Phoning it in on Sunday with Sheebie...

Friends and Kitties!

I had an idea all planned out to write about for today and then I got sidetracked window shopping on-line and wasted nearly three hours. Then I got all fretty and stuff about what would I entertain all y'all with and whilst I was in the bathroom (where you always get the best ideas) I remembered--I had all kind of cool random stuff on my phone!

Mothra!  

Anybody know what kind it is?  S/he was about 3 inches across.

Salem helping me put dishes away.

Yes, we have POTholders, heh heh.

Duct tape comes in sheets...how cool is that?

Felix, trying for some Positive Cattitude...

Sylvester guarding his bread wrapper.  And bread.

My stylin' new T.U.K. shoes...seven bucks!

A rainy view, driving to work Thursday afternoon.

The last thing is video I took Saturday morning.
Our Canary Palms are prolific date producers.  The flower blossoms are tiny, but there are hundreds of them, per bunch!  Two bunches opened overnight, and the bees were out in full force.  If you turn up the volume you can hear them hard at work.  They are very docile bees and paid no mind to me at all.

(The YouTube link is HERE)

It's hot and humid here again, believe it or not we're affected by Hurricane Isaac, too.  It pushed all the weather back West and the dry air we should be getting from the California desert is stalled.  Come on, Autumn!  I've been reading some really good books--check my Goodreads link later in the week, I should have it updated.  The Fall releases are coming out and I have several titles pre-ordered for my Kindle...now all I need is cooler weather to flake out on the Catio with a cat and a cuppa.


Happy Sunday, and have a Great Week!

XX  Sheebie  XX

Sunday with Sheebie

Kitties and Peeps!

I have the BEST news ever!  Here's a semi-bad cell phone picture:

Do you see?  DO YOU SEE???

It's an adjustable work station that I can stand up at!  Or sit down, if I so desire.  You might ask why this is such a big deal--it's because I am such a shorty that despite whatever chair I sit in at work I have to lean in at strange and unnatural angles to use the keyboard and see the monitors, which aggravates my lower back to no end.  I thought this day would never come...it's great.  I only work at this particular plant two days a week but we will be getting a similar setup at the other one too.  Hopefully soon.  I find that I move around a lot more, which should be good for extra chocolate consumption, right?  

We had glorious warm sunny spring days last week, and Friday Scott discovered a few hundred bees (really!) hanging out in one of our arborvitae bushes.  (They were very docile, not Africanized I don't think.)  

I asked a blogging pal--The Fabulous Knatolee--who keeps bees (as well as cats, dogs, and assorted over-amorous fowls)--about this and she thinks the bees are most likely collecting the sap on the arborvitae branches to take back to their hive.  This sounds reasonable to me, we always have tons of bees in our back yard but right now nothing much is blooming yet, so apparently they are foraging whatever they can find.  Scott and I are going to set up a bee-watch to see if we can discover where the hive is located.

Bees!

Hungry bees at the Hummer feeder.

Park news:  The surveyors were out and put stakes out for the earth movers.  No heavy machinery here yet...I will post a photo every Sunday so you can see the progress along with us.

The Porta Potty in the distance!

Stake-Out.

Poop Report:  Felix's innards have appeared to regulate themselves.  Do any of you give slippery elm to your cats?  How much and how often...and just plain how?  He loves petromalt but I hear that's not a good long term solution.  We free feed so I'd have to dose him separately, somehow.  Or is there something better?

Help me keep my trains on time!

To those of you who linked up with me on Goodreads, thank you so much!  It's fun to see what other people like to read, and hear their opinions on books that I like.  I synched Reader with Blogger, so all y'all should be "on the list", now.  It kills me not to be able to comment as much as I used to, I feel rude just reading.  Silly, I know, but there it is. 

Oh!  I almost forgot...I finally got my hair cut!  I've only been threatening to do it for about two months...I got three inches off and now its shoulder length again, perfect for pony-tail weather.  It's astounding how curly my white hair is.  Eventually I'll be a frizzy white-haired crazy cat lady.  Maybe I'll carry a cane, too--just for fun.  You know, to whack slow people in line, and such.  Whippersnappers.

Happy Sunday, and have a great week!

xx  Trish  xx

The Baby is a Beekeeper!

Kitties!

::Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz::

Mizzz Bumble Bee here.

Me and my zisters are very buzzzy thizzz time of year, manufacturing honey and ztoring pollen for the upcoming winter monthzzz.

It'zzz a good thing for our hive that this nizzze Mexzzzican Honeyzzzuckle is in bloom, we can make one lazzzt honey run.

I'm a thorough and efficient worker.

I go all the way down into each blozzzom, collecting nectar. 

But there are a few perilzzz... 

Namely the Feline Apiarizzzt! 

Zo I ztick to the flowerzzz higher up. 

I might have to waggle and danzzze out a Job Hazard Analyzzzizzz form when I get back to the hive. 

Thizzz Beekeeper izzz a little too...um..."Pawzzz On", if you know what I mean!

Back to work...

::BuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzBuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz::

Happy ThurzzzDay!

XX  Miss B. Bee  XX