Month: July 2024

What’s the easiest way to freak a Mummy out? Wait until it’s time for them to go to bed and go and sit by the glass door and peer out intently – and keep peering out as though you’re watching something – or someone. I know it works because I did it to M Kaz last night. She walked around the house, checking the doors were locked and that the outside sensor lights hadn’t been triggered. They hadn’t. Not long after she came back to bed (I didn’t go on the house-check with her) and we settled in for the night – although I swear M Kaz didn’t go straight to sleep. I wonder if she was trying to remember if she had the neighbours’ numbers handy in case she ever needed to phone them (like if the sensor lights had been on).

They were both out of the house early this morning – another health appointment for M Sooz. No surprises that they went out to breakfast after down at the Broadwater. Then they came home – and let me Outback so I could bask in the sunshine out there. I do love a good bask.
M Kaz went to the movies this afternoon and then came back and locked herself in the office doing paperwork or some such silliness. I fooled her though because now she’s almost finished decluttering the office, I can get through the other door to her. She was surprised when I jumped up on the desk beside her. I knew she’d thought she’d seen me go past on the floor – out of the corner of her eye – a bit before but she’d obviously decided it was just a glitch in the matrix. She was wrong.

I’m not sure why I’ve been running around “like a mad thing” in the evenings but it seems like I’m not alone. The Mummies were talking about it with Aunty M today while they were out at lunch and it seems Mimi has been doing the same. She doesn’t know either. Could it be the wind? Or that it’s a bit colder? Because it is.

I had M Kaz make a little nest for me under the covers last night so I could go to bed. M Kaz kept her legs outside the covers until she was sure I had “settled” and wasn’t likely to kiss and cuddle her legs – the way I did to M Sooz in the early hours of yesterday morning. When she screamed, M Kaz thought she had a cramp – but it was me. I’m sure M Sooz hadn’t meant to move … but she did. Skin was not broken, so I definitely deserve credit for that!

M Kaz has been busy decluttering today and she even managed to completely clear out the two baskets in the little white cupboard near the table. I wasn’t there when she did it – it was too cold not to be Outback today – but I only found out about it this evening when she pulled one of them out so I could jump in there. I’m not sure if she thought I’d like it in there or if she was trying to ” contain” me – because I was in “that mood” again.

I knew something was afoot when M Kaz was awake in the early hours of the morning again. This time it was 3 am and she was debating whether she would watch the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony live or wait and watch the replay later in the day. She was awake again an hour later, but I may have had something to do with that. I was hungry and we all know that I can’t feed myself. Well, actually that isn’t entirely true. There were cat crunchies in my bowl but I didn’t want to eat alone, so I asked M Kaz to come out and be with me. She did – for just a moment, before she went back to bed.

I ended up back there too and at some point M Sooz covered me up with my blanket (yes,the dinosaur blanket!). I didn’t before but I like sleeping under the covers now. I think it’s because it has been colder . And yes, I have been putting myself under the covers too. I don’t think M Kaz trusts me when I do that. I think she thinks that I am going to ambush her with kisses and cuddles to her legs. Would I do that?

hile the Mummies were watching the replay of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, I was Outback. I do love it out there and am thankful that Uncle Wayne built it for me – and that the Mummies know it is safe for me to be out (without them).

The Mummies move their legs around a bit during the night and sometimes M Kaz moves hers so much that she almost knocks me off the bottom of her bed. I usually jump off before she can actually do that but it sometimes doesn’t make for a restful night. Thank goodness I have my own bed. Hmmm, I wonder where Uncle Wayne will sleep when he’s here looking after me when the Mummies are off and about later in the year. Will he sleep in our bed or will he leave our bed for me and sleep in one of the Mummies’ beds? I do know that M Kaz has been giving his visit a lot of thought – which is why she has 200kg of cat litter on order from Katz-Loo. That should be enough to tide us over until they come back and can order some more.
It’s a pity the cat litter can’t keep us warm because it is still cold at Jannie and M Kaz heard on the news today that more cold weather is expected. Single digits was mentioned. M Kaz still hasn’t turned the reverse cycle air conditioning on – they just keep making sure they’re wearing puffer jackets and beanies, and M Sooz has a new pair of warm slippers to keep her feet warm. Nobody remembers it being this cold last year.

M Kaz has been cross about rubbish twice this week. The first one was on Tuesday morning when the rubbish bin wasn’t emptied. I thought it was a bit funny because when she noticed that the neighbour’s bin hadn’t been put out (K & S’s daughter is staying while they are overseas on holiday), she put it out for them – not wanting it not to be collected. So how funny was it when she came back later and found that their bin hadn’t been emptied. M Kaz was going to call the Council to ‘give them a serve’ but she checked their website first and realised the reason it hadn’t been collected was because they couldn’t reach it where she’d positioned it immediately behind S’s ute. She will know for next time that she can’t do that, and that it’s probably better not to put it immediately in front of a vehicle either.

The other time she was cross was because of the blue skip whch she has finally unfolded and started filling with things – old chairs, the door Uncle Wayne replaced, the old desk, a couple of office chairs – that type of thing. She hasn’t finished yet but she knew there was going to be some spare room in there so she told Margaret up the road that she could put some things in – but she thought she was going to do it thoughtfully rather than just dumping stuff in there. Now M Kaz is trying to decide whether she will get her to re-pack the skip properly or whether M Kaz will do it herself. I know which one I’m betting on.
The Mummies have been doing the washing again – and I love that because it gives me a very comfortable place to be while I’m enjoying the warmth of the Outback.