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*sigh* Unforeseen drawback to having a cat - I can't open my windows properly any more, and the place is like a fucking greenhouse in the mornings. Fortunately the windows here have safety catches, which means I can at least have them all open two inches, but I can't disengage the catches. I wouldn't put it past Cassie to forget she couldn't fly and take a leap - or Spike either, which is why I've never fully opened his lookout window even on the hottest days.
At some point I'll have to look into making screens of some sort. I have a picture in my mind of a wooden frame with vertical bamboo or dowelling bars, the way we used to have in the hawk-house. Actually, the bars would look coolest on the diagonal but that'd be tricky to make. I watched John do enough woodworking over the years (and helped make the hawk-house windows) that I can see exactly how I'd build them. I'm just not sure I have the manual strength/dexterity to actually do the work.
The ornamental palm trees in the flowerbeds in the Castlepoint car park are in bloom. I took a picture of the flower buds a while ago, because their grainy cauliflower-like forms pleased me:
They look like big pale-green feather dusters now.
I need to readjust Spike's harness every morning. He's a wriggler and he always seems to work it loose. Luckily it's not too awkward because the medium-size harness fits him best with all its fittings cinched as small as they can go. He's such a big bouncy personality that it always startles me to be reminded how little of him there actually is. He's 23" at the shoulder but he's never gone above 40lbs - he's all legs, ears and teeth, bless his heart.
Day off from hospital visiting, not going to Grimmauld Place till after dark, elbow a bit too stiff for IM; I'm too hot and sleepy to be really bored but yeah, I'm at a bit of a loose end. Can you tell?
At some point I'll have to look into making screens of some sort. I have a picture in my mind of a wooden frame with vertical bamboo or dowelling bars, the way we used to have in the hawk-house. Actually, the bars would look coolest on the diagonal but that'd be tricky to make. I watched John do enough woodworking over the years (and helped make the hawk-house windows) that I can see exactly how I'd build them. I'm just not sure I have the manual strength/dexterity to actually do the work.
The ornamental palm trees in the flowerbeds in the Castlepoint car park are in bloom. I took a picture of the flower buds a while ago, because their grainy cauliflower-like forms pleased me:
They look like big pale-green feather dusters now.
I need to readjust Spike's harness every morning. He's a wriggler and he always seems to work it loose. Luckily it's not too awkward because the medium-size harness fits him best with all its fittings cinched as small as they can go. He's such a big bouncy personality that it always startles me to be reminded how little of him there actually is. He's 23" at the shoulder but he's never gone above 40lbs - he's all legs, ears and teeth, bless his heart.
Day off from hospital visiting, not going to Grimmauld Place till after dark, elbow a bit too stiff for IM; I'm too hot and sleepy to be really bored but yeah, I'm at a bit of a loose end. Can you tell?
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