Not sure it gets better than that!
Celebrating Summer's End and BRING ON THE FALL!
So ready for the change of Season...fall foods and baking...redecorating...sweaters and caramel apples with pecans.
Candles that smell like Cinnamon Sticky Buns or Coffee.
I'm there.
A late summer visit...then let the decorating begin!
Shelby and Sofi slowly settling into an easy accord with one another, now.
(...after Shelby made clear that she was the Alpha Cat...and Sofi only the auxiliary-back-up kitten...)
Sofi has enough energy for the both of us. "Boinging" through the house while Shel sits on my lap...somewhat bemused at this point.
She pulled an ET the other day climbing up in the lap of a huge Teddy Bear in my rocking chair and falling asleep.
And just when we thought we had lost her behind an appliance or something, she poked her head out.
"Here I am!" ~Sofi
"Oh damn." ~Shelby
She is having less accidents now...and "boings" her tiny cabbit butt directly to the litter-box after waking in the morning.
Progress.
(...and less wear and tear on me...)
We may survive her kittenhood after all.
"Speak for yourself...if she attacks my tail again, she's toast." ~Shelby
This week's book...a bubble-gum for your brain summer novel by Louise Miller
A decent end-of-summer read. Nothing heavy. Just a perfect something to sit on the patio and enjoy the cooling temperatures with the last frosty root-beer float before Autumn arrives.
A nice addition...a recipe in the end for Peggy's Burnt Sugar Maple Bundt Cake, which I am going to make.
This week's movie:
I don't know...maybe it's me.
Or maybe it's them...and the movie really did suck badly.
The gist of it is that beyond the bottom of the trench...exists another world..the real bottom of the ocean...and like the map always warns us
"Here there be MONSTERS"
From the opening scenes when the actors read their scripts instead of acting...to the bitter end which left The Meg wide open for a sequel as a Meg pup squirms from the destroyed body of its mother just before credits roll...the whole experience was pretty meh...
I certainly won't be bothering with the sequel. I could barely sit through the first.
By the middle to the end I found myself firmly rooting for the giant shark.
"Just kill them. Kill them all. Let's wrap this thing."
Not recommended.
Although all the Sharknadoes found an audience...so your experience may vary.
No accounting for taste.
Experienced an (albeit too short) return to Decorum and Taste on Saturday with
John MCCain's funeral.
Although he was a lifelong Republican and we rarely saw eye to eye on issues politically...John McCain was an honorable, patriotic man who often put Country over Politics. As well as being a decorated War Hero.
It was nice to see former Presidents Bush and Obama giving the eulogy (as he wished)
and a nice break from Trump who was asked to not attend.
Similarly the request was made at Barbara Bush's funeral and at Harry and Meghan's Royal wedding.
It was nice to see Class and Decorum return to our Capitol...
and it left me to ponder...how horrible a person do you have to be to be asked not to attend 2 funerals and a wedding?
Trump spent the day golfing.
(...how predictable...)
More anon...
