heavy lightening/rain storm//pruned the trees, vines, bushes//landscaper showed up//k's biopsy
spent the morning pruning (two hours) in the sunshine. around 90 degrees today. just pruned the vines, bushes, trees in the side yard (which is the big part), and all the dead stuff (thinning it out) over by the palm trees by the main road, some of it is our's and some from the neighbor behind us, who is actually from boca in south florida, so never here and their palm trees and vines are always sticking out over the sidewalk if you try to walk. that neighbor tried to leave money for this last year when i did this (which the guy who traps on the corner took and then the fiasco begins when his sister tried to pay it for him. why are people like that? like monkeys, always stealing"taking" what isn't their's and no he doesn't need it?)
i told the guy to keep it and feed stray cats and get them fixed rather than get into it with him. sometimes if you let someone think they got something from you it keeps the peace, like paid peace. wonder if the suggestion plants a seed at all? often it doesn't, let's be honest. some people are charitable and some people are greedy.
at church, they truly believe that you can reel in the greedy, like reeling in fish on a pole....i preach at the people at church to feed strays as well. water is free. can't even put fresh water outside daily? are you kidding me? how about left over food that would go in the garbage anyway. too much effort, huh? but criminal is worse, criminal acts against other living things is worse than total disregard -- but sometimes the two overlap. i enjoy pruning, but my hands hurt because i never use those muscles. looks nice though and still need to do more.
the new landscaper showed up. yay! he did a good job, but i still want to get a reel to reel mower for in between. i'm tired of relying on landscapers and a manual mower with NO MOTOR, that i can even use at night when its colder out would be perfect exercise. however, no one thinks it will work because only the front of the yard is flat and the side yard is a dune. only the sections of grass under the bay trees is green and the last quarter of that lawn, closest to the main road, is sand with patches of weed really. lol. w says as soon as i hit a patch with no grass the manual mower won't go and k said the same thing. because the wheels move the blades? they had to have used SOMETHING to mow grass in 1940 when the house was built? w says they didn't have lawns. lawn is a new thing. a lot of people had dirt and just patches of weeds and flowers. whole other world 73 years ago.
had a bad storm last night and the animals were freaking out. never saw them act like that before. first stewie was crying BEFORE the storm started, i thought it odd, because stewie doesn't cry much. then during the storm, while i was sleeping, the two babies that hang out in the bathroom mostly and their mother who prefers the spare room under the bed all started crying/yowling reallll loud, two others joined them and came into the spare room and woke me up.
i guessed they wanted the windows closed, most of the year i leave windows open about 3 inches, it catches the ocean breezes. i closed the bath, spare room, and one bedroom windows and then they all quieted down and then i switched to go sleep in the main bedroom (i sleep in more than one room all the time).
i realized in the morning that lightening can COME INTO the house through an open window. smart cats. and i should have shut the sunroom windows as well, which i guess was what stewie was crying about? the whole thing was weird. haven't heard animals act like that since the hurricanes of 2004 (and they were correct then too. 3 hurricanes in a row. what a bad summer. scary.) the lightening was very close. i noticed that as well. we live 1/2 block from the intracoastal waterway and five blocks from the ocean. both would attract lightening. so that was the adventure.
went up north the next day to mellow out. j made lasagna (its stouffers. lol.) went to the marina to hang out. saw one of the biggs kids working up here and i think that is one of j's school classmates kids. omg! still adjusting to that because marina work is a real job. he's probably early 20's.
k called to let me know they cut off the cancer for a biopsy. he sounds exhausted. he wanted to know about pam, boy is he thinking negative. pam had irregular cells in '02 and never had it treated on purpose. she opted for pain killers if it got bad instead. she died in '08 i think it was. i could look it up on here actually. she chose to party too much for five years, instead of chemo. her mother had had the same cancer in the early 80's and did the chemo thing, which is hell, and she died five years later, after five years of misery. p didn't want to go through that.
i keep watching people kite-surfing and i would realllly love a year off to learn that and just do that and nothing else. lol.
i told the guy to keep it and feed stray cats and get them fixed rather than get into it with him. sometimes if you let someone think they got something from you it keeps the peace, like paid peace. wonder if the suggestion plants a seed at all? often it doesn't, let's be honest. some people are charitable and some people are greedy.
at church, they truly believe that you can reel in the greedy, like reeling in fish on a pole....i preach at the people at church to feed strays as well. water is free. can't even put fresh water outside daily? are you kidding me? how about left over food that would go in the garbage anyway. too much effort, huh? but criminal is worse, criminal acts against other living things is worse than total disregard -- but sometimes the two overlap. i enjoy pruning, but my hands hurt because i never use those muscles. looks nice though and still need to do more.
the new landscaper showed up. yay! he did a good job, but i still want to get a reel to reel mower for in between. i'm tired of relying on landscapers and a manual mower with NO MOTOR, that i can even use at night when its colder out would be perfect exercise. however, no one thinks it will work because only the front of the yard is flat and the side yard is a dune. only the sections of grass under the bay trees is green and the last quarter of that lawn, closest to the main road, is sand with patches of weed really. lol. w says as soon as i hit a patch with no grass the manual mower won't go and k said the same thing. because the wheels move the blades? they had to have used SOMETHING to mow grass in 1940 when the house was built? w says they didn't have lawns. lawn is a new thing. a lot of people had dirt and just patches of weeds and flowers. whole other world 73 years ago.
had a bad storm last night and the animals were freaking out. never saw them act like that before. first stewie was crying BEFORE the storm started, i thought it odd, because stewie doesn't cry much. then during the storm, while i was sleeping, the two babies that hang out in the bathroom mostly and their mother who prefers the spare room under the bed all started crying/yowling reallll loud, two others joined them and came into the spare room and woke me up.
i guessed they wanted the windows closed, most of the year i leave windows open about 3 inches, it catches the ocean breezes. i closed the bath, spare room, and one bedroom windows and then they all quieted down and then i switched to go sleep in the main bedroom (i sleep in more than one room all the time).
i realized in the morning that lightening can COME INTO the house through an open window. smart cats. and i should have shut the sunroom windows as well, which i guess was what stewie was crying about? the whole thing was weird. haven't heard animals act like that since the hurricanes of 2004 (and they were correct then too. 3 hurricanes in a row. what a bad summer. scary.) the lightening was very close. i noticed that as well. we live 1/2 block from the intracoastal waterway and five blocks from the ocean. both would attract lightening. so that was the adventure.
went up north the next day to mellow out. j made lasagna (its stouffers. lol.) went to the marina to hang out. saw one of the biggs kids working up here and i think that is one of j's school classmates kids. omg! still adjusting to that because marina work is a real job. he's probably early 20's.
k called to let me know they cut off the cancer for a biopsy. he sounds exhausted. he wanted to know about pam, boy is he thinking negative. pam had irregular cells in '02 and never had it treated on purpose. she opted for pain killers if it got bad instead. she died in '08 i think it was. i could look it up on here actually. she chose to party too much for five years, instead of chemo. her mother had had the same cancer in the early 80's and did the chemo thing, which is hell, and she died five years later, after five years of misery. p didn't want to go through that.
i keep watching people kite-surfing and i would realllly love a year off to learn that and just do that and nothing else. lol.
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My cat Sassy has always been afraid of storms. I have no idea why. She lived in FL for 2 yrs so she knows what storms are since she was a kitten. Even up here in NY she cries and stays in the hallway when it\'s storming. I wonder if the noise hurts their ears? Take care!
I think our animal friends know a lot more than we do about all kinds of things! I just caught up on your journals. Glad you are feeling better after the blood draw. Doctors can be vampires sometimes! LOL! Hope you\'re having a good Tuesday! *HUGS*
i think stewie sees the water coming in from the ground, as the sun room \"floods\" (the water comes up through the tiles) but its not that much. for a long time i thought it was from the ceiling but it isn\'t. i\'m just guessing on why the animal was moaning like that, fear of course, but not sure which thing. the only thing i noticed was closing the windows quieted them all down. animals are very smart. smarter than us i bet.