Monday’s Musings #1.

Good morning and Happy Monday to everyone! It’s a rainy morning here but that has made it smell so nice and fresh outside. It is cool though at 39F (4C) and that’s the highest the temp will be today. Not exactly something we would expect for May, not even this early in May. Our night temps should be warmer than that by now. Oh well, it is still so beautiful outside with all the birds chirping and singing so lively. The coffee is ready for everyone and Muffin is ready to greet all of you this morning. You might have noticed a slight name change this morning, my morning posts will be the same, but not called coffee posts for the summer.

A nice group of pinks beginning to grow.

Soon I will be starting my summer coffee times in parks and other places so I decided on an update for my morning posts. Each day will have a new name, which I have already been adding to the regular name. Monday Musings for today, Tuesday’s Tails (originally it was Tales, but a reader suggested Tails might be nice and I agreed because it fits well with all the critters around here, thanks Hilary), Wednesday’s Wanderings, Thursday’s Thoughts, and Fantastical Friday. Then on the weekend we have Saturday’s Solitude and Sunday’s Sunshine. I know, I’m a bit crazy, why all the names? Because I’m different, very different. There are so many birds out here this morning it’s amazing.

Delphiniums are growing well too.

But no bird pics today, instead I’m showing some of the greenery that is starting to show up, even though we haven’t had much warm weather, plants are growing, the grass is getting green and will likely really start growing good after this rain. But still no flowers yet. The daffodils are growing well but no flower buds yet. I hope they produce some this year, last year there was not even one flower even though other years they had dozens of flowers. I have to take a break and go shopping, so I’ll finish this when I get back. Well, that took a little longer than I thought. The birds are still very busy so I put more seeds out for them and peanuts for the squirrels and Skitter.

And the hollyhocks have also started growing.

So everyone is happy again. All the feeders were completely empty when I got back home and Jasper was eating the last peanut. I see the peanuts are gone already and the feeders are nearly empty once more. I try not to put out too many seeds at a time so that if the bear shows up he won’t find much if anything. But it means going out more often with seeds. I don’t mind that part though. There are now 7 male purple finches and 6 females. There could be more, but that’s what I have seen all at once. Well, I hope you all have a most wonderful day and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

©2021 Steve McLeod.

Muffin’s Mewsings #8.

Hi everyone, Muffin here again! Wow, it been two weeks since my last “Mewsings”, my human just keep forgetting. But 2 weeks not as bad as month like other time. And my human have so many bandages on feet it hard to find place to remind him. Oh well, I here now. Did I ever tell about time my human drop knife? I tell again just in case. Getting bad like my human, not remember things, that bad. Oh well. Anyway, he cutting something on counter and he throw knife in air. He say he drop knife. I say if he drop knife, why it go up? Drop means something go down, not up. Anyway, that day he not wear slippers, only have socks on feet. Ohhh, this not good. But knife land right beside foot, could not get closer, and it stick in floor!

I say I want red flowers and he give me this, guess it part red. He call it a germanymum or something like that.

My ears go straight up! I ask why he have such sharp knife when he know he drop things all the time. He say that it necessary to cut his food. My ears go straight up again. I tell him he need to take cooking lessons so he not need such sharp knife to cut food he cook. His food does get kinda tough sometimes. Good thing I got sharp teeth. Sometimes birds not even want to eat his food. Sigh. My poor human. But he real nice though, he always like to share his food with me. Like yesterday, he come into living room but forget fork for food, so he put plate of food on my scratching post. He do that a lot. My scratching post have big flat top on it, so plate fit nicely.

This another germanymum, least it red this time, I like these.

He come back and put fork on table beside chair. Why he not put plate on table you ask? Because too much stuff on table that shouldn’t be on table. It always like that. But I digress. See? I learn new word. Digress. Not know what it mean, but it sound good and I think I use it right. But I digress. hehehehe! So anyway, he pick up plate, then dump food on floor. Then he stand there holding plate and looking at food. What he think? Food going to jump back on plate by itself? I ask him why he not pick it up and put on plate. He look at me and say, it no good now, full of cat hair. My ears go straight up! What wrong with a little cat hair in food? He trying to say there something wrong with my fur? Ohhhhh, not nice! He say back of leg still sore today. It his fault for insulting me like that, not nice to do.

But anyway, there nice cauliflower, my favorite veggie, yum! And ham! Yum, yum! He just sit and watch me eat. Very strange behavior. My tummy so full after eating all that. There was rice too! Yum again! After I finish then he clean up the rest and put in garbage. Imagine waste all that food. Then he go and make French fries. Why you do that? Because he say he hungry. If he so hungry why he dump his plate of food on floor for me? Very strange behavior indeed. But he do lots of strange things. Like feeding all those chipmunks and squirrels, make them real fat, but does he ever catch them and bring them in for supper?

Not quite sure if this one red, not know how to pronounce this name, so I call it red daisy like sorta flower.

No, I could have fresh meat instead of that mush that come from can that he call ‘cat food’. Not know what it is, it just mush. So he get me some chunky meat cat food. The gravy good, but those chunky meat things I think they make from that cat mush and put glue in to hold together. It certainly not real meat. Taste terrible. The mush stuff is better. Especially at 3am. Best time to eat mush stuff. My human not agree. Very strange behavior. Oh well. I ask my human to let me use pretty flower pics, he have pretty flower pics on his post, I want them too. He say okay, and I not even have to bite, all I did was yawn. That all for today everyone, like my human always say, “have wonderful day and God bless”!

Muffin (as meowed to her human Steve)

©2021 Steve McLeod.