What went before: So, I’ve read 108 out of a possible 197 manuscript pages. Will finish that tomorrow.
Otherwise, a Very Quiet day here at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory (except Now, because Trooper is yelling for Happy Hour NEOW!). I am for some reason Just Exhausted, so it will be an early night hereabouts.
I watched “Rogue” last night from Dr. Who. The Doctor did look ever-so-tasty in his Regency duds, though I’m going to be very disappointed in him if he doesn’t find the lad.
Hope everyone has had an enjoyable Friday.
Stay safe; I’ll see you tomorrow.
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Saturday. Cloudy and cooler.
Slept late. Thinking about sleeping some more, but! Today is change-the-cat-boxes day, so — duty first, then nap, if I’m still So Inclined.
It rained last night — a lot — and the ‘beans are calling for more, off and on, during the day.
Tali and Rook did engage me before breakfast in a vigorous game of Spring, which presently goes like this:
1 Rook and Tali Gather Round, looking up at me Expectantly.
2 I Produce a Spring and show it to them.
3 They wriggle.
4 I throw the spring.
5 They chase it at turnpike speeds (Tali runs faster than Rook, but this isn’t an advantage, as she often over-shoots the target).
6 Rook (usually) recovers the spring (if Tali manages to get to it first, he takes it away from her), and brings it back to me, so I can throw it again.
6a If Tali retains the spring, she bats it around until she loses it, then comes back to me, eyes wide, waiting for me to Produce a Spring. However!
6b The game ends when the spring is lost.
7 VARY: Rook hides the spring and then comes back to me, eyes wide. I go find it and throw it again. This Variation has a three-throw limit or ends when 6b is invoked.
So, that’s the news from the Cat Farm. I note that this time last Saturday, I was driving twisty little roads through tidy Vermont towns in the Pouring! Down! Rain! and wondering if it just made more sense to pull over, buy a house, and never drive anywhere again.
What’re y’all doing that’s interesting, today?
Well, today it’s Rhubarb Pie Day, as in baking, not eating.
Eating it is tomorrow at the church picnic.
It turns out that lots of people enjoy my rhubarb pie, but I am pretty much the only person who makes and takes one to the picnic. So, I get my rhubarb pie fix but don’t need to consume all that sugar, by eating the whole thing–as much as I’d like to! ;-}
I like the spring game. I was so surprised the first time I met a cat who enjoyed a game of “fetch.” I had never heard of cats doing the “chase it down and then return it for more” game. Mine don’t. Give yourself time. Yes, you’ve been back home for a week, and thus back to familiar surroundings and routine, but it still takes time to truly recover and settle back in, especially as the stress had begun before you even left.
Hopefully putting some of the gear used for Balticon’s main test back up in the garage’s attic by way of pulleys and rope (and extra hands).
Tonight is Pizza-Night for family & friends with home made pizzas.
The spring game sounds fun. Our cats do not return objects to be thrown. Just expect more objects. Clothes pens grasping bits of yarn tossed on to hardwood floors is good until lost.