Spring!

[ivyblossom]

Gosh I love spring. Nice warm/cool breeze, sunshine, my cherry tree bursting out green bunches, and lily-of-the-valley (OMG) spiking up out of my mostly-clay, damp and moss-covered garden.

My Dearly Beloved (Jeremy) will be here on Tuesday, so I have some cleaning to do. The whole place. The bathrooms, the bedrooms, the laundry, the kitchen, and the carpets need serious vaccuming. And the kitty needs brushing. I finally returned the videos I got from the video store (a week late, oops).

I want to go across the street and look at herbs. Only my chives survived the winter, so I want to get some more thyme (my favourite!) parsley, and dill.

I'm hoping my Dearly Beloved will help me install a new little garden under my kitchen window, wherein I can grow some basil and tomatoes. And I need those bags of flowers I can hang from the fences too.

All this so my kitty can have a nice place to chill out as he is wont to do. Some people are uncomfortable with cats going outside. I know and love many of these people. I know lots of cats who can only look out the window or sit pushed up against an open screen.

Here's the thing: my cat does this thing where when I come home, he rolls around on his back and I rub his belly. This is how he demonstrates his happiness. I learned that this was sort of a unique reaction last year when he was staying with a friend of mine while I was sick, and he did the same thing when I came to visit. The only other time he does this display of joy and happiness is when he goes out side. He rolls around on the patio, in the dirt while looking out under the fence, all over the place. How can I disallow something that makes my cat has happy as that?

It's easy with my old guy (he's probably about 11 years old). Mostly he just sits on the patio, or on the garden wall, or goes over to the neighbour's place to check to see if the twin kitties (two twin white and spotted boys) are about. And then he curls up on a chair or a footstool on my patio and falls asleep. Not dangerous! Really!

Another plan for the day: take more pictures of my Horatio outside on the patio. These are all from last spring/summer; you see the cherry blossoms have fallen all over the ground in these.

Comments

[wanderer]

Lucky cat! kerri and I tried that with our cat when we lived in a less urban environment than east side Vancouver, but, while she obviously loved being outside, she also turned into a little monster and started attacking everyone she met, along with small animals and our other cat. When we moved to an apartment and had to keep her inside anyway, she went back to being sweet-natured and cuddly . . . very strange. So we've compromised for taking her out on a 20 foot leash and harness on summer days, and letting her roll around and play in the grass.

[ivyblossom]

OMG that's bizarre! She went a little feral, eh? I guess I'm the lucky one with my chilled-out dude.

[treehavn]

Princess Teacup! (Also, those vids must have cost you a bomb. We, uh, probably should have taken them back that morning we left, no?)