you see where this is going? LOL)  I've never laughed so hard in my life. After I got his harness off again (I think it was a record in time that he had it on before it came back off) and opened the door from the hallway to the living room he leaped!  He never touched the table, sailed right over it, into his bed and was cosying up to the desklamp as best he could in one move!
The picture is taken on one of his more sedate moments, but it is quite fun when you're working, and one of his paws reaches out, touches your hand, and dissappears back into the basket :-)



Some of the pictures from the email are:  (Actually, it's all of them, they're so darn cute!)













See what I mean?
Nothing to tell on the news front, I was just hoping ease you into the week, and maybe make you smile :-)

Don't forget to hug a loved one?
Hugs,
Pauli

Friday, January 1, 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Have you survived the "changing of the year" ok?  Did you make it till midnight? :-)

Although we weren't able to last till midnight for some years, while living in the US, we have a whole new reason to stay up here..... Fireworks started at 2 PM New Years Eve, and it was still going around 10 this morning..... Perky was in a state. Not flying around the house like he did the first year we were here, but he was definitely trying to get under and in places, we all knew he wouldn't fit, so we stayed up with him. Mike called it good around 12.30, I went and took a nap around 6 this morning. Right now, the little fuzzybutt is laying on the back of the couch, his head on my shoulder, gently snoring and all together too tired to care...... We're good for another 364 days.

We have no plans for the day, no "list" of things we want to do in the coming year, we just want to "do better" in a lot of different departments of our life, as I'm sure do a lot of people. If you watch the news, be it national or international.... there's crap of different proportions going on everywhere, and it's hard not to get gloomy over it. Knowing that that state of mind does nothing to improve the situation, does not seem to change it though.

Just saying HI and apologize if it sounded like I would hiss if anybody wanted contact :-)  Nothing of the kind will happen. I wouldn't want it that way. I think it was more of a "thinking out loud" to keep a close eye on priorities for the next year. To make a plan and work things out around it, instead of adjusting the plan. LOL.

Kitty moved from the back of the couch and wormed himself under the computer and it's starting to get very tiresome to keep the laptop off the lapkitty, so I'll be on my way. I hope this year will bring you all you need, and nothing you don't.

Don't forget to hug a loved one?

Hugs,
Pauli