A few weeks ago, someone called me a bad cat Mom; it might have been Tessa, because I had just one heated cat bed on the window ledge. The other heated bed, plugged in and toasty, was in a cubbie on the shredded tower of love and that bed was rarely used. We only have 1 electrical outlet nearby. I thought that arrangement worked. If you haven’t noticed, everyone’s thought process is wrong.
So, after I moved things around and set up 2 heated cat beds on the window ledge, all was good. Quint was happy and most importantly, Tessa seemed happy.
Not more than 45 minutes later, they proved me wrong. Somedays, with Tessa cats, you just can’t win.
Wisely not wanting to be involved in any of this nonsense, Viola chooses to nap in a ball on Dad’s bed with her favorite toy nearby. And since she isn’t comfortable with anyone else’s business today, Tessa felt she needed to supervise that nap.
Not much is growing or blooming outside here at Colehaus but this past fall’s batch of discount Paperwhite bulbs flowered much better than we expected. Sometimes, discounted grocery store bulbs forgotten in some dark corner box are worth every penny. Mom says she thinks she paid $5.99 for 8 of these. Every bulb bloomed. That hardly ever happens.
We’ve had several deep freezes here so far but no snow (thankfully, Mom says). Unfortunately, we’re sorely lacking rain and snow in the mountains. Our area has less than fifty percent of the snow pack we need for this coming summer water use. Skiers on Mount Hood are skiing on and around rocks. Our development and surrounding neighborhoods are on well water and aren’t terribly affected by snow pack, good or bad. But we are conscious of our water use. It might be a bad year for water for everyone.
With that in mind, let’s enjoy some mossy photos. We might want to revisit these and reminisce in late August.
Daffodils are coming up! Most people don’t get too excited about daffodils but, as you might expect, Mom does. We used to have dozens of different daffodils around here but moles, voles, raccoons, age and an unchecked sprinkler repair guy put an end to 99% of those. Mom used to swear she’d replace them all some day. Then she thought maybe the daffodils were the reason for the mole problem. Or maybe the sprinkler repair guy problem. Who knows? Nothing’s been replaced. That’s all we can tell you.
The blueberries are starting to put out buds. Mom needs to get out there and trim off old wood growth this month if we’re to have a good blueberry crop this year. Did you know blueberry bushes can live 50 years or more? Growing blueberries is a lifelong commitment. It’ll be interesting to see if the one blueberry bush that was moved and mangled so much during our arbor build last spring will come back. We think it will.
We’re very happy to see our years of feeding birds seems to have rubbed off on a few neighbors. Here’s a neighbor’s suet feeder with a visiting scrub jay. On the other side of us, the neighbor has mounted an open seed tray on his new deck that attracts our local ringneck doves. Dad still enjoys watching wildlife flying around our yard and Mom enjoys thinking about the bird food costs being spread around instead of coming out of only our own pockets.
This is the last glimpse of Quint Mom sees before heading out the door and off to work at oh dark thirty each day. Is Quint seeing Mom off because he knows she won’t be home for 13 hours and will miss her? Or is he simply waiting for Mom’s prep for work commotion to end so he can snuggle back in bed with Dad and nap until whenever cats feel like getting up? Which likely is until a litter box calls, some food begs to be eaten and a drink from a kitchen faucet is needed. Then, very shortly after, sometime around noon-ish, 2nd nap begins.
Hurry up, Mom! Go to work!
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
2025 – No post 2024 – No post 2023 – No post 2022 – Watching Friday 2021 – No post 2020 – No post 2019 – Dad’s Around Too Much 2018 – No post 2017 – No post 2016 – No post 2015 – No post 2014 – No post 2013 – A Good-bye 2012 – No post
