Shelagh (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ingaborg) wrote,@ 2009-07-03 10:14:00 |
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Rain rain don't go away...
We finally got the rain last night. It was lovely. Not thunderstorms and torrents, but nice steady rain. I went out at about 3am to see if I could work out what was making the annoying ping ping ping noise, and was a bit surprised to see no cat. I know cats are good at taking care of themselves but I was a little worried because he's so old and pathetic. So I wandered up and down the garden for a bit in nothing but sandals and a waterproof slung over my shoulders - so lovely after the heat wave! Eventually I saw a black and white shape in the hedge and realised Thomas was (quite sensibly) lurking under a bush. I tried to coax him out to grab him and drag him into the house, but while he kept mewing at high speed, he wouldn't come out. So I gave up and went back in, then turned around and there he was :)
Yesterday we had a smallish games evening where we sat in the garden and played mah jong. It was slightly marred by Thomas chasing a fledgeling blackbird around, to the great distress of the parents, but Gwen and Al did heroic work distracting Thomas and I was very happy this morning to see it taking trial flights around the garden accompanied by a watchful adult. Thomas is in and I've temporarily shut the catflap to give it a freer run. Nothing I can do about the younger and livelier cats of the neighbourhood, but maybe it will survive...ah! There it goes again. Flying low at just the height to attract a cat...and not too great about gaining altitude...sorry Thomas, you're staying inside this morning. It's still grey and damp so hopefully Thomas won't mind too much.
I've definitely got the mah jong bug! I would dearly love another game this weekend but I'm not sure we can tempt two volunteers around...any 2 people want to come play on Saturday evening? More welcome as usual but only 4 can play at once so we'd have to take turns.
We finally got the rain last night. It was lovely. Not thunderstorms and torrents, but nice steady rain. I went out at about 3am to see if I could work out what was making the annoying ping ping ping noise, and was a bit surprised to see no cat. I know cats are good at taking care of themselves but I was a little worried because he's so old and pathetic. So I wandered up and down the garden for a bit in nothing but sandals and a waterproof slung over my shoulders - so lovely after the heat wave! Eventually I saw a black and white shape in the hedge and realised Thomas was (quite sensibly) lurking under a bush. I tried to coax him out to grab him and drag him into the house, but while he kept mewing at high speed, he wouldn't come out. So I gave up and went back in, then turned around and there he was :)
Yesterday we had a smallish games evening where we sat in the garden and played mah jong. It was slightly marred by Thomas chasing a fledgeling blackbird around, to the great distress of the parents, but Gwen and Al did heroic work distracting Thomas and I was very happy this morning to see it taking trial flights around the garden accompanied by a watchful adult. Thomas is in and I've temporarily shut the catflap to give it a freer run. Nothing I can do about the younger and livelier cats of the neighbourhood, but maybe it will survive...ah! There it goes again. Flying low at just the height to attract a cat...and not too great about gaining altitude...sorry Thomas, you're staying inside this morning. It's still grey and damp so hopefully Thomas won't mind too much.
I've definitely got the mah jong bug! I would dearly love another game this weekend but I'm not sure we can tempt two volunteers around...any 2 people want to come play on Saturday evening? More welcome as usual but only 4 can play at once so we'd have to take turns.
