February was cold and dark with a bit of snow and a very sad low.
As sunset comes to an end our house lights shine out into the night.Our woods have loads of these little purple beauties in them, they are called Dutch Crocus according to my Picture This app!
One night on our way back from seeing a film in Karlovac we spotted something lying in the road between our house and our neighbours. Very sadly it was one of our neighbour’s cats, a frequent visitor to Sid and Nancy’s domain and one which they used to fight with but seemed to have got used to and tolerated its visits. Judging by its position and still warm body it had been run over very recently. Our dead end road has very very few vehicles on it at night. We are very sure the culprit is one of the new owners of the last house in the road, we haven’t actually met them yet, but they drive relatively fancy cars by our neighbourhood’s standards and one in particular passes by much faster than we, our neighbours or any of the other animals around here are used to.
What on earth am I up to now? February has a project!Our brave winter guests from Tokyo had threatened to send us something but I wasn’t expecting a whole box of treats! Mochi, sweet red bean paste, Vegan pot noodles Japanese style and friends for the furries.Nancy instantly took a liking to her Tokyo keyringSid and his new little friend hit it off right from the start!Sanja joined the project and opted to handpaint the USPORI text rather than cut a stencil for it.What did this do you think?And why would a tree have this twisted pattern?Sanja carefully removes the pussy cat stencil from the first sign.Nancy is currently spending about 40-50% of her life in this banana box with one of my jackets folded up under her.Et Voila! DIY Road Signage is alive and well, unlike the poor cat that inspired us. This is the critical sign, situated so all can see it as they come up the hill and round the corner just before Barabrith and about 25m before the spot we found the dead cat. Uspori is the Serbo-Croatian for ‘slow down’.The SLOW CATS sign from the dead end (wrong phrase Jon!) of our road. That’s our barn on the left ahead.Is it a mini snow circle? Is it the trail of a drunk slug that then disappeared? No prizes for the first to guess what it is besides a sense of self satisfaction and my admiration! Don’tcha just luv these games?Coming back home after a bit of snow I was glad to see the slow cats signs still visible.What more could a cat want, sunshine, a box and some strokes! Oh yeah and slow moving cars!
This blog post is dedicated to the white and grey cat from across the road.
