Hodgepodging A Nice Country Walk

 We park the truck in the field drive

and

walk.

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1. Give us three rhyming words that say something about your Thanksgiving holiday (or your most recent holiday gathering if you didn't celebrate Thanksgiving). 

Our family celebrated Thanksgiving in mid October when the weather was beautiful.

Twenty-one, joyous fun, sun to sun.

On November 24, it was just Mr. C. and me.

Just us, no fuss, not a plus.

 October Thanksgiving

November Thanksgiving
Imagine how quiet it would have been,
had the cat family not been here!

2. When did you last say, 'the more the merrier'? Did you mean it?

I said 'the more the merrier' when telling someone to pass along the invitation to the Caroling hymn sing at our house  (December 16) to others. And yes, I meant it. The more voices singing, the better.

 Not many, but they made a huge and wonderful sound.

Brit's Pub, Minneapolis, December 2015

We hope to repeat this visit in a few weeks.

3. What's one piece of advice you'd give someone who is your same age?

Don't buy the headstone just yet.

4. You're ordering a veggie plate, what four veggies are on it?

Black olives, manzanilla pimento-stuffed olives, kalamata olives, castelvetrano olives

And now that I wrote that, I'm thinking they're actually fruit, aren't they.

So, we'll try again with the veggies:  Sweet potato, Carmen peppers, yellow onions, parsnips (and they're roasted with garlic).

5. Shop til you drop! Did you? Have you ever? Will you between now and Christmas?

I have never ever shopped til I dropped. I hate shopping. I really mean that. I do like to go to stores and wander around, however, seeing the people and pretty things. But I'll do my actual shopping online unless it's a pair of boots, which I have to try on. I rarely buy clothes, but if I'm wandering through a store, and an item speaks to me, I might buy it. I almost never go into a store hunting for an item. That is so frustrating.

Just browsing, thank you.

6. What's your favorite chair in your house, and why is it a favorite?

My favorite chair is the new sofa and loveseat that we are going to purchase after Christmas. We've already actually gone to the furniture stores and chosen the one we want. Not just because the other one is more than 25 years old and completely worn, mind you, but because we're feeling extravagant (well, actually because I need a comfortable piece of furniture to sit on). It will be a favorite because it's big enough and comfortable enough to double as an extra place to sleep (like during the middle of a movie).

Christmas Past

7. Share an early memory of faith, religion, or spirituality.

I have a few of these, remembering my mom praying with me when I was very young, on the back steps of our house. But I actually don't remember a time in my life when I didn't believe in God and didn't know he was there. When I was young, my perception of God was God, the Tooth Fairy Far Far Away, and my prayers were more 'God, please do...' When I was in my teens my perception of God was God, the Cosmic Killjoy, and my prayers were more, 'God, please don't...' The day finally came when my perception of God was God, the gracious, merciful, sovereign maker and ruler of Heaven and Earth and my prayers were more like, 'Be it unto me, according to thy will.'

 Sunrise, November 22

8. Insert your own random thought here. 

 Yesterday's walk 

I'm determined to get out and walk at least four days a week

during the winter, as long as there's no wind and it's not twenty below zero.

(maybe 10)

(maybe 5)

But it wasn't bad yesterday. Cudl Duds top and long johns, plus a rain hat over a warm cap, made it a nice warm(ish) walk. 


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Praise God, a sweet young woman answered my Craigslist ad for Audrey, the mama cat, and when I responded to her, I told her that we also had one kitten available if she were interested, that I was hoping to keep mama and one kitten together, but no pressure if she was not interested. She came to our house last night and she is such a natural with animals and I am confident that she is going to give both of them a wonderful home. Audrey and Fraidy could not have gone to a better home, I am sure. She loves animals and also has a couple kids who will tame that little Fraidy in no time.

I'm hoping that in a couple weeks' time we will be able to take down the gates and let the remaining two kittens (Yes, we're keeping Smokey and Tom Kitten) and we'll see how Tuppence deals with them. She should not get the same treatment from them as she did from the nursing mama cat.

This couldn't have ended better.  The cats are in pairs, rather than being split up, and all we need to do now is phone a vet and find out how soon we can get these kittens in to be neutered/spayed.

 The last pic of the little cat family.

Taken Tuesday evening.

 

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