Saturday

Big sigh of relief - I can post my pictures!!

This dear little lady who is 101, lives in a retirement home in landlocked Tennessee and all her life wanted to see the beach.  She was finally able to when she won a competition of wishes, and was taken down to the coast of Alabama.

Bless.  Her aides did help her out of the beach buggy so she could get her feet wet, but that picture didn't come out.  I don't know what part of Tennessee she came from, but the distance of Alabama north to south is 362 miles.    I didn't think there was much beach on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, but it stretches 32 miles.

Very heavy drenching rain all day outside, and have been reading.   I bought a thrift book, ie $1.99, about cat behaviour, which is very interesting.  It is by Desmond Morris, who I think most of you know.

Learned all sorts of things.   Apparently, cats are carnivores, which I guess I knew.  But what I didn't know was that a vegetarian diet can kill them.  And it tells us what happens to them if they eat a vegetarian diet, and it's not pretty, they die a pretty painful death.      Who knew!    I know proper cat food is best, which is what Bubbles gets, but I didn't know anything else was harmful.   My next door neighbour once had a job delivering pizzas, and her animals got the left-over pizzas.   I guess the cats must have been kept alive with the peperoni.

Also, that cats want a very quiet environment, they hate loud noises.  So THAT'S why next door's cats were beating a path to my front door.    Theirs is the noisiest house on the block with the barking dogs, and all the yelling.  She keeps yelling at them to shut up.   This place is pretty quiet, it is just as well for Bubbles I am not watching cops and robbers on television.  All she has to put up with is Fox News and the Food Network, and they're not loud.