Ramblings

 A small piece of good news.  My missing garden flag turned up.  As I suspected, it was buried in the snow.  So when the temperature rose to 40°F and the snow began to melt, my flag turned up.

What else is buried under all that white stuff?  I guess we’ll find out … eventually. The TV meteorologist is saying we might get more snow next week. Or maybe we’ll get rain …and flooding.

Yes, that was me spreading ice melt on the driveway.  One fall on the driveway was one fall too many.

There’s a ginger cat living in my neighborhood, I’ve seen him on my Ring cameras, walking through my yard as if he owned the place.  I’ve posted some of the videos.  I thought he belonged to someone, but I was mistaken. One of my neighbors told me that “everyone” feeds the poor thing.  He’s certainly not starving.

But it’s cold outside.

Here is the most recent video.

He was crying at my door.  If I had known … 

Sigh.

There was a pond near my parents’ house where people used to dump unwanted cats.  Two of our family cats, Redford and Mr. Kitty, were dumped at the pond and found their way to our house.  Mr. Kitty was a kitten, and he found us in the summer.  Redford, however … a full grown tom, he was shivering in the snow when my sister rescued him, in 2011.

Here’s Redford

Mr. Kitty

And here’s Redford and Mr. Kitty

Those boys were a real pair. I still miss both of them.

Last night I heard sirens.  It sounded like fire engines.  Not surprising, we’re less than a mile from a fire station, and sound carries at night.  For some reason there have been a lot of house fires across Long Island this winter.  More than usual.  When you hear sirens you have to wonder ,,,

Today is “rearrange the office day”.  My home office doubles as my home gym, and it has become quite crowded lately. As a remote worker I had a lot of my employer’s computer equipment (two monitors, keyboard, docking station) in my home office.  All of that is going back to my employer’s  office, I don’t need it if I’m working from home only one day a week.  I have a portable monitor for my laptop, since I need two screens, and that will be sufficient.  So I’m going to rearrange the furniture, make more room for the treadmill etc.

No rest for the weary, right?

There’s always something going on around here.