Cleo And Me
It's Friday The Thirteenth!
The number 13 is good luck for me.
Back in the early 60s I came into this world on a Friday the thirteenth, feet first to my doctors and Mom's surprise.
I haven't posted a selfie in I don't know how long. I thought my new Steemit followers would like to see who Red Dust is and her favorite and only cat Cleo. I found Cleo when she was around eight weeks old at Tulsa's American Legion Post #1 hiding in a pile of firewood. I stuck her in my pocket, and she has been with our family for three years. My how time flies!
A huge storm is rolling through Tulsa Oklahoma right now, and many times I get a migraine from the change in pressure. Today I was able to sidestep the headache drinking lots of water, taking Feverfew an herb that is helpful in relieving the pain of migraines and using vipassana mediation to take the pain apart and let it blow away like dust in the wind.
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@reddust,
Cats, sorry I hate them. They catch birds at my garden and making land mines (They hide their sh!t) :D Therefore, I hate them most! But this is a nice photography my dear friend!
Cheers~
@theguruasia, you and my husband would make good friends. He puts up with Cleo because I bake him cookies and serve him coffee every morning before work. It's a trade off (hugs)
You actually look younger that i thought
And every year on friday the 13th i watch friday the 13th
I don't like to watch horror unless it is silly like Zombieland, my favorite zombie horror flick....
I am proud to say I look like this all the time unless I have to go to a professional function then I add some makeup and fix my hair. I go for the absolutely zero effort look....cheap and healthy <3 Love you and your family @steemitwarrior
Thank you you really are awesome
Hmmm, interesting. I don't think I've ever heard anyone else say that the number 13 is lucky for them. That's actually kind of refreshing to hear. :)
I miss my cat. We had to put the little guy down almost exactly a year ago - taken down by diabetes. Ah, such is life. Great memories of him though.
Gonna need to put some music on to get that old Kansas tune out of my head - very subtle of you to do so, not that I mind so much.
Have an awesome, migraine-free, day!
Thank you @sminchow, nice to meet so many cat lovers too, Dust in The Wind, is one of my favorite songs growing up. It brings back so many memories four-wheeling up in the Oregon mountains and partying the night away with me friends back in the 1970s.
Ahh, it is lovely to see you and Cleo😊 And the early 60's produced some of my favorite people, my husband, my mom, and an incredibly forthright and talented artist that draws extinct reptilian sized riding poultry! Hope your life wanderings have been most amusing.
We didn't have computers, very little mindless entertainment and junk-food... we were allowed to free-range for play, I was out playing on my own all day by the time I was eight years old...I think that is why generations before mass entertainment are the most creative people and also some of the hardest working people. Many of us grew up on farms and had to shovel shit, real shit not video game shit coins....
Cleo just came and gave me a hug, she is shedding, it's time for me to stop wearing black...hahaha
Ha ha! Oh, I bet you look smashing adorned in Cleo hair! I totally wear my cat follicle jewelry with pride😆 Love those kitty hugs.
And I so hear you on the free-range childhood thing, I truly was more horse, pegasus, or unicorn than human for the first twelve years of my life, and roamed the deep, dark woods of western Washington and Southeast Alaska with creative abandon. People of all ages need more "to be" time, non-structured, non-hovering, let it be time. As a fellow feces removal artist, I salute you and your formerly poo covered pants, Yay! Also, I might have momentarily expired from laughter after reading the shit coin sentence, you're a gem @reddust💓
And in that sentimental vein I shall now run away to craft something in my chaotic kitchen, but before I go I have to share what my Bennie the Bengal did last night. I was trying to get her stuffed banana toy out from under the butcher block last night and she did this to my face:
Feet first, could't wait to get your feet on the ground. :-) Cleo is a doll and so is her mommy.
Staying grounded is important, especially during lightening storms @manorvillemike...cuddling with pets is like taking a chill pill, they seem to have specially powers mitigating pain!
Got that right, they make me laugh and smile even when they are bad.
I am sorry to hear of your migraines. They can be a real killer to a day. I saw Kansas in concert in Cedar Rapids, IA when I was in college. Always loved that song as it has a lot of meaning. Thanks. @reddust.
I never had migraines when I was younger. They started when I went into pre-menopause and some of them make it hard to see, my hearing becomes acute and painful, and I feel like throwing up...
I had to step back and change my way of eating and exercise to suit this new body. Now I can avoid headaches through diet and exercise and if one comes up I can usually mitigate it or lesson the pain through herbs, meditation, and accepting the fact I am getting old, you know, no overreacting! I find overacting doubles up my pain @enjoywithtroy and the song brings me comfort ;-)
Happy Birthday, @reddust! This is indeed an auspicious day to be born on! Cleo is a lucky cat that you found her.
Today isn't my birthday but it is Friday the 13th, which is a lucky number and day for me! Thank you @cecicastor....I am lucky I found Cleo, she brings me comfort <3
Hi, face! I hope the migraine goes away, and the storm as well. Now I have to ramble on for a bit, because you say you flag one-sentence comments. There we are.
lolol, go ahead and ramble, I don't mind, have a great weekend @ocrdu....lolol
It is comments like "I picked her up and put her in my pocket" that really give you a view of where you've been and where you are now.
Remember when children were born? They were like this big and full of shit.
I have no recollection of time. These clues are the only thing that give me any bearing on when something was.
Be well
My sentence structure goes out the window along with all my grammar lessons when my head hurts...picking little Cleo makes me responsible for her and I think she feels the same. Now we will take care of each other until one of us passes away.
I still can't stand my feet touched or tickled, the doctors tickled my foot until I stuck both of them out...not a conventional memory, more like a muscle memory.
Wow. this sounds good, my best friend was also born on 13th, i can safely say you are birthday mates. Cleo looks cute.
@factism, I don't think the number thirteen is bad or good, it is the value we place on the object, how we react to someting that can be bad or good...painful or not painful.