After six years, I haz a park!!!
So I jumped the gun a bit when, in my previous post, I wished everyone Happy Inauguration Day. That’s -=next=- week.
Oopsie.
In other news: Ursa’s still not home. I will be able to pick him up this evening around 6pm. I’ve got a few cans of soft food, one package of moist treats (because if the other two get their crunchy treats and Ursa gets nothing, Retaliation Will Ensue), and I’ve filled Ursa’s favorite toy mouse with fresh catnip. I’ve got a box set by the bed, so that he has an easier time getting up there. I’ve fluffed the fuzzy blanket and refolded it so that the fuzzier side - the side the cats love the most - is facing out. Ursa’s got a little “nest” up on the bed: pillow on on side, bunched-up fuzzy blanket edge on the other, heating pad at the bottom. He can choose where he wants to sprawl.
Yesterday morning, I went walking along the trail near my house, headed in the opposite direction. When I was originally househunting, I had looked at two condo complexes beside a certain lake. I knocked one out of the running because it barely had any lakefront access at all; and I wasn’t happy that I couldn’t walk *around* the lake; but the second complex stayed in the running of “possibles” until I found this place. When I moved here, I did not realize just how easily accessible that lake-ling was. The walking trail goes all along the eastern shore of that lake. There are several benches, and the ducks have a little beach. It’s not as large or as pretty as the lake near where I lived up in Canadia; but it’s close, it’s a lake with ducks, and I don’t have to drive to get there. After six years, I haz a park again!!! I’ve only been walking regularly for three days, and already my knees ache less and grind less when I’m climbing the stairs.
...and now, off to fetch the kitty.
