The garden in green

Posted on by Ian C.

Following on from the Blossom pictures, here’s a few more I took over the last couple of months, and finally get around to posting – pictures of our Gloucester garden, all beautifully green and growing with the regular rain and sun we’ve had so far this year 🙂

Front garden and rhododendrons (May 31):

Back garden and pond (June 27):

Our rose bush is quite unhappy this year, almost dead so we cut it back drastically in hopes of rejuvenating it – meanwhile, just one flower).

Bridgette, getting older, thinner, stiffer, but still seems happy:

Hot cat

Posted on by Ian C.

It’s been super hot today – around 90 (and the same again expected for the next few days) … From her normal winter behaviour of trying to keep rolled up and as warm as possible, Bridgette had to switch today to finding a way to keep cool; spreading out long and thin was her chosen technique!

Bridgette, stretched out to try and cool off

Of course, it might be better not to lay on a quilt, but she hasn’t figured that out yet!

Sadly she’s getting quite old now, very stiff (arthritic? if cats get it) and thin – but she still does eat most days, and seems to remain happy in her life (we think she’s around 15 now)

Bridgette keeps warm

Posted on by Ian C.

More and more these days, Bridgette needs to keep warm (she’s about 15 years old now). We have a heated cat bed that she sleeps in for much of the day, but she also searches for other heat sources – for example she’s figured that the hottest base board (radiator) in the house is at the bottom of the stairs (it happens to have two hot pipes running through it), and in the mornings she’ll often stand next to it with her head about as close as she can get!

But the best way to get warm is to sit in the sun – she spends much of any sunny winter morning on the corner of the bed in the guest room, where the sun shines in:

But if we’re home, she knows to ask us to open the front door so she can sit behind the glass storm door:

Eventually even she gets too hot and retreats to somewhere more shady – but this is one of her favourite places in the winter 🙂