I'll do it for you, honey baby, can't you tell?

Bones Would Rain From The Sky arrived this morning. I've been meaning to read this forever and I wasn't disappointed.

It felt as though there was nothing in it that I didn't already know. None of it came like a thunderclap of revelation. It was more like the recurring dream I have sometimes, when I walk through a familiar door and find a landscape behind it, green hills, the old walled garden, heathland, rabbit holes and hedges, that I know like the back of my hand although none of it has ever existed in my physical reality.

The key to the dream, though, the big reason why it's the one that makes me happy all day when I wake up, is that in the dream I've always forgotten that the beautiful place exists till I walk through the door and see it laid out before me.

That's what reading this book was like. And now, Spike and Squish and I are going out to play.

May your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine.

I'll do it for you, honey baby, can't you tell?

Bones Would Rain From The Sky arrived this morning. I've been meaning to read this forever and I wasn't disappointed.

It felt as though there was nothing in it that I didn't already know. None of it came like a thunderclap of revelation. It was more like the recurring dream I have sometimes, when I walk through a familiar door and find a landscape behind it, green hills, the old walled garden, heathland, rabbit holes and hedges, that I know like the back of my hand although none of it has ever existed in my physical reality.

The key to the dream, though, the big reason why it's the one that makes me happy all day when I wake up, is that in the dream I've always forgotten that the beautiful place exists till I walk through the door and see it laid out before me.

That's what reading this book was like. And now, Spike and Squish and I are going out to play.

May your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine.

One little promise she was gonna keep

So I listened to what my underexercised dogs were praying for, and we went for a ball game - later than I planned because I remembered today was 45lbs of frozen meat, 50 day old chicks and a sack of cat litter delivery day, and I had to wait till they'd been and gone.

Unfortunately, only Spike got to actually play ball because a bunch of kids turned up with a football of their own. Once upon a time this would have meant up to half an hour to persuade Spike to give the kids' football back and be leashed and taken away - possibly the price of a new ball too, depending on his excitement level, but he's long since outgrown his pitch-invasion days.

But Squish has developed a fear of footballing kids and he wanted to leave, so we left. I took them round the top end of the park and he enjoyed rooting through hedges and he was smiling when we came home, so it wasn't a total let-down for him. Bloody summer holidays. I'll have to work out what times they're not there and plan accordingly. And work on desensitising. It's quite a recent thing. Odd dog.

Am a bit worried (in a paranoid overprotective way) about Spike's wrist. The ground was soft but he slipped a couple of times in a way I didn't entirely like. I've let him get horribly unfit.

One little promise she was gonna keep

So I listened to what my underexercised dogs were praying for, and we went for a ball game - later than I planned because I remembered today was 45lbs of frozen meat, 50 day old chicks and a sack of cat litter delivery day, and I had to wait till they'd been and gone.

Unfortunately, only Spike got to actually play ball because a bunch of kids turned up with a football of their own. Once upon a time this would have meant up to half an hour to persuade Spike to give the kids' football back and be leashed and taken away - possibly the price of a new ball too, depending on his excitement level, but he's long since outgrown his pitch-invasion days.

But Squish has developed a fear of footballing kids and he wanted to leave, so we left. I took them round the top end of the park and he enjoyed rooting through hedges and he was smiling when we came home, so it wasn't a total let-down for him. Bloody summer holidays. I'll have to work out what times they're not there and plan accordingly. And work on desensitising. It's quite a recent thing. Odd dog.

Am a bit worried (in a paranoid overprotective way) about Spike's wrist. The ground was soft but he slipped a couple of times in a way I didn't entirely like. I've let him get horribly unfit.

Tonight I see it all anew

( Daily kittenage under the cut )

Callette was mugging for the camera as usual, Blade was being washed by his mother, and Elda and Shona were playing hide-and-seek under the side-table.

I had to cut the session short due to a music malfunction on the computer - I'd accidentally erased my Squishproof playlist and had to reload everything from the hard drive, including Squishy Ramone's trigger songs which I never did get round to putting in a separate folder. So I got interrupted by Squish doing his timber wolf impersonation to the Dead Kennedys. Cassie didn't like that one bit.

I need a Squishy Ramone icon...

Tonight I see it all anew

( Daily kittenage under the cut )

Callette was mugging for the camera as usual, Blade was being washed by his mother, and Elda and Shona were playing hide-and-seek under the side-table.

I had to cut the session short due to a music malfunction on the computer - I'd accidentally erased my Squishproof playlist and had to reload everything from the hard drive, including Squishy Ramone's trigger songs which I never did get round to putting in a separate folder. So I got interrupted by Squish doing his timber wolf impersonation to the Dead Kennedys. Cassie didn't like that one bit.

I need a Squishy Ramone icon...

Draw blood!

Dead day-old chick gets the Cassie seal of approval

Best cat toy EVAR!!!

(Don't click the link if small dead things will bother you, 'kay? Though the second pic also contains small live fascinated fuzzy baby predators)

Don't know yet if she's actually going to eat it or not. The dogs wouldn't, though they were both fascinated. But if she didn't balk at whole chicken drumsticks she'll probably eat it when she's completely finished playing with it.

Draw blood!

Dead day-old chick gets the Cassie seal of approval

Best cat toy EVAR!!!

(Don't click the link if small dead things will bother you, 'kay? Though the second pic also contains small live fascinated fuzzy baby predators)

Don't know yet if she's actually going to eat it or not. The dogs wouldn't, though they were both fascinated. But if she didn't balk at whole chicken drumsticks she'll probably eat it when she's completely finished playing with it.