Every so often I have to release my brain and just write something wonderfully disorganized. Its a warm day here in the Northwest. Our summer so far as been wet/hot/dry/rainy/cold and not always in that exact order. I don't think this is going to be a long summer. It is already noteworthy for all the rain and cloudy days we have had - I know this sounds like whining, because, well, it is ! We have a window of only 2 months that can be warm and sunny. One of those months is already ending - August is a very quizzical month - it can be summer-like or it can start raining the 16 th. and we don't see the mountain for 6 months. No promises and absolutely no climatical certainty.
I bought myself
'Liberty:the story of the American revolution' this weekend and watched the entire 6 part documentary today.
Paid slightly less than this. Do shop, please! Very satisfactory. I want to research Abigail Adams' life and letters, now, after watching it - her relationship with her husband reminds me of mine with my own, dear Leon and I really enjoyed listening to the bits & pieces of their letters that were used in the documentary. It also reminded me of a off-Broadway play I saw when I was young - "
1776" - which is a really charmer of a show with some very touching moments.
I might just buy this video someday - it is one of the few musicals I actually like. Its amazing what our ancestors did to establish our freedoms and how amazing it was and still is that they founded a form of government that discourages hierarchy and balances our freedoms with our duties so very well. What a wonderful miracle the United States of America is and what a blessing in my own life. I thank God for his gift of freedom and my dear grandparents for choosing
Courage and moving to the USA.
I am still considering the second part of my explanation and description of our survival plans. I tend to bury a lot of information in an equal number of words and I am trying to put my ideas in some kind of order - its very challenging - there is so much to get through - I would love to help people get organized so they are safer when next they face some kind of disaster. It is difficult enough to face a crisis, even a small crisis like a power outage. It is so much easier when you have everything organized as we attempt to do - being organized does not mean you are not in trouble, it means that it won't be embarressing.
The kittens born in our neighborhood are growing - I can't seem to catch up with them, the mom cat is moving them about. One day, one yard, next day, the other yard.. I am not sure I am going to be able to save their little furry lives. I can't bring them into my family because of the Chlamydia that permanently infects this generation of cats. Our plan is to let this generation die out, clean our house, dispose of anything this generation used constantly and then bring in a new generation of kittens. I am a very soft-hearted person when it comes to kittens but I have grown to accept, in later life, that I cannot save every kitten's life - that the species survives even when death comes to so many of their perfect little bodies is my only comfort when I see kittens in need. I suspect that God gave us cats and dogs (and all other creatures.) to teach us how to love - for that is what cats have taught me.
I would hope that in some way, I can not imagine, cats have some sort of immortality too, because my cat friends far out number my human friends and I would miss them terribly if they did not greet me in eternity or in, at least, my next mortal life !
Explains what is wrong with my little cat family. There was a wealth of things to mention today - this is a link which will be welcomed by all Harry Potter fans. J. K. Rowling speaks of how lives of the main Characters developed after they mature and marry. Do not read it unless you have already read the final book - it will spoil several of the surprises !
So things DO turn out the way I would hope!!! I would like to go back in a few weeks and reread the novel. I read it so very fast the first time, I suspect I missed some of the nuance of the story.
