Perstance

Well I have my car back on a temporary loan, so to speak. I have to give it back when the computer my mechanic ordered comes in. In the meantime I can drive it and just ignore the check engine light that keeps coming on. They did install a couple of new parts so I was told it should run a little better then when I dropped it off. It still isn't 100% but is is better than nothing, I am really tired of being stuck at home.

A new day

My very first act this morning was to close my online group, Let's Chat. It was created in October 2018 to give members an opportunity to write. During its existence there have been some amazing posts. Some of the members consider it home, a place to shed the trappings of the everyday world and just- chill. I am happy I was able to create such a safe place. 

Everything is changing out there in the real world. It was time to call a halt to my online group and move on to something else.Not sure what that will be just yet, but I am sure something will pop up. Faith and intuition have always worked before.

Taking care of Ebony

 When my son came home I had to tell him that Ebony had died while he was camping. I feel it was no accident she took her last breath on his bedroom floor. My strong intuition told me he was the one who was supposed to bury her. I had selected a site that I felt was appropriate and he began digging a hole. After a few feet the ground was hard and he needed a pick to break up the dirt. When the hole was deep enough he put Ebony on the ground and began filling it up with dirt. When he was finished I asked him to place a large piece of lava on top so there would be no chance of her body being disturbed.

Later as I looked out my office window I spotted something in the sky and knew I had to take a picture. It required me to go outside because the camera didn't like the window. After the picture was developed I saw why I was supposed to take the picture. There was a very large image of a cat above the landscape,  looking down at me. I knew it was Ebony. A friend said she looked happy and felt she would be watching over me.

A strange thing about this picture is that there were no stars in the sky when I took the picture. Those circles and bright lights were orbs.

Memorial Day

This morning I got a message from an ancestry site I belong to informing me that my maternal grandfather, William Ott Johnston, died in uniform in 1918. Knowing that he died of a virus on a U.S. military base and never served a day of his life in his uniform, I am wondering does that allow him to be honored on this day? I guess it is a matter of how technical you want to get. It has only been in recent years that I even knew my grandfather's name and assumed he died in some foreign country, while serving the United States. I could not find any record of where he was buried because those records had been burned in a fire several years ago. I finally did find the details and now know he is buried in Bellingham Washington. Wow! the stories I made up, not knowing the facts.

Goodbye Ebony

My female cat of 17 years died suddenly last night. She slowly walked into my son's bedroom, sprawled out on the floor and took her last breath. I was happy she didn't seem to suffer. We still need to decide where to bury her. I'm thinking in the front yard between two lilac bushes. 

I got Ebony when she was a kitten. She was the first pet I acquired after my divorce. When she was a year old she became the mother of four kittens. The first one I discovered sprawled out on the bathroom floor. I put him in the basket I had provided for her to give birth in. She didn't have the other three until the next morning. Since she was the first pet I had ever had that was pregnant I didn't realize she was having a problem. All four kittens survived and I kept the first of the bunch and named him Smokey. I still have him.

Ebony has never been the people cat that her son is. She was particular who she made up to. She did appear to like my son though. She and my dog Ejay had an up and down relationship, but generally speaking they got along pretty well. So this post is a goodbye to Ebony. She will be missed.  

A waiting game

 I am still waiting to get my car back. It has been over two weeks now. It would be nice if they would just fix the damn thing, whatever the cost. I am sick of staying home. My son is taking his trailer out again this weekend. It is parked in the driveway ready to go. I just found out my youngest grandson, who lives two doors from me, is once again visiting his relatives in New York. It must be nice to get away from home!

Just do it

Who knew a car had a computer? I didn't that's for sure. I just talked to the mechanic who has been trying to figure out what is wrong with my car for the last two weeks. He said he had one more thing to try and if that didn't work they would have to order a new computer. My brain immediately thought thousands as I asked for an estimate if they had to do that. He said about $600. I thought, I can do that, it's a lot cheaper than getting a new car. I bought this car brand new in 2006. Even though it is that old it has very low mileage so it really doesn't make sense to replace it. My thought is just do it! Living where I do I need transportation to even get to the grocery store.