My Mother

My sister posted a lovely blog about our mother. I really try to block out this week, not think about what happened 7 years ago, when she was taken from us. It still makes me cry. But I want to thank my sister for posting what she did. So to share with you what my sister did, I will just direct you to her blog. http://ryanandanjilleen.blogspot.com/ Thanks sis. I love you.

Mom, I love you. Miss you. Can't wait to see you.

Reactions to the dead rodent in my house......

I have had so many reactions to the squirel picture. I thought I should share them with everyone.

Some people thought it was a rat, or even a kitty cat.
Some people were sad, some were even glad
One thought it was funny and loves the idea of the killer cat that I have
Some people were sick, some people were shocked
Some people want me to stop.

Well I will stop talking about it.

Update: Poor little creatures outside my home.....

Not even five minutes later, when I had posted about the poor grasshopper, I heard Spike, meowing behind me. And this is what I found. I am sorry that it is so blurry. When I heard him come in, I got the camera ready, I have to admit, I let out a little yelp, and a jump at the same time. I didn't even stop to think to see if I had a clear picture. I just took it outside right after I took the picture.

Poor little squirel.

The delayed posting is because of work.

In the Life of a Poor Grasshopper.....

In recent years, this is what we think of when we say grasshoppers. I loved "A Bug's Life". Hopper, is a smart vicious little grasshopper. But this is not the type of grasshopper I am thinking of.......

Let me reintroduce you to my cat Spike, aka Old Man. In all the times I have had cats. I have been amazed at what they are like, their personalities etc... Like I said before, people didnt think Spike would be a good cat. Well they were wrong. But he is getting to be quite a little hunter.

Yes this is what you think it is. A grasshopper in the box. Yes I know, you probably have seen one of these before, so why the picture? In the background of the picture, are movies. That means, this was brought into my house. By Spike. I would have loved to get a picture of him bringing it in, but when he sees me watching he drops it and comes over to me looking very happy and proud of himself. "Look Mom, I can catch a grasshopper!"

So, Spike brings in the grasshopper, and then if the other cats are inside as well, they all sit and watch it. But if it moves to much, it gets bitten, and poked at. I rescue as many as I can. But I can't save every grasshopper out there. I pick them up carefully, and put them outside, and tell them to run or jump away as fast as they can, if they want to survive.

So poor little grasshoppers become either eaten or disabled around my home. Because if they don't die, then they only have one leg, and it is just a sad life.

Frustrations of the night.....

So I have a take home test, no big deal, I thought. I will type it up, send it in email. Since that is allowed, and be done. Well, I answered all the questions. I should have been in bed by 10, at the latest. But obviously if you are reading this, and you see the time it was posted you know that something went wong.

When I went to save it. It said it was saved. So I went to add it to an attachment to be done with it. I was stupid and I closed the word screen. There was no test. I searched high and low. I did finally find it. But alas, there were no answers. So I am totally confused to how this happened. It said it was saved, it went to the temporary file. Which I didn't even know existed. So now it is 12:20 and I am still awake, trying to answer the questions again. I spent at least an hour or more, looking for the test, with the answers.

So the moral of this story is, be sure you don't close down any screens that you think you might need, until you are done with what you are doing. Then you would have been asleep, a little past your bedtime, and not into the wee wee hours of the morning or if you look at it really really late at night.