Today was my monthly spinning date with my friend Suzette in Canby, so as I usually do, I stopped at Willamette Falls to take a photo. This morning the sun came out and shone behind me, making a lovely rainbow near the falls. It was like a blessing for a lovely spinning day with a wonderful friend!
I hesitate even posting a photo today because of the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, which just sickens me. At the same time, I don’t want the people who set up the bombs to have any power over my creativity, so I’m going to post the photo I took.
It’s tax day, among other things. I saw this guy along a country road near here, and he graciously let me take his photo to commemorate the day. He even gobbled at me several times… it was hilarious! He had a bevy of girls around him, too. Chickens, but girls nonetheless.
Nolemana and I drove home along a country road on our way home from visiting long-time friends. We saw something so perfect for my photo of the day that I turned around, drove back, and turned around again so that I could take the photo.
This old fire engine used to belong to the City of West Linn, Oregon. It looked pretty cool sitting out there. Fire engines today have really changed; not so the brave men and women who drive them and fight fires. I personally know two firemen, and really admire their bravery in the midst of extreme danger.
I knit this chemo hat and another one in the same pattern for two women whom I don’t know. They’re both going through chemo right now, and I wanted to knit a hat for each of them.
The pattern is called “Sisters”, named for the Three Sisters Mountains in Central Oregon. I chose this pattern because in a way, we’re all sisters, linked together. Also, because to me, mountains are strong, ikaika, and these women will need a lot of strength to get through what they’re going through.
This is the first hat that I finished. The second is like it, in blue.
Well, how kewt is this! Noelani jumped up into the chair where Keola was, and he began to lick her head. But check out the way he’s holding her, like he never wants to let go. I love this!! The two of them are best buddies; you’d think they’d been littermates.
I love seeing new lambs! This one was just born and lives around the corner from us. Just a few days old, it’s already grazing on the new spring grass with its mom. Ho da kewt!!
Da Gathering met at a friend’s house just down the road from me today. I love when we meet here because for one thing, my friend always welcomes us with open arms. But I also love it because she has chickens, and every time I drive up, the girls come running to meet me. I love their happy waddling, clucking to me as they come. I always try to have treats for them.
Today I looked out the window, and through the lovely magnolia tree blossoms, saw two of the girls poking around in the lawn. It was such a pretty picture that it had to be my photo of the day.
Well, AFK was totally right! We definitely need another kitty bed. Today for the first time, Keola got into the newest bed, and poor Kalakoa was forced to sleep on the cold wood.
I will be heading to PetCo very soon. After all, kittehs rule!
Just found out that it’s not okay to relocate them. So we will stop immediately and get feeders that they can’t get into.
The squirrels have been getting into my bird feeders, the little varmints. Not okay. Bird seed and suet are too darn expensive to feed them, and they also chew up the feeders. Definitely not okay.
I know that lots of people think they’re cute and have all this amazing agility (the agility part is true), but I don’t want them here. Therefore, Nolemana sets out a humane trap, with peanut butter on the trip lever. We have caught a few squirrels this way and we release them somewhere else in a treed area where they can go bother each other. We try hard to get babies on their own or grown ones before baby squirrel season arrives. We’re not mean enough to deprive babies of their mothers.
For awhile, we are freed from the squirrels’ thievery, but of course, nature abhors a vacuum, and in a month or two, we have to go through the routine all over again. But right now we’re in the middle of a catch and release phase, and today I took this little trickster’s photo. Just don’t tell me he’s cute. He’s really nothing but a thief.
We used to only have one kitty bed underneath my desk. And it ended up being musical cat bed all the time. The kitties weren’t happy with just one because obviously, there wasn’t room for both of them in one.
So I found another one, on sale, at PetCo. It took a couple of days for it to pass the kitty inspection test, which consisted of seeing how it worked for sharpening claws and multiple tests for softness. But finally, they decided that it would do.
Notice that larger Noelani took the smaller bed. And Kalakoa the larger one.
There’s only one problem.
We have three kitties.
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