February catch up

So February commenced and I received this amazing card from a scrapbooking friend Julie from the USA, she made it specifically for me.  Look it's Buster and Bo Bo.  She's even got Bo's distinctive light coloured stripe across her head.  Of course I cried bucket loads of tears.  Oh the kindness of people, a gesture like this means the world, I will treasure this card forever.

Then quite by accident during the month this happened...

We had still been keeping them apart then one day Mike accidentally opened a door,

Buster flew out, and they came face to face.

And they've been fine together ever since.

Buster continued to grow.  How quick do kittens grow !!!

   

Kittens aren't the only things that grow quickly.

Mr. Codan is now 1 year old!  How did that happen.

Flowers delivered to work for Valentines Day.    Everyone say ahhhhhh!  

Peace reigning supreme in the G House.

I did the 10km Bellarine Sunset Run, second year it's been run.

And oh just as much fun as the first year!

Again with a kick ass medal.

Beth and I ran together, soooooo much fun.

And at the end of the month Mike and I ran the Noorat to Terang.

Again V for Veterans.

I again protested, why not use R for Rock Star or S for Super Star.  Hmmmph.

Always one for a grand finish! 

 And lastly another gratuitous kitten photo for the month.

January catch up

So how to catch up on my blog being that we're already past half way in 2017.  How about a monthly catch up, it might be the easiest way.

So we finished 2016 on yet another loss in our lives when our beautiful Bo Bo girl passed away on New Years Eve.  We had started 2016 with the loss of Molly and ended 2016 with the loss of Bo Bo.  Then a few days into the year and this happened ...

We still hadn't had time to process the loss of Bo Bo and step-daughter number 2 turned up one evening after having driven 2 hours with this little bundle.  He and his siblings had been found in a car boot at the wreckers in the summer heat.  The call had gone out to find homes and ... well ... as much as we weren't ready, Mike has always said when a cat needs a home they will find you.  Looks like this little bundle had found us through my step-daughter.

It didn't take long for Mike to fall under his spell, I took a little longer.  We named him Buster Q.   He looks like a little Buster, don't you agree?  The vet placed him as about 6 weeks old, way too young to be without his mama cat, so Mike and I were surrogate parents and we had to bottle feed him the first week or so until he started chewing through the teets of the bottle.

       

And let's just say it took a LOT LONGER for poor Lucky to fall under his spell !

Oh boy we were in for some fun and games.

Lucky would get the whole crazy eyes and body shakes happening with Buster's tiny high pitched meow.  I think Lucky would have ripped his head off if he could.  If Lucky was out of the house, Buster could roam.  If Lucky was in the house we had to have one in one room, the other in another.  We halved the loungeroom with a wire fence, yes we got that desperate, until Buster learnt how to climb.


During the month Mike and I ran the Surf T Surf in Warrnambool.  I ran the 10km and Mike the 6km.  And we got to chat to the famous Steve Moneghetti, always a treat.  Feeling very proud running in our Aths Club shirts.

We dedicated our 16km total to Mike's Uncle Frank in Scotland

who is ill with cancer.  He was chuffed to wake up and see our photo on Facebook.

Although words of  "why run when you can drive missy" would ring in my ears.

In the meantime we had a very special visitor when Miss Aleyna came for a visit.  Already a month old and just as sweet as can be.  Grumpy was definitely under her spell.

  

During the month we could have both Lucky and Buster in the room together under a watchful eye and hand.  Still not able to have Buster roam around with Lucky on the loose.  Still some stressful times.

Stressful not just for us, but for Buster too - keeping a watch out for Lucky...

   

Mel and I had made it to the back page Sports section of the newspaper!

Woo hoo.  Always knew one day it would happen  ;-)  ha!

One might think we were running so far out in front with no other runners in sight.

Ummm, more like bringing up the rear!

And January saw Mike's veggie garden start to fruit, 

and soon we would be swimming in zucchini and tomatoes.

    

And that's a wrap for January!  

Dusting off the blog

Excuse me whilst I dust the cobwebs from this blog

It's time to start talking again.

No idea if there's still anyone out there listening!!

but here goes ...