In the Service of Her Majesty The Queen

Be sure to check for both cats BEFORE putting the turkey in the broiler.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night goes well.

Happy Thanksgiving! to those who celebrated it today.

I hope you all ate until you couldn't eat any more and then ate dessert.

Both cats are safe and as sound as can be.

Hope to hear what everyone had...especially the desserts...

And those of you who shop on black Friday, hope you survive it.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Take your full tummy
to bed and hope your
dreams are as sweet
as your desserts were.

Wake up to leftovers...yum!

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

Happy Thanksgiving to you too Scryler.

My fave desert was the pie ... gonna go get some more now that I'm thinking about it. :dribble:

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

Very busy at work tonight, so I am very late at getting to this.

Saw a toad hop out of my way when I opened the office door early this morning. First toad I have seen in quite some time. I don't know how long, actually.

The birds were singing as soon as the sky lightened up a bit this morning. Not many, but some.

Alex is well. Now I have to take Lexi in to the vet.

And I like pie, too.


To all who slept or still are this morning on this side of the earth,

The late late Nightly Mission:

Sleep with the rememberance of good food
and gratitude;

Wake up and get busy eating more leftovers.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too

G'Morning.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night goes well.

Lexi has some sort of an intestinal disturbance and the vet says to wait and see what happens. More or less.

Alex, meanwhile, is back to his old self and he and Lexi are playing guerilla warfare with each other. Sneak attacks, surprise attacks, ninja attacks. They both seem to enjoy it.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

When the night comes down
cold and close to the bone,
wear your socks to bed.

Wake up with sweaty feet.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night goes well.

A long holiday weekend. And now the serious shopping season begins. Normally I have mine all done by now. And I haven't even started this year. Sighs.

Lexi does not like pills, nor the act of pill-giving. I give her some canned cat food with gravy first, a few tidbits, then cover the pill with the gravy and stick it in her throat. Once I can get her mouth open, the gravy at least stops her from spitting it out. After 5 attempts w/o gravy that did not succeed. We'll see how long this tactic works.

I'm eating one of my favorite holiday pies...pumpkin of course.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Thinking about the things in your life that go well
and the things that don't as you get ready to fall
asleep might not be the best idea, but it is getting
close to New Year and the resolution list...

When you wake up, see if any insight has occurred
during the night.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

Ever try brushing a cat's teeth? :yikes:

 

I hope you had a good day and the night goes well.

Another successful pill down Lexi's throat, but boy it was a hassle. She fights like crazy. We'll see how it goes tonight.

Warm today. Spent the day doing housework and watching the cats play. At least, I hope they are playing. Makes me wonder, though, just what they do when I am away at work.

And, no...I have never tried to brush a cat's teeth. Why would I?


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:


Sleep...soundly.

Wake...widely.


May the Lady smile
at me and you too.

G'Night.

 

Dopey has gum problems. Vet recommended it instead of the professional cleaning.

I'll be going for the professional cleaning.

 

uhhhh, you're going to have a vet do your teeth?oke:

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

Hot today. The weatherman says it will be cold tomorrow and very cold (for here) Thursday.

Lexi is still fighting like mad when I give her the pill. And I know how to do it, too. She is scrappy. Alex has taken to mainly watching Lexi and batting her when she does her ninja attack. No overt aggression, but he sure likes to rub all over me. Marking me as his. Lexi doesn't pay any attention to it.

It was so funny last night. Lexi likes to sleep with her head in my palm. So last night I had both hands out from under the covers. She couldn't decide which one she wanted, went back and forth from one hand to the other, falling on her side with her head in one palm, getting up and going to the other one, repeat several times. She finally decided on my left hand and put both hind feet in the palm of my right hand. She had to stretch full length to do it. I laughed.

I finally ordered my Christmas presents for everyone and hope they get here on time. I'm really late this year. Normally get that done in October.


To all who will sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

The countdown to Christmas
begins. If you are having
trouble sleeping, try counting
Christmas trees. One a tree,
two a tree, three a tree, four...

Wake up the next morning and
look for fir needles on the floor...

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

I had a good day.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of the earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Sleep warm for it is cold outside
Dream sweet for life is sometimes bitter

Wake up and welcome the morning

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

I hope you had a good day and the night went well.

It's cold. I wore my socks to bed last night and I hate wearing socks to bed. I hardly ever wear socks out of bed. And although these socks are very thick and soft and feel halfway decent on your feet, I still do not like it.

And then after a couple of hours my feet get so hot that I wake up (if that is, I have gone to sleep in the first place) and practically scrape my ankles raw trying to claw them off with my big toes. And yet, with the slightest provocation, they work themselves off all by themselves. I am exaggerating of course, at least about the ankle scraping, but not by much.

I would be doing better to heat a big rock or a brick up in the oven and stick it down there at the foot of the bed, but I never remember to do that until the next day, when I am up and about and there isn't a need for hot rocks.

I probably ought to change that last sentence but I'm not going to. It stands...make what you want out of it.

I read somewhere that domestic cats have descended from two lines of wild cats, a desert cat that slept in burrows and a forest cat that frequented trees. Thus we have domestic cats that like to climb and those that prefer small dark places. Lexi is the latter. (This could also be due to living in a cage - a big cage - for the first 4 months of her life, I guess.) My other cats have been 'climbers.' Alex is too old now to do much of either.

Lexi is also a leaper. I would enter her in a contest, if there was such a thing for cats. She'd win. She leaped from the floor (albeit in a dead run) clear over the bed. Flying cats.


To all who sleep tonight on this side of he earth,

The Nightly Mission:

Flying cats do not bode
well for sleep. Avoid
them if you can.

Do try to enjoy the
morning cat-romping
around and about the
house while you drink
your coffee.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night. Or G'morning.
Which ever.

 

Several months, days or years ago you published a poem which featured a person standing on a shore trying to make a decision.
Any chance you could post it again?

 

I finally found that quote#
"Rising from the distant east, the Lady Selene (Moon), Titanian goddess, saw the girl [Medea the witch] wandering distraught, and in wicked glee said to herself: ‘So I am not the only one to go astray for love, I that burn for beautiful Endymion and seek him in the Latmian cave. How many times, when I was bent on love, have you disorbed me with your incantations, making the night moonless so that you might practise your beloved witchcraft undisturbed! And now you are as lovesick as myself. The little god of mischief has given you Iason, and many a heartache with him. Well, go your way; but clever as you are, steel yourself now to face a life of sighs and misery.’ So said Selene." - Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.55
[NB Hekate empowered witches to draw down the moon.]



APOLLONIUS RHODIUS was a Greek epic poet and scholar of the Library of
Alexandria who fourished in the C3rd BC. He was the author of a celebrated epic
entitled the Argonautica which described the journey of the Argonauts in their
quest for the Golden Fleece. The key episodes of the myth were sourced from
older poets such as Hesiod and Pindar