Author: kazbah33pics

Aunty M and her mother (and her sister and brother-in-law who are visiting from Turkiye) have almost finished moving to the new unit.
A big truck came and took all their stuff because there was too much to fit in people’s cars. It wouldn’t even fit in Ravi, and we know how big it’s boot is.

I haven’t been to the new unit but the Mummies say it is lovely. It gets a lovely breeze and there is a wonderful view to the north and out to the hinterland, and they can also see the ocean! M Kaz loved the way the afternoon sun lights up the nearby buildings.

Aunty M has had Mimi staying with Michelle (the cat minder) while they’ve been preparing for and making the move. It’s going to be quite different for Mimi – who has a touch of the ‘let’s go for a wander’ gene – to live in a 4th floor apartment rather than in a house with easy access to ‘outside’. Aunty M will have to take her downstairs and across the road to the park if she’s going to interact with the local wildlife. I think a pet backpack has been mentioned. Aunty M is also trying to work out how to make a safe enclosure on the balcony for Mimi so she can wander out to see the scenery – without being in danger of falling off if she (Mimi) gets distracted if she starts chasing after a bird or something. I’m not sure that she will get to see dinosaurs on the 4th floor – unless they’re geckos. Hmmmmm.
I am still enjoying the llama cushion Outback although I knew even it couldn’t save me during the massive thunderstorm we had here last night. It sounded as though it was right in the back yard but M Kaz said it couldn’t have been that close because the lightning and the thunder weren’t happening at the same time. She did concede that it was very close though – which wasn’t much comfort to me as I ran up the hallway looking for a safe place to be. If those Mummies had had any sense, they would have as well. The power did go out here for a moment – just enough that M Kaz had to reset the internet and the television. And she only did that because M Sooz had just turned on the television to watch the news. Which reminds me – believe it or not, Midsomer Murders has still not reappeared on the television since the Mummies arrived home.
Never let it be said that M Kaz is not a problem solver. She came out this morning to get some clothes out of the dryer and sorted them, and then she went to clear out my litter tray. She didn’t have shoes on and she went ‘ouch ouch ouch’ (what a wimp!) when she walked on the concrete (she had been on the mats) and she was going to abandon the exercise until she put shoes on, but realised if she did the tray from the other side, she could stand on the mat while she did it. It was good that she’d been up for a while and was fully awake or I fear she may not otherwise have been able to work that out. (Cheeky? Me?)
I’m counting down the days until the Mummies start putting up the Christmas decorations. It’s time! It’s time! I hope they’re going to put up my very own Christmas tree again (they never did find the Santa that I pulled off it) – and they can put one up for them too. M Kaz says they are going to bring out the nativity set this year – and I really want them to start using the Christmas all-colours (well, maybe four) light-up globe. ET would love that too!

I’m not sure what that M Kaz has been doing, but it’s not transcribing my blog for me.  She seems to be doing ‘stuff’ but I’m not exactly sure what that is but I think part of it has been helping Aunty M with her move.  M Kaz and Ravi (and sometimes M Sooz) have been going off to Aunty M’s place, sometimes bringing stuff back here, sometimes taking it to Vinnies (the charity shop) or Lifeline (another charity place) or to the tip at Molendinar or Helensvale.  I think M  Kaz likes going to the tip (aka waste collection and recycling centre) because she’s talking about taking some of her and M Sooz’s leftover things there.

I’ve been doing quite well out of Aunty M’s move.  I scored Mimi’s cat tower which it looks like I’ll now be keeping, and last week M Kaz came home with a cushion with strange looking four-legged creatures with long necks on it – I think she said they were lamas – oh wait, I think that’s llama with a double l – not the other kind.  I’m not sure if Mimi will want this one back, but I am certainly enjoying looking after it for her.  It is very comfortable – although I did hear M Kaz pondering the other day about just how I am able to fit so comfortably on it. 

There’s still been no sign of KB (the snake) but I am a little worried that the Mummies might find it out the front again (or out the side or out the back where they are not expecting to see it).  M Kaz was sitting out in the sun in the front courtyard the other morning and I bravely kept an eye on things from my window seat (all right, bed) in her office. 

I don’t think the Mummies are going to move my tray back inside but they may have to move it somewhere else Outback if it keeps raining from the north.  While they were away in Toowoomba last weekend (yes, they deserted me again) the rain blew in and left a coating of damp clumping litter in my tray.  It wasn’t too bad but it’s certainly not something I want to get used to.

But I am used to being back on the table in my box (and the insert from the new coffee machine box) and I’m getting as much ‘on-table’ time as I can before Uncle Wayne comes back next week. 

What was that Mummy thinking?  Why did she put the air conditioning on and blast it straight at me?  I was just sitting here in my box on the table, minding my own business when I was blasted by this gust of freezing cold air.   I gave her the evil eye and she turned it off but she shouldn’t have done it at all.

I have been outside most of the day – it’s been a bit on the warm side but it’s quite cool Outback, especially up on my cat tower (previously Mimi’s).  M Kaz is going to see Mimi tomorrow – I think, unless she (Mimi) is homeless by then.  Aunty M is busy selling off furniture and other goodies (there’s a garage sale tomorrow) in preparation for the house settlement and I wasn’t sure how to take this but it seems Mimi has only two houses left.  She used to have more than I do – even though M Kaz keeps moving mine on.

There were fireworks out the back this evening (no, not Outback – further away).  I was a tiny bit scared and came inside – which is when I jumped up to my table box – and when M Kaz hit me with the cold blast from the air conditioner.   She enjoyed the fireworks though – especially because she had never previously seen an explosion that gave all the colours rather than just the one they normally do.  She said the fireworks looked as though they were at HarbourTown and that they had a searchlight there too.

It wasn’t until it had found a good place to hide that M Kaz told me about the dinosaur she’d seen inside.  There was a tiny one out near my litter tray as well, but I couldn’t get to that one at all.

I have taken to the high ground – for no particular reason except that I like it up here.  ‘Up here’ would be the top of Mimi’s cat tower.  I spent a lot of time up here while those Mothers were away and now that they’re back and I’ve given them enough attention, it’s time for me to get back up here.  I think they understand, especially now it’s getting warmer and it’s too hot to be in there on the bed with M Kaz, even at night.

Chris came to do the lawn the other day and it appears that he didn’t see KB (that would be the keelback snake) and even though the Mummies have been looking for him, they haven’t seen him either.  Hopefully he’ll come back at some point.  It will be interesting to see if the Mummies try to use the barbeque out there when they’re not sure where KB is hanging out.

It’s good the Mummies are starting to get through all the washing they brought back with them from their trip – and the bed linen and towel that Uncle Wayne was using.  It means there is somewhere else Outback for me to relax – there’s nothing as comfy as a freshly-folded sheet on a table.

It doesn’t take much to make some Mummies happy.  M Kaz is so excited because the frozen Pineapple Chunks  she loves are available at Aldi at the moment.  She’s so excited that she’s even considering going and getting a few more packets to put in the freezer in the garage to tide them over until they’re available again.  She’s going to have to get a few because the last time they were available (for a limited time only) was over a year ago;  it may even have been two.

I’m counting down the days (not in a good way) until those Mothers start watching ‘Midsomer Murders’ again.  I know they went there while they were away and we know they’ll want to see if they can see where they went – like to the miniature village.

Now that Uncle Wayne has gone, the door to our bedroom is being left open and I’ve slept in there a couple of times when it’s been cooler but not cool enough to be on M Kaz’s bed/legs.  And that’s a good thing too because she’s started getting up early in the morning to go ‘down to the water’;  yesterday she was up just after 4am and didn’t get home until after 7.  She’d had a walk, taken some photographs and then joined the other folk down at Pelicanos for a coffee.