If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you are fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
---John Spence (attributed)

According to the Old Famer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

Do nothing, rest up, take a nap, enjoy!

We believe we've sorted out why the big male cat has been vomiting.*

Emotional stress. He has a major case of separation anxiety. And, we think, he also experienced getting "ousted" from whatever human family's habitation he'd been living at, due to what we don't know, but judging from some of his other fears which too clearly are fears, he was for ( Read more... )

The local or regional weather forecasts are advising "Frost."

I've been reminding himself, gently, that he has two azalea plants and two roses and six young arbor vitae to get into the ground. It's my belief he's just dawdling so I'll make sure it gets done without him having to do any digging.
I'm of two minds. The roses and azaleas are beautiful ( Read more... )

According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

Cut hay

Get rid of pests and weeds.

And, in case you like keeping track of such things, it is only 65 days until winter begins.

According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

cut hair to encourage growth
make jams and jellies

A day or so ago, I went looking for this poem by American sportswriter (of the late 19th and the 20th centuries) Grantland Rice whose poetry seems fairly typical for his times, but I'd been searching for the wrong title.

I first encountered it in "It Can Be Done/poems of inspiration," a book my dad's stepmother had owned, Heaven rest both their ( Read more... )

"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now." --- John Spence (attributed)

Himself is out and about, having taken a half-day to do some personal and very necessary errands.
He's been complaining about gnats flying around, and since they don't spontaneously generate it stands to reason they were coming for something.

Found it.  The last apple himself was able to salvage from one of his two apple trees. It had been sitting ( Read more... )

Himself tells me Little Grey Lady shows up regularly and that he feeds her at least once a night, but if I'm awake and about the house in the middle of the night she doesn't respond to my taps on the back door window glass, something she used to do so I have to suppose the schedule has changed. He also reports that "Cally," the calico (I know: we ( Read more... )