I'm meeting my sister for coffee this morning --for the last time at the Almost–Palo Alto Café, and then I'm cleaning the house, in prep to go home tomorrow.
Cleaning will probably take me all day. I've kept on top of it okay, but cat hair has piled up under the bed for four months...
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Cleaning will probably take me all day. I've kept on top of it okay, but cat hair has piled up under the bed for four months...
George wants me to stay: he is pinning me flat ^ on the couch. He has gotten cuddlier and cuddlier. The other cat, Anna, has maintained the same level of polite distance.
Several Orphan Reds have moved house. I kept buying them throughout the first two Covid years, and I couldn't care for them all.
Twenty-six dolls are now thirteen.
They are excited to head out on adventures. I sold a few at the thrift store, each packaged with a Madeline book, but I prefer to give them away, even leaving some in Little Free Libraries.
Only one girlette regretted leaving home:
I took her back in with me.
Yesterday three young granddaughters were visiting the old neighbor next door. I dressed three dolls in their original clothes and offered them in a bag with the original Madeline book to the girls in their backyard.
The sisters took the bag and, with barely a murmured "thank you"--whoosh-- they disappeared with the dolls around the side of the house.
I take that as success.
The bag had air holes.
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I want to get rid of more stuff too, but meanwhile on Saturday I got a new old T-shirt at the thrift store: from the 1980s ASTEROIDS Atari arcade game--the kind in a standing box, where you shoot down asteroids. My gaming experience consists of playing Pac-Man at a drugstore one time in the 1980s; but I like Star Trek-era space pop culture.
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Oh, here comes sister--all for now!
Wow! Hard to believe that it has been 4 months already. I think you really enjoyed your time there.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely love the t-shirt. Showing my age but I remember that game. My then boyfriend used to play it when we went to Ollie's Trolley in Knoxville. That game had the most obnoxious music!! The version he played was actually a table version with the game built into a table so that you could sit and play it.
And Pong was the first one we used to play as well as a car racing one where the track changed every time you made it around. Alas those games only came in black and white with no fancy graphics!!!
Kirsten
Cats just know
ReplyDeleteWow, that time went by quickly! The orphans are shocked, i tell you1 SHOCKED!!But then the ones that live here only number 8 instead of twice that. I do love them and they all have such distinct personalities. At the moment, they are working on a mache wild ram of URUK. Not to discourage them , I will not mention that their mache is not much more than a glop of mash.
ReplyDeleteLOVE your new old t-Shirt.
KIRSTEN: That's cool you remember ASTEROIDS--I was surprised, but since then, two other people have said the same thing. Turns out it was in the Top Ten games of the 80s, so not so surprising, but still fun.
ReplyDeleteGZ: This cat sure does.
LINDA SUE: Eight orphans is manageable. Or thirteen. But twenty-six... I didn't even know all their names! Though I loved them all, oh yes, and felt a pang letting any move on.
They were EAGER though--adventure babies that they are.
Except Ivy Rose: She had been eager, but then I could tell from inside my bike bag that she'd changed her mind--luckily in time for me to take her out again.
I look forward to seeing any shareable wild rams. :)
FREX = FRESCA