The heat and the dust

[lizblackdog]

*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?

Comments

[kiss-kass.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could acquire a second hand box fan that would fit in the window. You'd get fresh air, added circulation AND keep Cassie indoors.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

That's a good plan. I actually still have some gift vouchers for the big hardware store left over from Xmas - they were set aside for redecorating but I won't be painting any time soon, up to my neck in kittens. I should be able to get a fan type of thing with those.

Thank you :)

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

that was me with the bugs & snakes thing
sodding LJ logged me out for no apparent reason

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I guessed :-)

I have anonymous comments screened now since the troll. Was either that or disallow them and I didn't want to do that.

[james-the-evil1.livejournal.com]

wasn't SUPPOSED to be anonymous at all
I was just clicking thru pages & LJ logged me out

[(Anonymous)]

Your windows don't have SCREENS????
*boggles*
If we didn't have screens, on the few days a year we don't need the AC we'd be instantly infested with disease bearing mosquitoes, giant cockroaches, wild pythons, and who knows what else.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

But I live in a civilised country where we don't have giant cockroaches or wild pythons, and the worst the mossies will do is give you the odd itch.

Although I would actually kill for AC.

Can't expect to live in a tropical swamp and not have tropical swamp wildlife, can you?