Sustainability, Amazon, Goings-On
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helwenImpressive:
Living the Good Life -- an English village that's actually doing what was in a popular show of that name. They aren't completely self-sufficient of course, but pretty amazing nonetheless. And seems to have been good for community-building as well.
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Unimpressive:
Booksurge is failing to live up to Amazon's claims about book availability and delivery speed.
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- Managed to plant 5 strawberry plants yesterday, and the pennyroyal.
- Worked on moving things and cleaning up in the sugarhouse for Sunday -- still more to go.
- Was warm enough we could have a number of windows open, which both we and the baby squashes and pumpkins appreciated.
- L and I took the cats out for a leashed walk. Peredur is afraid of the outdoors but stayed out for a bit, meowing a lot. Roselynde mostly just turned and looked (much bigger open space than she's used to), but she did poke around a bit. I think she's going deaf, so that makes being outdoors more difficult for her, but until the farm cat came out to check things out, she was fine. Then, it was time to take the cats in before we had an incident. And please, no advice on how to get the cats to get along - at R's age, I'm not putting up with a younger, larger cat trying to beat up on her, and her trying to put him in his place.
- Bit of writing and also some correspondence.
- Played a new card game with SIL Susan, MIL Marian and L, called Phase 10.
- Worked on Ogham card some last night.
Living the Good Life -- an English village that's actually doing what was in a popular show of that name. They aren't completely self-sufficient of course, but pretty amazing nonetheless. And seems to have been good for community-building as well.
***
Unimpressive:
Booksurge is failing to live up to Amazon's claims about book availability and delivery speed.
***
- Managed to plant 5 strawberry plants yesterday, and the pennyroyal.
- Worked on moving things and cleaning up in the sugarhouse for Sunday -- still more to go.
- Was warm enough we could have a number of windows open, which both we and the baby squashes and pumpkins appreciated.
- L and I took the cats out for a leashed walk. Peredur is afraid of the outdoors but stayed out for a bit, meowing a lot. Roselynde mostly just turned and looked (much bigger open space than she's used to), but she did poke around a bit. I think she's going deaf, so that makes being outdoors more difficult for her, but until the farm cat came out to check things out, she was fine. Then, it was time to take the cats in before we had an incident. And please, no advice on how to get the cats to get along - at R's age, I'm not putting up with a younger, larger cat trying to beat up on her, and her trying to put him in his place.
- Bit of writing and also some correspondence.
- Played a new card game with SIL Susan, MIL Marian and L, called Phase 10.
- Worked on Ogham card some last night.
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Date: 2008-04-17 04:19 pm (UTC)Our Angel cat ("He's a pretty kitty. Is he a smart kitty? He's a very pretty kitty.") always wants to go outside, and immediately waits to be caught once he gets outside, but apparently hates leashes. I am evil enough to be willing to take him out on a leash anyway, just to stop him trying to escape...
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Date: 2008-04-18 04:43 pm (UTC)The halters need to be not too tight and not too loose -- we found this out the hard way, when Roz managed to get out of her harness the first time we took her out.
Cats don't like to be led, although I've had some success with walking over and standing in the direction I think Roz might be interested in. But since one place we had had a lot of bushes and she likes to sneak around, I had some trouble with keeping out from under places I couldn't follow. Here at the farm it's less of a problem, with all the open space around the house.
Peredur is agoraphobic -- he was found abandoned as a kitten under a porch. He's interested in the outdoors as long as it's framed by a window or door, and will complain a lot about being taken outside. But we're hoping to take him out from time to time and get him a little exercise and carefully supervised adventure.
Walking a cat is more like spending time wandering and sitting or wandering and then standing looking around for several minutes, at least when you have older cats. Younger cats or extremely active cats are a different story.
Still, you could try getting them used to the halter first, indoors, so that it isn't a completely strange experience. Might help.