Something looks different here ...

One day I might post something else here ... but Christmas could be here before then - LOL

... but in the meantime, I decorated this blog for Christmas, because Soozii told me to ;-)



and, yes, you too can ...


... have an annoying blinking and flashing animated gif on your blog ... I had one here too ... but I just came back now (the start of Febuary 08) and "undecorated" my blog (that red background was a bit too much!) and I also edited this post and removed the animated thingy, because it was driving me bats looking at it!

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Diesel, in the garden, a few weeks ago:

I think he was "helping" me take photos of some insect I had just found and put in the bush

Here he is, a few years ago (Feb2003), in almost the same bit of garden (within a few feet)

Another cute photo from Feb 2003

and another ...

and another ...

we found him asleep on the bed - he had just had a bath ...

... and his fur was all "crinkly"

anyway ... that is enough digging around in really old photos ...

Here is one I took this year ... but it was several weeks ago:

yes - he loves eating cauliflower!

... and pumpkin!

... that was a few weeks ago ... I threw some old seeds into the vegetable garden late last year, and up popped a couple of bean and pea plants, and several pumpkin plants ... and the pumpkin plants grew, and grew, and grew ... all over the vege patch and out over the lawn ... and Diesel thought they were wonderful - he would go outside and walk around sniffing amongst them and then come inside ... and we could tell what he had been doing from the weird smell - pumpkin leaves have a distinctive weird smell about them, which seems to 'stick' to his fur or something ... because it would take several hours before the fur on his head didn't smell funny any more!

Once the pumpkins started growing, he started chewing the little ones that fell off, and one day DD (dear daughter) and I went outside and found this pumpkin in the middle of the back lawn ... went over to look at it and Diesel came and dragged it over to where he likes to lie, and started eating it ... I think he may have been the one who picked it too ... LOL

For some odd reason, he always has liked eating vegetables ... he eats most "people food" ;-)

... but he does seem to really like cauliflower and broccoli and pumpkin etc ... and of all odd things - he really adores wasabi cashews! (yes - hot and spicey ... makes him drool but he keeps coming back for more - he ate a whole packet of them once!)

anyway ... I have other stuff I should be doing, rather than this ...

Spook

I wanted to "point" to a photo of Spook, because I found yet another person who has a cat who looks very much like her, and I realised that all I have on this blog is a photo of half of her (I posted a photo in the middle of last year - Diesel and Pixel were in the middle of the photo and Spook is sort of half in the corner ... LOL)

So ...

This is Spook:



... making friends with a table leg. (She was trying to rub herself on my leg, but I kept walking away to take a photo ;-)

The other 2 people who have cats who look very similar are The Crochet Dude (a picture of Cleo, one of his 2 cats, is here ) and this person http://sparklinglotusland.typepad.com/ (who has a picture of her cat, Celeste, here) - I just found the link to her site on www.inaminuteago.com/blog (the person who is running the TAST challenge I am doing all that stitching for ;-)

Anyway ...
I still have a load of washing to hang up on the line under the pergola, and I should have gone to bed about 3 or 4 hours ago - I have to get up in the morning and go and do some "UNdying" with a couple of other people from the Scquilters yahoogroup.
(we are going to mess around with cheap dark coloured fabric, and some bleach ... )

Are you sure that stick is big enough?

I was outside this evening, taking a couple of sunset photos and looking for the comet (I saw that a bit later when it got darker ;-) and Diesel found a stick in the yard, so he took it to the middle of the lawn (well it was a lawn, before it kind of died in the drought) and started chewing it ... maybe long sticks are more fun?
hmmm ... there is some yellow string behind him ... I think he stole that from me the other day.

Oh ... about that comet ... I did get one sort of half decent photo ... I am just about to go and put that on www.aykayem.blogspot.com

The Green Eye of the [not so] Little Yellow ... Dog

"There's a green wild eyed yellow idol dog
to the North of Kathmandu " in the pumpkin patch!





(apologies to J. Milton Hayes, who wrote this poem ;-)

The pumpkins seem to do well with a bit of water from the washing machine hose ... so many leaves that Diesel dog gets lost in there ...