Same window as yesterday’s picture, but this time it is from the inside instead of the outside.
When I look at this picture it makes me think about how my house is a little bit crooked. No seam is straight; no blind perfect. I grew up in a perfect home. My Mom stayed at home full time and one of her greatest joys was the beautification and perfection of our home. She did an incredible job of decorating and cleaning and making sure that everything had a place. Working in business my whole adult life, I never seem to get the time for domestic perfection. On top of long work days once I added kids and multiple animals, I found that domestic bliss for me was getting the laundry done one night a week, feeding the humans something reasonably healthy a few times a day, and cleaning up litter pans, guinea pig cages, and, the usual cat barf on the rug. (Did I mention we had one well-behaved poodle when I was growing up, Louie, who was taught to never go into the living room (so no hair or mud on anything) – and who never barked or did anything disgusting in the house). Here at the zoo we live with many humans and currently 6 furballs. Mud, fur, chewed blinds, and an accumulation of dog and cat toys, litter my home. My mother, may she rest peacefully in heaven, would be appalled. I decided long ago that I was never going to be a domestic goddess instead I channel that energy into being an incredible Mom to humans and furbabies. All this emoting from a crooked string on the bottom of a mini-blind.
Have a wonderful Sunday!
This is part of the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. Thanks to Dachshund Nola and Sugar for hosting.
This picture makes me feel simultaneously peaceful and anxious. I love the calm swimming of the duck (or is it a black swan) on the pond, but then all those Koi make me anxious because they are so crammed in and they look hungry. How does it make you feel? – DogDaz
Oh Gosh! Mini Cooper just loves her brother, Nine (she is number 11). They are waiting for a skink to run by on the windowsill. This may look like a black a white picture but it isn’t – when you have a diluted torte and a gray and white Tom you get this effect. One of the girls took this on their iphone.
What left you wordless today?
This is a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Head over there and see what they are blogging about.
I know you weren’t thinking that Mini Cooper’s first birthday was any different than any other day at the zoo. She is always starting something, even on her special day. Nine is such a good boy because he always lets his little sister think she has won the wrestling match. I am sure he could destroy her if he cared to. Glad that he doesn’t. If you watch to the end you will see who the real instigator is…. can you guess?
What mischief did you get into today?
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Mr. Nine in his favorite spot.
DogDaz Zoo 