Saturday, July 16, 2022

what I do with my days, the stray, and pink things


Well, it's been 6 days since I last posted but nothing is happening, nothing changes. I spend the time between breakfast and lunch over at the studio filling molds except for Tuesdays and Thursdays when I'm either doing the week's grocery shop or I'm at SHARE. After lunch we spend the hot afternoons binge watching streaming shows. Then it's walk the dog, though we skipped three days in a row because even at 6:30 it was just too hot still to go out, and fix dinner.

Currently we're watching The Boys. We're enjoying it but I don't recommend it if you are sensitive to gore. Almost the very first scene in the very first episode a body explodes into meat grinder mush raining down. They really like this CGI effect and use it a lot. I guess it helps that our TV is small, only 32”. Anyway, it's about a group of people who were 'born' super, 'supes', though it turns out they were made as babies. All their powers are different and/or similar, some dangerous, some just dumb and not really useful, backed by a giant wealthy sinister corporation that manages them, their PR, sends them on missions only there's a lot of collateral damage. They're not all bad but really there's no way to control the most powerful ones and Homelander (think Superman) is the most powerful, mentally unstable, and dangerous of them all. And then there's an underground group of regular humans, if you consider criminals regular, that has pledged to take them out, to undo them with or without government help. Anyway, the plot lines and characters are really good if you can get past the gore. We started season 3 yesterday.

So far I've filled the 6 coral molds, the five I'll use and the extra. The last one I did though I may empty out and redo the volume measure because I'm not sure it's correct for boring reasons I won't go into here.



What else. We've gotten three little rain showers the past week, probably less than an inch all told or just over so not nearly enough. I thought I had found the owner of the little calico or 'tortie' as they are calling her. I posted her picture on a lost and found pet page on FB for the area and a woman responded that it was her cat, they had moved to Houston, had been back a couple of times to find her. I asked where she had lived and she replied with a street that is at least three miles away and here is a woman you can check with to verify. So I had a mutual friend check with the woman who says it's not the same cat. There's more to the story that I'm not going to post here that convinces me beside the fact that I don't think this little cat traveled three miles to my house. I had another lead on a possible owner from the woman who claimed the kitty as hers, saying that the only other cat like this was at a house at an intersection of two streets much nearer to me. So today I stopped there, picked one of the four houses at random and knocked on the door. Are you missing a cat, this cat, and showed them a picture. And yes they were missing this cat but it had run off twice (got it back the first time) and so if I wanted her that was OK because the woman felt like the cat didn't want to stay with them. We talked at length, yes it had on a collar but she couldn't remember what color it was and yes, no tag, yes it is young, less than a year. I'm convinced this is the owner. I gave her my phone number and address if she wanted to come by and have a look. The kitty's name is Lily. So I guess she's mine if I want.

Lots of pink things are blooming...the begonia, the plumerias, the rock rose, the phlox...



 

12 comments:

  1. I think you've got a cat now.

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  2. Sounds like Lily has adopted you! Loved seeing these beautiful blossoms!

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  3. It's so kind and good of you to be open to keeping Lily. She's so lucky to have found such a lovely home. Your flowers are so beautiful.

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  4. Lily knew stability when she found it. I like calico's, and had one once, named Xenia, Warrior Princess. She came with that name, and she earned it. She also found our mentally unstable cat, NoToe, and led him home again. I've probably mentioned all this once or twice; you know how I function now. She probably doesn't like being called Lily, either.

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  5. How lucky!! I wish some one would lose their cat to me!
    Winterish here, and I like it!

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  6. I suspect that you just gained a cat, Ellen, and by now you've probably become fond of it and wouldn't want to say goodbye anyway.

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  7. Animals know when they need to move on and find a better gig! I've heard of "The Boys" but I'm not sure I'm up for ground-beef body explosions. Plus I am not into super heroes or mutants at all. We're still trying to get through the most recent season of "Stranger Things." My enthusiasm for it has diminished.

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    1. We were hooked with Stranger Things, season 4 does all come together and explains a lot. Waiting for season 5. The Boys (which refers to the small group trying to save the world from the supes) is really good. It's not all exploding heads and the characters are well developed with back stories, character interactions, and plot twists.

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  8. Well, you tried to find the owner of Lily and it sounds like the owner doesn't care about that cat at all! So now you are the owner of a new cat! Congrats?! You always have lovely flowers blooming around you!

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    1. I think she cared enough to not force the cat to stay when it didn't want to. She did say if I didn't want to keep her she would try to find a home for her.

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  9. That show sounds like the Pendergast books - not sure I need the actual images in my brain. Not that I actually watch shows anymore. I'm glad Lily found you - you're a safe place to land.

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  10. So, in the dog days of summer, you got a cat: and a fine one, I'd say. My vet told me that the difference between a Calico and a Tortoise-shell, or Tortie, is that a true Calico has distinct color patches, while Torties' colors are mixed, with indistinct boundaries.By that distinction, Lily is a Tortie, but whatever she is, she's cute as can be.

    Your plumeria look fantastic. I'm sure they're loving this heat more than we are. I made it at work until noon today. About five or so, I'll go back and put in another couple of hours. In the height of the afternoon heat, I go to HEB, etc., or do computer work. I'd better settle into the routine, because it sounds like we have another 7-10 days of this.

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