Monday, a “day off”

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Yesterday I had a touch of the “work-place-crud” also known as the cold that just won’t stop hopping from co-worker to co-worker. Not terrible but it was ok to have no plans and just rest.

Today I got up bright and very early, went to the doctor and got myself all up to date on shots – ok, vaccinations – and prescriptions and lined up with a plan for other routine stuff. Both arms are a bit pricked but I’m ready to go, as they say.

Stopped and saw mom, had a little breakfast, a little coffee, she gave me some goodies (yeah mom chicken soup!)

Then home to bring cats to the vets but the cats… well let’s just say the cats had other plans on how they wanted to spend the day. Molly I got into the new easier to carry carrier against her better judgement and brought her out to the waiting warm car. Razzie vanished. I called to say I might be a few minutes late. By the time he reappeared there was no way he was going into any carrier old or new and so he re-vanished.

So don’t tell them, but they’re going to the vets a week from Friday. I’ll let them think they conned me… for now. That’s a first, in all the years I’ve hauled cats to vets so I guess it’s not so bad.

So thanks cats for giving me a bit more time at home today… sort of.

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Odd things to discover

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

…and rediscover. I’m reading along, trying to polish and edit my NaNoWriMo (yeah yeah – you’re asking – will she EVER finish???) when I read this:

“Yes that’s right. We were out taking some photos and measurements at Bryn Cader Faner and then we went down to Maen Llia in Brecknock. My parents, my brothers and I work together.”

I don’t remember off the top of my head what those two standing stones might be so I look them up (again, of course, since I had to look them up in the first place). The first is a circle of cairn stones, very crown-like. But the second, in the wiki article mentions a nearby stone Maen Madoc or Maen Madog. This makes my head snap up and I read on:

Though the stone is named after a Madoc, nothing is known of the Madoc referred to. The base of stone is surrounded by deeply embedded stones and this may mark the grave itself.

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Miss Molly and Miz Pritty

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

When I rolled in with people and cat food, Miz Pritty was waiting for me (after making me worry for two days). I went out and in fetching stuff from the car and nudging her out of the way on one side and Miss Molly out of the way on the other side of the door… and then…

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Mid-january

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

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Queen Mab

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men’s noses as they lies asleep;
Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs,
The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,
The traces of the smallest spider’s web,
The collars of the moonshine’s wat’ry beams,
Her whip of cricket’s bone; the lash of film;
Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid:
Her chariot is an empty hazelnut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers.
— Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

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