My present from Ziva

So much for the early night – Mip Mips were still zooming by ten! Ziva wasn’t helping – she climbed up to her spot on the fanlight, and half the Mip Mips are clawing up the curtains.

This morning I woke up to a Mip Mip plopping off the curtains smack onto my face. Sigh. I also have a headache – again! Eventually I get up, Ziva and Mewthos get out with me. I let Ziva out the front door and keep Mewthos with me. Turns out he’s still a cry-baby! All alone with none of his siblings? He cries and cries and cries! So I put him back in the bedroom.

Ziva comes sauntering back in, so I close the front door and let the Mip Mips out – she’s now zooming around playing with her brood!

That didn’t last too long. She goes out and puts a dead bird on my doormat. I guess that’s her Christmas present to me – not bringing it inside! She wants the Mip Mips to come out to eat.

 

Yeah, I don’t think so. I understand that she wants her offspring to learn to fend for themselves – but I just can’t condone bird-killing, cycle of life or not. After numerous back and forth, coming in and going out, luring Mip Mips to the door – eventually Ziva gives up and eats her kill. Then comes in for some quality family time.

I’ve taken a closer look at the lounge – sigh. That silkworm has gotten everywhere, it’s not just on the plants and the pots, it’s all over everything on the table. I’ll have to wash and clean every single item on that table! A daunting task, best procrastinated. So I started digital cleaning on my PC. Which takes a long, long time – basically, what I’m doing is turning DVD’s into single video files. The conversion is relatively quick, but leaves me with a very large file – and since I don’t appreciate the super high definition, I can just as well shrink it. And that’s the part that takes so long: shrinking a 6 Gig video into a 1 Gig using Handbrake, which is an open source app. A 6 Gig file takes over an hour to convert. During which I’m free to do whatever I like – and today I like to laze about.

Rose and her daughter came to visit. First thing I did was shut her daughter in with the Mip Mips – I’m a great hostess! Ha Ha! I need Rose to hold the Starling while I change the paper in his cage.

Rose’s daughter is bonding with Quizzy Lizzy – Lizzy is really lucky! She’s going to a nice and definitely forever home!

We were talking about the twins today – I’m considering fostering them out. Continue financial responsibility – and they’d have a better chance finding good forever homes. But then again, even with homes checked before adoptions go through, animals are still either returned or … worse. There are no guarantees – and I don’t know what to do.

Earl is the only one who still has traces of blue colour in his eyes.

Rose’s daughter has a dog. While she’s visiting Lizzy, he’s shut inside Rose’s flat – and all cats are outside! Even after she – and the dog – have left, Shadow is very reluctant to go back home. Sits in my window with her tongue out a la ‘How much is that dog in the window’.

 

The older they get, the less supervision the Mip Mips need – at least, that’s how it feels tonight. They’re zooming around with Ziva, not climbing up the curtains, not climbing in or onto my furniture, not chewing electrical cables.

And with them all bouncing off the walls now, I should be able to get to sleep at a decent hour tonight!