New Year

So here we are, all shiny and new. Wonder what this one will bring?

Minuses: I'm disabled, depressed, broke, in pain, and living in a board-and-care will where all the others are thirty to forty years my senior.

Pluses: I have good old friends and have made good new ones, I'm still able to get out to the library and church and to do volunteer work on my computer. I can read good books and have long conversations and feed a stray cat in the back yard.

I had the stray cat spayed and made friends with and found homes for her kittens.

So far I think the pluses have it.

Urban Wildlife

There was a squirrel on top of the gazebo this morning, right up at the tip. He had plucked an orange from the nearby tree and was busily eating until he lost his grip. The orange went bouncing down the roof and off into the void, with the squirrel racing after it and hanging onto the eaves watching it with an expression of "NOOOOOO!!" on his little face. Looked exactly like Scrat in the Ice Age movies.

Suburbia provides an assortment of fauna, including a feral cat that begs at the patio door at mealtime, a masochistic finch at the bathroom window, and even a 'possum.