Thursday Things

It looks as if we are having a mini Indian Summer after all.  Not that it is hot, but warm enough to have the doors and windows open and the sun does often break through although, most of the time, it is hazy and behind cloud.

All our summer tubs have been emptied out now.  The Geraniums which normally do so well were ruined by the continual rain that we had and were looking so awful that we decided they had to go, along with the hanging baskets.  I think it is the baskets we miss the most because they were the first thing that caught your eye outside the window in the lounge and I had a beautiful one showing at the bedroom window.

Normally we would buy winter pansies or some other winter flowering plants to replace them but with the ever growing cost of food, gas, electric and fuel, that is an expense and a pleasure we will have to forego this year.  The Government did announce plans to help people with insulating their homes but that is of no benefit to us.  We already have our loft fully insulated as are our cavity walls.  We have double-glazing and we use low energy light bulbs in all the fitments that will take them.  So, no help for us then.  It is a real struggle now getting from one month's end to the next but there are thousands in our situation and some much worse.

We can only pray that we do not have a hard winter this year.  If we do then we will have to choose between heating and eating and because I have to have a healthy diet, we could end up sitting here in coats and gloves.  Ho hum.

We have made cutbacks where we can but the internet would be the very last thing to go.  Let us hope it never comes to that. 

Yesterday was a sad day for our family.  Becky and Dean's little cat, Kizzy, had to be put to sleep yesterday evening. Age and ill-health  just caught up with her.  She was sixteen and a half so was really in her 17th year.  They originally got her on the seventeenth of one month and she passed away on the seventeenth, yesterday.  They will miss her greatly.  Mike and I will miss her as well as we have known her since she was eight weeks old.  The boys are a bit too young to understand what has happened.

The fact that Kizzy was old does not really make a difference.  We get so attached to our pets, they really are one of the family and grief for their loss is just the same as any other grief.  Only time eases that but we never forget.

Becky has requested that I do not put a photo on my journal and I am respecting those wishes.  It is too raw right now as you can imagine.  However, our friend Sugar has added Kizzy to the J-Land Pets Memorial journal and, anyone wishing to, can see her there.   The link to the pet's memorial journal can be found on my sidebar under  Favourite Sites. Thank you Sugar.

I am glad you have enjoyed my last two postings of historical tales and I will try and come up with more in the future.  I was going to do another poll for the weekend but, right now, I just cannot come up with any ideas.  Suggestions welcome.

Well, I really do not have much else to say right now.  I hope you have all been having a good week and that life is being kind to you.

Love,