What a morning! I was sleeping quite comforting in my bed and here I hear a shrill sound in my ear. I barely opened my eyes and here is Little Bits sitting next to me yelling at me to get her some food in her dish. Oh there are other food dishes and they have food in them as well. I told her that in an attempt to get more sleep. She wouldn't have it. So I threw off my nice warm comforter and got out of bed. By then she was in her favorite spot in my office on top of a box. I grabbed her and she pitched a fit and scratched me and put holes in my arm. I put her by one of the other bowls of food, but she wouldn't have that either. Her and I had a time of it this morning. She fled and hid somewhere in the house. The other outdoor cats were waiting on their breakfast too and I had to fill up the bucket that I have in the house with cat food that we store in a large metal trashcan outside.
I feed Frederick first because his dish is on the back deck and he needs to be eating before the other cats on the front deck....so he doesn't fight them. He is not fixed and we cannot even afford the discounted fee they have with Spay Today. My husband wants me to take him to the animal shelter but I cannot see him being stuck in a cage for months until someone adopts him. He has all his maleness and fights with my other male cat, Mikey...who has been fixed a long time ago.
I get all the cats fed and even fresh food in the dish that Little Bit's eats from. I make my coffee in between all that hustle and bustle. I get my first cup of that hot delicious wake me up further liquid. The creamer that I use to get my brain to work is Peppermint Mocha. It is true that Peppermint gets your brain started.
On my way to sit outside on my back deck and pet Frederick and I stand at the banister and look over and into the woods, when I hear a commotion going on in the woods. I look hard to see what it is and then I hear the noise. Turkeys! A few of them it sounds like. I try to see what they look like and how many there are, but alas I do not. They were running down the ravine line and through the woods behind my house. It only took a few minutes until I could hear them go down into the ravine in the back of my house, some 200+ feet to the small stream that divides the properties up and then silence. I know if is Autumn now and the calendar doesn't have to be when the official start is. Oh and the crows are back too! They come and sit and cackle in the trees in the beginning of fall and then again in the beginning of spring.
Meanwhile Duke has gotten up and I didn't hear him. Sometimes he is so quiet. I tell Frederick that I am going inside now and open the door and walk through to the living room to find a few turds on the floor. This is the third time in about a week and a half that he has had uncontrolled bowel movements. He is getting old and the last time that we took him to the vet she told us that we are just wanting to make him comfortable. Of course I cried there. That was about 4 months ago. We decided that it would be time to put him down when he couldn't take his walks anymore. That is going to be one sad day and I don't know how Charlie is going to react with that. Charlie and He are almost inseparable at times.
The Season is changing rapidly here. The trees are just about to change colors, but not just yet. We have a couple of day or maybe even a couple of weeks before the get their amber, orange and scarlet colors.
I wonder what kinds of events we will have this coming fall season.
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