Although my stomach isn't close to being all the way over the nastiness it's been thru over the past 4 days now, I'm still thrilled to be feeling well enough to be up and getting things accomplished instead of locked away in my bedroom barely able to get out of bed. Yessss, this is MUCH better.
Before the rains rolled in last night, Randy went out and cut the grass...
Jason rotated a bunch of laundry while I was sick, and this is what I found yesterday morning ...
So I left it ... letting the kids fold, hang and put ALL of it away when they got home from school. And you'd think, with those 5 loads done, there wouldn't be too much left. NOPE. I do believe the kids had been hiding their clothes under beds, in closets, and who knows where else. They managed to use EVERY single towel we own our of the kitchen AND the linen closet. So in spite Jason's efforts to help me, there was still SO much left.
I am ecstatic to say that as of about 15 minutes ago, THIS is what my laundry area looks like... Empty Bins, only the stuff finished since the kids went to bed still waiting to be put away.
I KNOW I had ALL the laundry from the WHOLE house (before the bedtime change over.) So I was psyched to put that LAST load into the washer tonight. Then... I turned around to leave the room, and saw this...
SHOOT! Where did that all come from? Ahhhh /smack the forehead/ it's that darned cat that wants to be ours. You see, we have apparently gotten on the good side of an adorable black cat that we believe is a stray in the neighborhood. She looks JUST like Pez, a male cat we had back in 2001 till he left one day and never came home (but mysteriously within the next year, there were ALOT of new kittens that started showing up that looked an AWFUL lot like mini-Pez's.) We think a neighbor kept him inside long enough for him to consider THAT home.
Anyway, so this cat has white in the same places on the belly, but no white on her paws. She started showing up nearly 2 months ago, and is, without fail, always here when we all leave to go to school and work. Don't know where she goes, but she'll show up JUST in time to wait with me for the kids to get off the bus. She doesn't leave the general yard area until everyone has safely returned home. Our little protector. Over the last week, she'll show up out of who knows where, no matter WHAT time Jason gets home from work, to greet him and wrap around his legs in and out till he'll stop and cuddle her awhile. We believe she's here for him in a HUGE way. Cat's calm Jason tons and tons, and she's his little keeper.
Today, the weather is cold, and rainy and beautifully wintry. Great for me, not great for kitty. We had the sliding doors to the back deck open part way, and she heard us in the kitchen. Guess she wanted to come in because she went to the screen, dug in her claws, and pulled till it came out of the frame and she had a big enough hole she could fit thru. Craigan started yelling for us when he saw her doing this, but we didn't get there till she'd helped herself to coming in. I wouldn't let her stay in the house (we can't have pets, AND I have no idea what bugs she might be carrying. I'm not trying to be mean or heartless..she's a sweet cat.) The kids got a bunch of towels, put them in a box on the covered front porch, used a hand towel to cuddle her and dry her off -- so after she left, I got the extra laundry. Ya know what, it's really worth a few dirty towels to know she was cozy for a while. I get the feeling she's going to be very upset when we move. (or work her way into moving with us, hmm???)
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Darn it, I'll have to finish later... I wanted to keep these more interesting to us pictures whenever I can, but I can't find something I was looking for, and I'm not looking for it at 11 at night. So, I guess today's Great Day stories will have to be continued...
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