Drifting through life

Fifteen weeks ago, I brought home a small kitten shaped ball of fur. Now I have a cat that is longer than half the width of my table. I'm guessing Angel's dad must have been a big boy. At seven months, Angel is almost as big as his mum. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Does everyone remember the shampoos and conditioners available in Australia in the 1980s ? Thick and rich and foamy , they left your hair silky soft and gleaming like a mirror. And tangle free. They were full of all kinds of stuff, chemical stuff, the ingredients list was like something out of a laboratory , just like the shampoos and conditioners were. But my hair loved them! I had soft, shiny, bouncy, curls that were tangle free. Now, shampoos and conditioners are "natural" with the kind of ingredients you might find on your breakfast table. Apple, peach, strawberry.  Or the dinner table, herbal essences, coconut oils this,  argon oil that, morrocan o...

Welcome back to Whimsical Wednesday! The day for your googled giggle that gets you over the hump that is Wednesday and sliding down into the weekend. so far I have not understood any of Angel's art and have now put the toilet paper out of reach.

Welcome back to Whimsical Wednesday! The day for your googled giggle that gets you over the hump that is Wednesday and sliding down into the weekend. cuteness times three! My thoughts are with Angel, today is his big day. Also my youngest grand daughter's tenth birthday. Happy birthday Minnie! (not her real name)

I have a kitten, Angel ,  who wakes me up at 4.30 each morning by licking several layers of skin off my face. Cheaper and probably just as effective, although a little....rough...and I have to cover my mouth so I don't get my lips skinned. His favourite spots are my nose, eyebrows and chin. I can't stand it for long, I have to get up and wash my face off. Then I give him breakfast , which is the real reason he wakes me up I'm sure. He's grown a bit, weighs a whole kilo now.

I'd done a letterbox drop enquiring about the owner and possibly obtaining one of the kittens. Then the other cat also had kittens! I was disappointed to not receive any kind of reply and assumed the kittens had all gone to other homes. Not so. This morning I was at my daughter's house when both mother cats appeared by the window for food. Yes, she is still feeding them.....as I did, taking out half a can of tuna & sardine food. A couple of hours later I looked out into the yard and saw a black and white kitten AND two grey striped kittens! Playing in the grass, romping around my girl's yard. Well, I raced outside to see them better and they took fright and skedaddled back under the fence to their yard. This means there are still kittens there so I'm still hopeful of getting one. I'll buy a small pet carrier and go knocking on their door. I'll ask outright if they would be interested in letting me have a little grey striped girl. They can say ...

I visit my daughter every week or so, she lives across the other side of town and we swap books and dvds. K has one cat and there are a couple of others who seem to have adopted her yard as their own, whenever I am there, they hang around the back door pretending they are starving, so I feed them. Not much, just a handful of dry food each, as clearly they aren't starving, they seem to be quite healthy young cats. This is one of them.... she has wonderful markings.  Just as I snapped the photo she decided to wash herself. Notice the bulging belly? Kittens! I'm not sure when they are due, but I hope she has them where we can find them. We believe she lives next door, but can't be sure. here she is ignoring the camera.  time for another wash. this one is through the kitchen window, she's poking her tongue out at me. So I'm watching for kittens and hoping I can choose one. I think they're old enough to leave mum at about eight weeks? That ...