Slowly winding down, wood drive in the cemetery, radio times, bed quatro

I have decided to end this blog in May as it has been six months of blogging.    It is the beginning of a new era for me.   I will try and write about three more blogs, one each week until the first week of May.

Yesterday, after burning through our last lot of wood when a neighbour cut down a tree, we decided to we needed to get more or face a shortage.   The friend I have who lives in the country is a long way away for us to drive to pick up a load of wood.    So we decided to check a favourite source our local and some what historical cemetery.   As drove along the road on the south side we seemed to stop a lot of wood ready to be taken on cleared.   We drove around the roads of the cemetery itself to get to the wood but could only pick over some pieces as it was soft wood and some pieces to long to fit in the car.  We decided to drive on the north side and across which is actually under a bridge to the western side.   This property now as it is the city must make the property developers wince from the size of it.   Thankfully it is also an tree sanctuary.  It gives the city some much needed oxygen.  

After our drive,  we went to the lowest ravine area and found a pile of wood chips then got out of the car and there it was a huge amount of wood.  A lot of large trees that had been taken down but some wood was scattered around for the taking.   Happily we loaded the car and headed home with our find.   Thankful for the preservation a cemetery can be to plants and animals and to people who love a fire in the cool weather.

I have become a radio person.  I know longer have television cable etc.   I find myself listening to radio on a daily basis.  I have a few stations I switch to to suit my mood.   In the morning I sometimes first listen to the news channel then switch it to a station geared for people my age.  I sometimes flick over to the classical or Jazz stations.   If I am sick of the rest I put on the French language station which has some really interesting music.  It is my idea of a crossword puzzle to listen in French and get the gist of the conversation.  I am determined to go to the library and pick up French children's books and work on vocabulary.   It is better then crosswords which I find annoying.  I am glad that radio hasn't totally gone the way of the dinosaur.

Over the winter I have slowly developed a problem.  We now have bed quatro.   That is myself and my partner and Fred at my feet and now Rooster has decided except on nights when he wants to join my offspring.   This isn't comfortable and they mostly like to sleep at the end of where I sleep.  Fred is a small cat built for serious mouse chasing.  Rooster is another story.  He is double at least Fred's size.  When he is lying down he does become somewhat compact.  However I have a cat bed in the room and they ignore it.  I have a pad beside the bed and they ignore that.  What can you do when it is half love and warmth.   One leg comes out the side and another squeezes between cats.