Cats

 

I would like to introduce everyone to the furry-four-legged-poop-machines that live in my house with me... The orange one is Mel who I have taken to call "Orange" now a days and the fat one that she is sitting on is Monk who I now call "Fatty". I never thought that having cats would be such a wonderful pain in the ass at times though I love them to death I sometimes wish I could turn them into handbags! Fancy handbags for rich old women from the Bronx with to much time and money on their hands.

Monk just wants you to love him... all the time! In the morning when I wake up I tend to sit on the couch I am still asleep really the bone move cause the nerves tell them to but really I could still be half awake for at least another ten minutes if not more. Anyway, Monk always I mean always try to get in my lap or on my side or in face just purring away like he was drunk on just seeing me move again... I hate this! I am trying to wake up and the last thing I need is cat butt and god-know-when o'clock every morning. 

Mel is a ninja warrior princess and will attack anything smaller or slightly larger then herself and if she can she will eat it. Mel often attacks Monk who is twice her size but guess who almost always wins... Mel the smaller cat who I am sure Monk could just punt across the room if he wanted to but he just take it like a man... or an abused boyfriend. She also chirps like a bird which is cute at first but it will drive you crazy after a while especially at five in the morning when you're just trying to get some sleep. 

Cat...

Lentil Harvest

In May I planted some lentils just for kicks to see if anything would grow and guess what... Out of the 36 or so seeds that I planted about half of them grew to maturity and if I had pay more attention to the lentils and  watered them more often, maybe they wouldn't have died with the pods still growing and trying to mature. Sadly, some of the pods were dead or had crazy small lentils inside which is something I should have known but being away for six weeks does not help much when you're trying to grow some lentils in your backyard.

The lentil plants ready to be picked though they're

sadly half dead.

 

Orange wondering what I am doing.

De-podding lentils pods.

 

Orange helping me sort the lentils

               and trying to eat them...                         

 The finished product!

So I now have not even a fourth of a cup of lentils to do something with like make a soup though it's not enough to make a soup so I am probably going to just plant them in the spring and try to pay more attetion to them next summer. One day i'll grow enough lentils that I won't have buy them any more at the CO-OP.

Random need to start a blog

There really is no need for this blog... All ego and maybe a little soul but I have found that at times in my life, I feel the need to write even if my grammar is rather crap and words oddly placed. I have spent the better part of two hours trying to figure out what to write. Two hours of wandering around my head looking for something to write about and really not finding anything of substance then again who wants substance, just give me the fat and I will chew on it.

I am now home for the first time in three months and the house does not seem to be all the worse for wear beside the crazy amount of cat fur all over the place thanks to my quadruped roommates Fatty and Orange both of which are more then happy that I am home and slept on me for two hours on Sunday night. It's funny how I have finally seem to feel at home inside these four walls though I have own this house for two in a half years and it now feel like home. Hopefully, I'll be able to remodel it to look like it does in my head and less... well crap.