Well we should change the name of that song to rainy days and Sundays as we had a wonderful rainstorm yesterday! This shot was taken of La Jolla Cove late Sunday morning as I headed down there for breakfast at The Cottage, where else? and a little walk in the rain.
You must think that I am nuts enjoying the rain so much, but this is a semi-desert area and rainy days here are at times few and far between. Yes I could have taken in the raindrops from the comfort of my couch, but I headed to La Jolla as today was the Annual Holiday Open House along Girard Avenue with all of my favorite shops participating. They put their finest foot forward with decorations, treats, very tempting new must have merchandise and everybody was in a very festive mood. I have been going to the Open House faithfully now for at least 10 years or so and enjoy it every time.
I purchased a few cards, found a Christmas present or two that will be tucked away till Santa is ready to deliver and a cook book. I know you are saying, why are you buying a cook book when you don’t cook? I love to glance through the recipes and try to learn a thing or two, keep up on all the new ingredients and techniques… but it will probably be used as a gift for the holidays. I love buying cookbooks for gifts as I can live vicariously through the chef to be.
I came home to sunshine and a beautiful rainbow! As many times I have seen one, I have never been lucky enough to get it on film. To me it is always a marvel of nature.
AlleyCat was being Miss Busy Body yesterday as normal. This large cermaic bowl, which is a modern creation of a Chinese Fish Bowl, holds their cat toys.
See like all kids, they have a toy box and when the mood strikes, they select something to play with. Some times they take out just one and other times several are selected and I will come home to find lots of toys about! Funny thing is they never pick up their toys, Mom has to do it for them. This time AlleyCat wants her banana…good catnip in this one.
The rest of the day was spent stitching on the couch with AlleyCat sleeping on my lap. I guess she was pretty tired after all that play. and until next time…keep on stitching
Just a note to Jack the Cat, the cat that was lost in the NYC airport for 2 months. He fought valiantly for his life but he passed over the Rainbow Bridge today to play with my Sneezy, Peanut and Felix. RIP Jack and I know you will be waiting for us…
Something has happened. Last night when I went to the vet to pick up Duchess, my elderly cat, these words came out of my mouth: “I want to adopt a black cat”. See what you’ve done Alley Cat? 🙂
What really surprised me was the nurse’s reaction as she told me that she has many black cats and that they are hard to adopt because people don;t want them because of superstition – how sad is that?
well did you and Duchess take one home? Alley is my 2nd black cat, Felix being the first. I am not sure if you consider the tuxedo cat a black cat?!
Oh Palma – if you can do it, get that kitty! The statistics of black animals in pounds and shelters are just awful – and this is world wide. Superstitions are very strange things, but in Colonial America the ship companies that brought settlers to America refused passage of black cats because of crew superstition – and the ports in the new country refused to unload the cats at the docks if they were black. We were a land of grey and yellow cats for a very long time.
oh thank you for your support. I don’t have the cat yet as I want to adopt an older one that needs not only TLC but also care and she is still under treatment there. Yes, I did say “she”. I wonder if I should call her Eastern Alley Cat, EAC for short :). That’s how I got Duchess (both of them) – their owners abandoned them when they became ill – and it was not because they didn’t have the financial means, they just didn;t want to be bothered and that angers me a lot. The first Duchess was diabetic and the current one is just plain old, some arthritis and her kidneys began to fail but she’s a happy kitty. It’s a fight to give her medicines twice a day but her madness at me ends with that magic sound of opening a can , lol – It never fails. I should get the cat either Friday or Saturday, that will give me the opportunity to be home when she arrives and meets the others. That will be interesting
sounds wonderful Palma! a new kitty…