Month: September 2024

Aunty Anja came today to keep me company while those Mummies went out. I am fairly sure they went out to breakfast because they smelled suspiciously like bacon, eggs, tomato, toast and coffee when they came back. I didn’t mind them going out because today – finally – they left it so I could go Outback while they were away. I think it was probably just that they forgot to close the back door before they went out, but I don’t care. I was able to be out there and that’s all that matters. The first thing M Kaz did when she arrived home though was to come out and check on me. Of course I was still there. Where else am I going to go?

M Kaz spent a fair amount of time in her office again today – and we all know she must have been busy doing things in there because she locked me out … again. I think she’s been doing secret trip business. There’s certainly been a bit of typing and a couple of telephone calls with the travel agent. I still think they think that I don’t know what’s going on. How could I not with the countdown happening on the whiteboard in the kitchen and the slight air of panic that surrounds M Kaz when she rubs out the number and puts another (lesser) one there.

The television has been on a fair bit today – and for once it’s not ‘Midsomer Murders’.  They didn’t even watch a full episode tonight – I wonder if it’s because they are getting close to the end and want to drag their viewing experience out as much as possible?  Or because M Sooz is starting to be more familiar with the episodes and remembers what’s going to happen in them?  Or both?  So, not Midsomer Murders. M Kaz was watching YouTube videos about the Galaxy Fold 6 and all its features, including the new AI it has on board, and about the Notion app.  I’m not sure either topic was as enthralling as she would have wished because it wasn’t even 9 o’clock before she was nodding off on the couch.  She fought it – of course – which is how she made it to 9.15.  It’s not surprising she gets a little tired because she’s now getting up before 5am so she’s sure to see the sunrise.

And she was busy today filling in the hole she’s made near the driveway but driving the ear through that patch of now not-grass.  Someone had kindly put a cone over it but we don’t know what it was about that cone because it just kept attracting dog droppings. “Maybe it’s a cat” someone ( who Should have known better) suggested but no, it was dogs because cats at least mind their own business and know to cover it over. The dogs and their owners had made no attempt to be responsible citizens.  So, after getting road base from Bunnings yesterday, M Kaz set out to “fix it” today!  She scraped out all the dog droppings that had been deposited there , even digging deeper into the hole to remove any tainted soil and then put the road base down, and topped it off with pavers.  M Kaz figures that will hold it until Uncle Wayne arrives in a couple of weeks and he can pop some concrete down.

When will they learn? Will they ever learn? I hope so, but just in case those Mummies don’t have it yet, I like to drink out of a cup or glass – not a dish. I appreciate this could cause issues in terms of me not being able to drink the whole glass – it’s nothing to do with the glass – it’s just that even though I have a very small head (compared to other parts of me according to those Mothers) I can only get it a little way in to the glass. Then I can’t drink from that one any more until the Mummies top it up again. Based on that, you would think those Mothers would have another one out for me – but they don’t. Not yet anyway.

I’m not sure what M Kaz is playing at but I was looking through her phone the other day and found a couple of photos that I am not at all happy with.  She has since told me that they are not real – they were generated by AI.  I admit I was a bit suspicious when I saw that cat’s eyes. 

Don’t let M Kaz hear this but that AI must be really intelligent if it managed to work out anything from her scribble!

Aunty M came around this evening and she and M Kaz were going to set up Aunty M’s old phone for her mother. There must be something about phones and mothers at the minute because M Kaz had a call from Uncle Wayne when Aunty M was here about setting up their mother’s new phone. It didn’t sound as though it was going well. That will be something for M Kaz to look at tomorrow.
Aunty M didn’t stay as long as they’d planned tonight because Syl and An’s Blue is unwell and she has gone with Ra, who is minding Blue and Tilly, to take Blue to the emergency vet to see if they can help him. It is worrying and hopefully he will be okay. 

Well, the cat is well and truly out of the bag.  Hmmm … Why do they say that?  Was the cat ever really ‘in’ the bag?  Certainly not this cat but when the time comes I do want to be “in the bag”.  How did all this come about?  I heard those Mummies on the phone today talking with the “bank” and letting them know where and when they were going.  They have to do that so they can make sure they can still use their accounts while they are “over there”.  I think it would be fair to say that they have fairly much been keeping me out of the loop on this one.  Just as well I’m keeping an ear out – which is probably how I find out most things around here.

M Kaz was busy yesterday.  She was going through the cupboard in the kitchen and putting things from there into a green garbage bag.  Without being asked, she told M Sooz that she was removing all the food that was out of date.  I know, I know, some people suggest that Use By and Best Before dates are by way of suggestion only but, as M Kaz noted, since some of the stuff in there had a Use By or Best Before date of some time in 2019, she didn’t think it was such a bad decision.

I had a chance to get in the dryer again tonight, which I took.  I’m glad M Kaz always checks before she turns the dryer on because I think it could be a bit rough and tumble in there – and a tad on the warm side.

Midsomer Murders continues.  The good news is that I heard M Kaz say that they only have about 11 episodes left.  ‘Before we start again’ said M Sooz.  I think M Kaz started quietly sobbing at that point.  And I can’t say I blame her.  I’m a bit sick of her seeing the first shot of an episode and saying things like ‘Walt’, ‘Helicopter’, ‘Robot’ and then waiting for them to appear.  They always do. It will be good when we find something else to watch.