Sick, bored and a bit sad
What a stinking cold this is! Jack and Henry are sneezing a bit, Toby has a streaming nose, and I’m wearing Eau de Vicks Vaporub so I can breathe.
Things have been pretty quiet since I last blogged; we’ve been working in the mornings and collapsing in a heap in the afternoons. Barney and George were supposed to have a swimming lesson at 3 today, but I phoned the instructor to see if he could take them later, and he’d a 6pm cancellation, so they’re going then instead - that means Scratchy can take them and I don’t have to leave the house. The timing works quite well, really, because Scratchy and Henry will be at basketball from 6.15.
A woman came to the door today to ask if we had a cat; my heart sank because we lost a cat to traffic in 2004, but this time it turned out not to be one of ours (I say “one of ours” because in theory we’ve got two, but one of them hasn’t been back in weeks - we’ve seen her, so we know she’s around, and she’s getting fat, so someone’s feeding her). The one that was found today was lying on grass at the front of our neighbour’s house. I didn’t recognise it, and Barney initially thought he did, but when he went to take a closer look he realised he didn’t. I sent him for another neighbour; she knows all the neighbourhood animals (and feeds most of them) and she’s also a nurse so would be far better able to tell if the animal was still alive or not. It was still warm but definitely dead, and she did know whose it was, so she and Barney put it in a bag and set it under some bushes and we all agreed to watch for the owners arriving home. Barney volunteered to help her with the poor thing’s body; I wouldn’t have wanted to, but he was just fine about it.
I also found out today that one of our neighbours is selling their house; their son plays with George and Freddy quite a bit, so they’ll miss him. They’re nice people, I’ll be sorry to see them go.
Going back to my blanket on the sofa now…
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