There is a new kitty hanging out at the farm. She's a petite white kitty with a grey ringtail and splashes of dark grey on her ears, but her most striking trait is her eyes. The right eye is brilliant blue, the left one - under the biggest patch of grey - is yellow-green. She's beautiful, and friendly, and sweet, and loving. She has followed me around for two days now, where ever I roam on our property, although she doesn't like the long grass and she carefully picks her way through it. She came to us with a collar and a bell. I personally think a bell is the most undignified thing to do to a cat. It just screams 'coyote food'. She's obviously a housecat. She loves to be picked up and carried around. She is starved for love. She has fleas.
We have put up a sign at the corner store, so I hope we find her family. Another recent loiterer, Yellow Cat, is male and has taken quite an interest in her. I am quite sure he's very much unneutered, since he's a farm cat on the loose kind of character. I checked her over, and from what I can tell, she's not spayed, either. Dangit. We're going to have to do something about that if she's still hanging out waiting to be petted when we return home from Mexico. Just so that you can bask in her cuteness, I snapped a picture of her face when she tried to climb my leg the other day, check it out at the left there. I call her Scoop because she's pretty irresistable, and you just want to scoop her up and love on her when you meet her. Also, she seems like a small scoop of something sweet. So, Scoop.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The Wind Began to Switch
The house to pitch! A mighty wind has kicked up this evening on the Texas prairie! The long grass was wiggling and waving, the tree branches were being tossed about. This must be a cold front bringing more fall and winterlike weather... at least we'll be down to 70 degrees tomorrow, and 40 tomorrow night. Not exactly enough to make one shiver! But the wind is blowing tonight at 20 or 25 miles per hour. The weather service had this to say:
Gusty Winds Of 15 To 25 Mph Will Will Result In Extreme Fire Behavior As Vegetation Fuels Have Dried To The Point Of Becoming Cured For The Winter.
That's a fairly amusing away of putting it. I wonder if I'm cured for the winter?
Wind always makes things talk. Fences squeak, houses groan and whoosh, and trees tap and scrape buildings to make the most otherworldly noises. Last night the coyotes where whipped up in to a yapping, howling frenzy - tonight it is the wind's turn to howl.
I'm almost prepared for our trip, at work and at home. Tonight, by lucky chance, I ran into Bev at the fabric store and we picked out her very fabulous wedding dress fabric. I was just there to browse, very synchronistic. We found the perfect most dramatic stuff for her, and said our goodbyes. I'll see her on Friday night at her house in South Padre!
Gusty Winds Of 15 To 25 Mph Will Will Result In Extreme Fire Behavior As Vegetation Fuels Have Dried To The Point Of Becoming Cured For The Winter.
That's a fairly amusing away of putting it. I wonder if I'm cured for the winter?
Wind always makes things talk. Fences squeak, houses groan and whoosh, and trees tap and scrape buildings to make the most otherworldly noises. Last night the coyotes where whipped up in to a yapping, howling frenzy - tonight it is the wind's turn to howl.
I'm almost prepared for our trip, at work and at home. Tonight, by lucky chance, I ran into Bev at the fabric store and we picked out her very fabulous wedding dress fabric. I was just there to browse, very synchronistic. We found the perfect most dramatic stuff for her, and said our goodbyes. I'll see her on Friday night at her house in South Padre!
Freakwency
Ooof, I'm supposed to blogging more, and I haven't been. With the time shift, it seems so late all the time when I get home. I've been very busy babysitting, seeing MacBeth performed in the round (Bravo!), driving...
We did manage to visit Jonathan and Bev in South Padre Island, where we didn't get to spend enough time being beachy. The four of us spent a day in Mexico doing some paperwork for Charley, and having lunch with my Grandparents. We also had a day to spend just with my Grandparents, and we geeked out over postcards for most of the day and enjoyed all the delicious homestyle cooking at Chez Dittmer.
We're currently packing and preparing for a paddling trip down the Rio Guayalejo somwheres abouts Ciudad Mante and Valles, south of Ciudad Victoria at the tail end of Taumalipas (maybe even into San Louis Potosi, my favorite Mexican State?)We're travelling on Friday and I have a whole week off to enjoy life! There will be many pictures from that trip - hopefully even some butterflies! We won't be too far north of Gomez Farias, I think. I'm excited to put my fancy new PFD and gloves to use.
It has been dry here - as dry as it was wet this summer. The trees have dropped the majority of their leaves, with the pines and the live oaks the only hangers-on. The mesquites were slow to lose their greenery, too, but are mostly bare twiggy sculpures now. The grass that's allowed to grow is all waist-deep and golden, purple at the base. It waves and swishes around and adds to the warm feeling of desolate prairie I love so much. The landscape is stark and brown right now. There are a few flowers blooming in the yard - a small brown-eyed susan, a patch of some other yellow flower shaped similarly. Spiders abound - especially jumping spiders. There are still some grasshoppers, and on warmer, humid nights, a few gekos still gather on the screen. It's been weeks since we've seen toads, and no butterflies lately. I know a little rain would liven things up. We had a cold snap, and now, unseasonably warm temps - almost record setters. Mexico will be warmer during the day, and about the same as here at night. I'm curious to see what kind of vegetation is blooming and green down there, but they likely have had more rainfall recently, although we'll be dry all week. It's been pretty boring here at the casa, and we haven't worked on the house much - we only got the utility trenches as far along as we needed to hook up the internet in the house and set up the new computer!
Charley's headed to China about Christmas time - with the holidays and stuff, I'm not sure we'll get the hot water in the kitchen hooked up until spring! But we're comfortable and functional for now. The house is feeling much more lived in these days.
We did manage to visit Jonathan and Bev in South Padre Island, where we didn't get to spend enough time being beachy. The four of us spent a day in Mexico doing some paperwork for Charley, and having lunch with my Grandparents. We also had a day to spend just with my Grandparents, and we geeked out over postcards for most of the day and enjoyed all the delicious homestyle cooking at Chez Dittmer.
We're currently packing and preparing for a paddling trip down the Rio Guayalejo somwheres abouts Ciudad Mante and Valles, south of Ciudad Victoria at the tail end of Taumalipas (maybe even into San Louis Potosi, my favorite Mexican State?)We're travelling on Friday and I have a whole week off to enjoy life! There will be many pictures from that trip - hopefully even some butterflies! We won't be too far north of Gomez Farias, I think. I'm excited to put my fancy new PFD and gloves to use.
It has been dry here - as dry as it was wet this summer. The trees have dropped the majority of their leaves, with the pines and the live oaks the only hangers-on. The mesquites were slow to lose their greenery, too, but are mostly bare twiggy sculpures now. The grass that's allowed to grow is all waist-deep and golden, purple at the base. It waves and swishes around and adds to the warm feeling of desolate prairie I love so much. The landscape is stark and brown right now. There are a few flowers blooming in the yard - a small brown-eyed susan, a patch of some other yellow flower shaped similarly. Spiders abound - especially jumping spiders. There are still some grasshoppers, and on warmer, humid nights, a few gekos still gather on the screen. It's been weeks since we've seen toads, and no butterflies lately. I know a little rain would liven things up. We had a cold snap, and now, unseasonably warm temps - almost record setters. Mexico will be warmer during the day, and about the same as here at night. I'm curious to see what kind of vegetation is blooming and green down there, but they likely have had more rainfall recently, although we'll be dry all week. It's been pretty boring here at the casa, and we haven't worked on the house much - we only got the utility trenches as far along as we needed to hook up the internet in the house and set up the new computer!
Charley's headed to China about Christmas time - with the holidays and stuff, I'm not sure we'll get the hot water in the kitchen hooked up until spring! But we're comfortable and functional for now. The house is feeling much more lived in these days.
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