In the Service of Her Majesty The Queen

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

Sigh. The sky is full of clouds. No meteorite shower for me unless a miracle happens. And I haven't been seeing many of them lately.

I went to sleep late and my lovely wonderful cat woke me up at the ungodly hour of 7 am this morning. Nosing at me until he finally got me out of bed to feed him. At least he is a cat and not a dog...can't imagine waking up to a sloppy tongue all over my face. I don't want to imagine it. Yuck.


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

The Nightly Mission:

Crash hard tonight...
and don't forget to shut
the bedroom door first.

When you wake up, be
prepared for a miffed
cat to glare at you.

May the Lady smile
on me, and you too.

G'Night.

 

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

I saw somewhere else that you can still the Perseid meteor shower tonight but between the clouds and the live oaks, I still can't see the sky. So much for that.

Aside from the owl(s) and the turkeys, very few birds are around where I work. I wonder if the owls are responsible for that, too. I occasionally see a Cardinal pair and heard one singing at twilight tonight, but other that I can't recall seeing any other birds. Maybe that's why we have so many lizards.


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

The Nightly (abbreviated) Mission:

Sleep.
Wake up.

May the Lady smile
on me and you, too.

G'Night.

 

Hi Scryler
As a serious birder, I doubt that the owls are responsible for the "disappearance" of the birds where you work. Granted Owls will eat any bird they can catch, it's just that they are hunting at night, when most other birds are silently sleeping. Owls (with the exception of a few species that you don't get in the Hurricane zone ) hunt at night, by sound. If the birds have "vanished" from your area, I would suggest looking for feral cats in the neighborhood.
The Royal Canadian

 

And I, as a totally non-serious environmental engineer, would search for air pollution (or another negative anthropogenic influence), which had disrupted food chains...

 

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

I think the raccoons and opossums eat eggs don't they? And we have a lot of those...no predators that I know of, save the owls and hawks that probably get their young. And a lot of hawks fly by as well, and occasionally perch in one of the big trees. I don't think there are many cats.

Because of all the trees and the lack of nearby traffic, I think the air is about the best you could get in town.

I don't know about other types of pollutants. If the county sprays, I've never heard them. So they can't spray all that close. They spray where I live, and that didn't seem to affect all the mockingbirds that were nesting in the live oaks last year.

Except they aren't here this year. And they should be. There should be birds at work, too. It's an ideal place for birds, imo.


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

The Nightly Mission:

Sleep hard,
Wake up easy.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

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

Now that no one is taking up a lot of my time, I have decided to make use of Second Life to indulge my dreams. Sort of.

I've always wanted a round house, made of river rocks. So I'm building one on my 'island' on SL. It's taking me a long time, since I am not good with numbers and have to do most everything by trial and error. Lots of detail work. Which is exactly what I need.

I've always been able to focus intently when I want to...and this project forces me to focus. Nothing else...no errant thoughts that will take me somewhere painful...gets through.

Another one of my 'projects' is to finish building my temple. That's waiting on the house. And to make a mountain with a lake at it's foot...and big leafy trees all over the place. Oaks sheltering the house, fir and, if I can ever find a decent one, redwood trees around and on the mountain. It's not going to be a tropical island unlike most sims on SL, but a temperate forested island.

Along the lower coastal stretch of Oregon, there are redwood trees growing almost to the ocean. Very beautiful. The silence within the trees, the sound of waves crashing on the rocky shore in the distance, the filtered light, cool and moist, smelling of salt and redwood, all make me think of church when I am there. I haven't been there for a long time...but I can come close on SL.

So that's how I am spending my time. And trying not to think.


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

The Nightly Mission:

Sleep soundly. long and unbroken,
safe in night's hands.

Wake up and begin again.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

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

I got really angry last night, more than I can ever recall being before. Generally I process under the anger, at the fear and grief levels that tend to hide there. Was a heck of a big feeling kicking my butt to cause that much anger.

I was going to write about it, but an update that took forever put a stop to that. Probably a good thing. Words sometimes can't be called back and there was a whole lot of power that would have gone into them. Guess the Lady listens after all. Someone is very very lucky. Maybe just me. I tend to regret cursing people. Once I calm down.


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

The Nightly Mission:

Let go of anger
and get some sleep
tonight.

Wake up with no regret.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

Wait, what'd I do?? Or didn't do. Or say. Or didn't say?

Great. now I'm :nervous: and

Or was it something GA did? Yeah, bet it was GA.

 

Ahh, the Queen does have her moments. I imagine it goes with the territory, hmmm?

I haven't whacked anyone for some time now. Maybe that would make me feel better. Sublimation and all that.

So step right up!

Come and get it!

We can hash out who deserved what when the Queen feels better.

 

(Sighs and puts on crash helmet, then suddenly leaps head first out window.)

 

Hope you remembered to attach the bungie cord to your foot.

Or...are we merely talking about the living room window? On the first floor. In a house.

If that's the case, mayhap the Queen will jump right after you. I'm not quite suicidal enough to try the first option, bungie cord or no.

 

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

Night time again. Warm as can be out, too.

I have the front door open to air out the house, but I have to keep the a/c on for my diabetic cat with the Maine Coon fur that can't tolerate heat. Lovely place to have a cat like that. Cats release fur when they get excited, which means for my cat every time anything happens. He is getting better at letting me brush him though. Maybe now the rug will start looking like a person lives here instead of a cat.

He has huge feet, snowshoe feet, with tufts of hair growing down between his toes, the better to walk on snow. In Florida. Yeah. Lots of snow. His claws are proportionate. And he is fast. So unless I want to wear heavy leather gloves, up to my elbows no less, I have been very cautious about brushing him. He isn't mean. If anything, he goes to the other extreme. But he is ticklish. And his reflexes are faster than I am.

We have lots of fun when he is really shedding, in the spring. I get quite a bit of exercise, bending down to pick up the clumps of hair.

In order to give him his daily shot of insulin, I feed him on the table. So he is relatively still and situated correctly. When he is shedding, that's also when I try to cut out the mats he gets from not letting me brush him enough. I generally get about half of a clump done before the oh that tickles reflex overrides the gobble what's in front of me reflex.

He is an affectionate cat and would likely want me to pet him all day long, if I was willing. But he is not very trainable (and yes, cats are trainable, most cats). He is too large and too curious to be amenable to training.

Why do I bother with such a difficult cat? Because I have an obligation. I found him and his brother abandoned in the first snowfall, high on the side of a mountain where I was living at the time, hungry and close to death. His brother was in worse shape, having short hair. So I rescued them, brought them inside and tamed them. His brother never did tame down completely and is a true one person cat. Willie (yeah, that's right, Willie. Short for Sweet William...and such he was as a kitten and still is.) is the alpha cat.

Neither of them are outside cats, although when I lived by the ocean, all 3 of us went for long walks on the beach. That was before Willie became diabetic. It isn't fair to his brother, I suppose, but it wouldn't be fair to Willie either to let his brother go out when he can't.

I do love them, of course. That goes without saying.

So now you know more than you ever wanted to know about my cats. And probably not for the first time, either.


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

The Nightly Mission:

Sleep and try to clear the brain out.
Wake up and see if it worked.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

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

Today was Maniac Driver day.

There must be something that calls to maniac drivers and puts them all onto the road at the same time...some kind of siren call that they just can't resist. This time the Speed Maniacs were the target.

Either that, or it is contagious and only takes one.

Regardless, there were a lot of them on the road this evening.

Now I don't drive slow. But I definitely don't qualify as a maniac driver, either. Nor is my driving a source of irritation that triggers maniac driving in others. I think.

Rain rain rain today. My grass will grow a foot.


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

The Nightly Mission:

Ask for a peaceful mind
before trying to sleep.
Maybe it will work.

Wake up and see if it did.

May the Lady smile
on me and you too.

G'Night.

 

*grateful for the distraction caused by GA, quietly slips out the door*

 

Only to finds bars blocking the exit. When did those get put in?