CRITTERS .........

We're dropping down in Central California.  Slowly but surely, the weather is cooling off.  Not that I'm complaining, but soon we will have a high of 65.  Time to finish up all those outdoor chores!

This is what it looks like every morning in my house.  This is rather subdued and quiet.  It's usually very LOUD and DEMANDING!  It's breakfast time and MOM, I'M HUNGRY!!  I may not have to cook for a MAN, but I certainly am at the disposal of Mr. Cooper.  If I waited, the rug would be completely rolled up.

This one is even worse when it comes to attention.  I thought cats were very independent nose-in-the-air critters.  Not so much THIS one.  She talks constantly and spends more time on this arm of the couch than anywhere in the house. 

See what I mean?  She doesn't care to sit in my lap, but she likes to be touching.  POOF!  Instant cat hair everywhere!  Summer isn't going to be fun, I can tell.

Though I got all dressed up to go OUT, it never happened,  I can't tell you how often that occurs.  Part of it is the Cooper-has-to-go-out constantly problem, and part of it is fuel costs at the moment.  Not that I can't afford it ..... I can ..... but my feet stick in the ground when they jump the price up to $6.79 a gallon the day they open up drilling on the California coast.  It SHOULD have gone DOWN, not UP.

Since I was out of Cooper food, I decided to cook for him instead.  Truly, I cook more for him than I ever do myself!  It's just boiled chicken ... his favorite.  He doesn't get a lot, just a sprinkling over his regular dog food.  If you think chicken is expensive, you should see the price on his DRY food.  Two years ago it went from $35 a bag to $65 a bag.  You would think it had fillet mignon in it!!  It's worth it however, not to have to go to the Dog Hospital with pancreatitis.  By the way, he's been fine since back on his regular food.

My plan was to get this quilt quilted, but as you can see, there's a little problem.  Apparently Miss Kitters the blimp decided this was a nice hammock to sleep in overnight.  It stretched the fabric considerably, so I had to remove the entire thing from the longarm and start over again.  Hopefully the fabric will go back to its original shape with a little misting of water.  

There was actually quite a bit of nice sun left in the afternoon, so I laid out for a bit.  It felt so good I almost fell asleep.  At least I will be able to wear shorts this summer and not blind folks when I walk by.  I admit it's not all that comfortable.  It takes a bit to get my back to bend when it's time to stand up.

I'm never alone, outside or inside.  Kitters is always looking for rubs of some sort.  This is her most favorite.  I have seen dogs love this treatment, but never a cat!  She would prefer this spa treatment continue for an hour, but since I'm spitting out kitty hair the entire time, it only goes on for about five minutes.  She absolutely LOVES it!

OH LOOK!!  Almost a full moon.  Just what I needed for the upcoming Bingo games.  March 31 is our next Bingo day, and April 1 will be a full moon.  This is NOT the sun setting ... it's the almost full moon in my back yard this morning at 4:30.  I think the moon rays are what's making the roses bloom like crazy!!

That was it ... a lazy sit around kind of day.  EXCEPT for one thing.  I caught Miss Kitters looking WAY too intently at something in the grass.  Sure enough ... a baby lizard.  I encouraged it to go to the grass roots and covered it with a heavy towel.  Literally five minutes later, the towel was bunched up and there was the tiny little guy laying on my living room floor.  Big sigh!!!

I scooped him up and took him to the front lawn to hide under a nice bush.  DARN CAT!!  Leave those lizards ALONE!!  At least she isn't eating them, but I really don't want dead lizards under my bed or hiding in the corners of my house!!!  I can hear Kitters laughing at me ............

Critters ... It's hard sometimes to live with them, but I can't live without them!!!