The cat climbs the curtains so I need a cat tree
I absolutely loved pets and so we have a cat. I think cats are about the best pet that you can get. But I think it’s time to buy a cat tree.
Cats have to be a much better pet than a dog. I’m not a big fan of dogs, they’re big and noisy, smelly, eat too much and they bite. In fact I have to admit I’m a little
scared of dogs. I once saw a dog that attempted to attack me, and it was extremely scary. This was a friend’s dog, the dog near me very well, but when I came round to their place one day it obviously forgot who I was and tried to attack me.
Luckily I saw it coming and got out the gate and closed the gate before it arrived but it was one of the most scary experiences I’ve had.
A cat is a very clean animal. It’s not smelly, they don’t eat much and they’ll curl up on your lap at night in front of the TV. Cats are also extremely affectionate, though I suppose dogs are as well.
So we got a cat, a black one and called it Blackie. Blackie is beautiful cat but he has one annoying habit that is driving us nuts. He climbs just about everything. He’s climbed the back of the sofa, he’s climbed the curtains and he scratches the legs of our dining room table.
So I got on the Internet and did some research to find out what to do about this. It seems like this is a common problem for people who have cats and what I need is a cat tree, or at the least a cat scratching post.
A cat tree is something for the cat to climb instead of climbing my curtains. Apparently you can train them to climb on the cat tree, and once they like it that is where they will climb. I’m a little sceptical but because they aren’t very expensive I’ve decided to buy a cat tree and see how it works. (more…)
There’s a bay near me and we had a fantastic experience last weekend.
There’s a ship in the day that you just had to see to believe. It’s got 3 masts and it’s absolutely huge. At a guess I’d say it has to be 200 feet long.
It’s a square rigged ship. That means that it has booms on the masts and the sails hanging from the booms and blow out underneath them. I counted the booms and there’s 5 of them on each of the masts.
It is stacked with sails. It’s just got sails everywhere and it came up the bay with all of the sails up.
It was quite windy so it was going quite fast, you could see the waves coming off the bow. It just looked spectacular sailing along out in the bay all by itself.
I asked someone who was also watching it where it came from and they told me it came from Holland. It’s what is called a sail training ship and they take young people out sailing for a few weeks on the ship to give them experience of life on board an old ship.
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I really love nice days. Today is stunning. It is not too hot but there’s no wind and the birds are singing. It was beautiful this morning when I went cycling although it was very cold and my hands froze will stop
But whilst I’ve decided that it’s a great day you may not think so. Maybe you’ve decided that it’s a terrible day. Perhaps you’ve had something nasty happen to you today, maybe something terrible. Your day just isn’t working out so that’s how it’s going for you.
It’s all subjective isn’t it? To me it’s a great day, I cant see any reason why it isn’t a great day. But that’s just me isn’t it? For me it’s a great day but for you it may be terrible.
My point is that everything is totally subjective. What is a great day to me seems obvious. It couldn’t be anything but a good day, for me. But that’s only me. I love the day but if you don’t then its a terrible day.
Maybe you see terrible things in the day, all bad, all sad. The best day for me is the worst day for you.
Surely the only explanation is that it’s all in our minds, the day. We see the day through the filter of our own minds. We don’t see the day, we see what our minds tell us the day is like. We filter the day through our minds and our experience.
I even think it’s quite possible that if you and I have the exact same experience of the day we awill see it totally differently. You come for a drive with me and we see different things.
You see all the same cows, the same sunshine, the same people, but maybe you don’t even see them at all. Maybe you see something completely different to me. Your mind registers the same things as mine does, and records it, but it filters it all through the experiences you’ve had in the past and mine does that too, and that makes our experience of the day quite different.
Even if you have the same experiences as I do you may well see it totally differently, depending on how it is filtered by your mind. You might drive through the same countryside as me. You might see the sun, the cows, the kids, but your mind may not even register them. Your mind might just be seeing the downside to everything. And thats because your mind filters everything according to past experiences. (more…)
One of my friends asked me why I write this website. I write it for me, not for him, because I really enjoy it.
Isn’t writing a lot of fun? I love to write and I’ve done writing for a long time. And I still love to write now. I remember when I was younger and at primary school I wrote so many stories, I suspect my teacher got bored reading all of my stories. And he was amazed that I could write quite so much when I was so young. But I’m not sure that I’m any good at it, I just like it lots.
When I got older I did a degree in the Arts but never concentrated on writing, and now I wish I had now. If I had my time all over again I would take my time to study what I loved to do then and still love to do, and am doing.
It’s an interesting question about whether I could ever have become good enough at writing to make money from it. Who knows? But if I had the chance then I should have tried, after all if you don’t try then you never know if you can really do it. I should have tried.
I’m quite convinced writing is a skill that can be learned by anyone. Of course not everyone can learn it because there’s other important things too. I think it’s essential that you love to do it. That’s like everything. If you don’t love it you’re unlikely to keep at it long enough to learn the roght skill.
But if you love writing like I do then writing is just something that needs time to develope. It is a skill that you have to work on every single day. I work on it every day myself.
I have this website and this is where I’m going to practice my writing. I have it on the Internet as it’s a convenient place to have it, but I really don’t want lots of people to come along and read it. It’s just about me and what I do every day, so it’s probably pretty boring to anyone else. (more…)
Cows are just huge, you really don’t realize how big they are till you stand next to one.
I like my cows. Theyre so big yet they’re really gentle. In all the time I’ve had cows Ive never had a bad moment with them. They arent aggressive and they are even tame enough so that my kids can pat them a little, though they don’t like being patted too much, they tend to pull back a bit when you pat them. Just pull back a little thats all.
The very best time to pat them is when you feed them hay. They just love their hay, and when the grass growth is getting slow because winter is coming you need to supplement their feed with hay or something else. I have hay for my cows.
Now that means that youre committed to feeding your cows every single day. Once there’s no more feed in the field then they need hay each day without fail. So you can’t just go away for a few days and leave them or they starve. So you’re committed to feeding your cows.
I deal with that. I like my holidays so I’ve got to have a good way of going away without leaving the cows to starve. So this is what I do now.
I have a number of different fields fenced off. I have a total of 4 fields fenced off. And if I have lots of grass in some then I shut the gate so the grass doesn’t get eaten and keep it there, then when I go away I’ve got a great field with lots of grass. Ican open the gate and let the cows in there for a week or so and I’ve got my cows all fed while I’m away.
Theyre not allstupid. They know there’s grass in the next paddock. So once they see the gate open it takes them no time to get in there.
And then I come back from the holiday and my cows are happy. And I take them out of the grass field and put them back in the main paddock.
I feed them after breakfast. They know exactly when I will feed them and when I come out to feed they’re sitting right in front of the shed with the hay in it waiting for the breakfast. I usually give them about 1 1/2 bales of hay. Sometimes when I feel generous I give them 2 bales. (more…)
A boat is essential to life according to me. I couldn’t live without a boat.
I have a small boat, it’s not huge. Just a small aluminum boat, about 10 feet long. Its got its own trailer so I can tow it behind the car, I don’t need to put it on the roof.
I took my family away last weekend. It was school holidays so everyone had the extra time off. We decided that we didn’t want to stay at home for the whole holidays so we decided to get away for a few days. 5 days actually, (we cheated) which was nice. It was great though it was raining and there was a really a strong wind when we left, though that all went away after a few hours. And then the sun came out and it was really nice for us.
The resort was nice too. I chose it because it had lots of things for kids to do there. Kids always need to be busy, so if you go somewhere where there arent any kids facilities then you’ve got a big problem. Bored kids.
There really isn’t anything worse than bored kids to kill a holiday. They get really grumpy and annoy me and my wiffe and as I like to read a book it’s no fun being hassled by kids all the time.
But no problems this weekend, bored kids weren’t a problem. There were so many things for them to do, table tennis, a huge jumping thingy that they loved. A swimming pool that was outdoors and heated, and they love to swim.
And in the games room there was something that the kids liked too, a huge tv that had a kids movie showing every night so they just sat in there in the evenings.
And it’s amazing how something like a simple swimming pool can keep kids happy for hours and hours. I can swim for a little while then I get bored.
But I mentioned my boat. I took the boat along because there was a river there and I could take them on the river and the lake. And it’s useful for taking other stuff along too. The kids bikes wouldn’t fit in our car but no problem getting them in the boat.
So we ended up doing a few of days out in the boat. One along a local river, just puttering around looking at the nice scenery, a nice picnic on the bank of the river, some swimming for the kids, and a nice shady spot for us to sit after lunch and read our books.
And the local lake was really great too. Last summer I bought an inner tube and rope and towed the kids around with it so I brought it along this time and they loved it just as much. In fact it was difficult to get them off. They just wanted to spend the day there. (more…)
Where you live is such an important part of your life because where you live says a lot about you. Everyone has to choose where they live and everyone has to live with their choice. That’s my philosophy.
For me the country is the best place to live and I’m happy to say it even if you live in a city. Of course you may disagree with me.
And I love birds too, and one of the best things about living in the country is the birds. Out where I live there’s so many birds
Out here there are just so many different types of birds. Dozens and dozens of different types of birds. It must be because they like the trees around me because theres always birds and they sit in the branches of each of the trees and pick off the pods with their beaks and hold them in their feet and eat them one by one slowly .
I love birds but it is a shame to see them damage all my trees, and they do damage them breaking all the little bits off. If you look under the tree you can see all the tree lying there. Well not all of it but a lot, there’s broken tree all around.
Mainly they’re parrots. They are so colorful that I just love to sit and watch them sit in the trees. I even get them sitting around my balcony, sometimes if Im lucky I get them sitting right on the window sills. And theyre so colorful that I just sit still so I don’t scare them away at all and watch them.
There’s just so many benefits of having parrots around the house that you just have to put up with all the damage they do to your trees. I could just run out and shoo them away from the trees but I just put up with it because I want birds around.
That’s why I love the country where I live, things like parrots around. And other animals as well. You don’t get parrots in the city and that’s sad, there’s not enough trees and too many people there. Far too many people in fact. Nothing for the parrots to eat and people to scare them away.
And of course there’s lots of other animals too, not just birds. Animals are just as good to have around as birds are. They’re all great to have around.
Its good for the soul. Having birds and animals around is all a part of nature and a part of life. Its not sterile like it is in the city. Birds and animals for me any day. Just now as I was writing this a whole bunch of them flew right past my window. I can see one of them sitting on the veranda in front of me right now. (more…)
I’ve already told you how much I love my holidays, and I’ve had my holiday weekend now.
But it’s over now, the weekend is all finished. It was just fantastic to get away, I need to get away more often, it’s good for my soul. But it was a little tough starting quite so early. Too early for me I have to say.
It was really early, but I had something to get up for so it wasn’t so bad. But even so getting up when it’s still dark doesn’t do it for me at all. At that time of the morning it feels like it’s about midnight. There’s not even any birds singing.
But I got up anyway, headed over to my friends place and picked him up and off we went. There was quite a bit of gear to load up and the car was packed to the roof and it took quite a while to get going, longer than I expected and as we were meeting other people we had a time limit to keep to.
And what can you do about bad weather? Raining. And for the last few months it’s been so good, warm clear weather, just my luck that when I go away it’s raining. Really irritating.
We had to drive to the place where we were camping. It was raining all the time but by the time we got to stop and get out it had pretty much stopped raining. That was good as I don’t like putting my tent up in the rain, and everything gets wet trying to get it all into the tent.
And the speed limits were all lowered so that slowed us up. (more…)
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