Languages

Learning a 2nd language is an interesting challenge at my age. Being surrounded by people who grew up with more than one language is not really making it easier since they performed this modification on their brain at a young age when it was much easier to split the neural pathways without causing any major side effects. 2 months of classes and I am still barely able to order coffee and ask what time it is. Maybe after another month I will be able to read the book that I am learning from without having to look up too many of the words explaining what I am supposed to do.

Go learn a new language, it will enhance your life and test your profanity vocabulary.

Here is another cat movie for you. This time I am walking Spike and showing some limitations on what he is allowed to do. I am trying to show him that he has a lot of freedom within the limits of the leash. It was a fun time and it was longer than I intended for it to be but there is some fun stuff to see and you can really see Spike's personality shining though.

Taking the cat on holiday -- half over.

Not much to report on with the cat, he has had a couple of lazy days and we had one yesterday ourselves. We did go for a really nice canyon hike on Thursday and got some great pictures. Today is going to be a very hot day so I don't suspect we will do much of a hike, maybe just an indoor hike at the grocery store or an indoor hike at a museum. Tomorrow might be a good day for a hike or at least a chance to get the cat outside for more fun and video. 

Here are some pics.

Here is the video of Spike's 2nd outing on a leash. He really makes me proud that he is adapting so quickly.

Day 4: Taking cat on holiday

Yesterday we went on a small hike to get ourselves loosened up for doing an actual hike while we are out of town. Spike spend the afternoon lounging in the room so we decided he was ready to make another movie. On his second outing involving a leash, he made amazing progress in his training. I edited the video last night and started uploading to YouTube, due to the size and being on wireless from the holiday apartment it is still uploading. I will post the video later when it is done. Our agenda for today is to rest up and to get some studying done since I am really behind schedule on both topics I am to be studying on our holiday.

Day 3 of Taking the cat on holiday.

Spike has adapted to the holiday lifestyle very well. He is a little exhausted after having a big adventure yesterday. He is learning how to go outside on a leash. I don't have time for much commentary today so I will post a video of Spike's Big Adventure.

Day 2: Taking the cat on holiday

Spike has done a wonderful job of adapting to travel so far. For an adopted cat that had so many issues a few years ago, he has become quite the ambassador for cats traveling to all kind of places. We did sneak out for a little while last night with out him to get a snack at the local festival. Here is a video of the music we listened to while eating.

More fun stuff with the cat will be in a later post. Enjoy the music.

Taking the cat on holiday.

Day 1: Travel day. We packed as much fun stuff as we could fit into my tiny car and headed to the mountains. Unterengadin

Since the cat is diabetic and requires regular monitoring and injections, he was invited to come along with us. He was very polite on the drive here and immediately took to hanging out on a leash when we stopped a couple of places. This will be a 2 week stay and Spike will get a chance to play in the mountains a bit but will also be some time when he can hang out in the room and get some quality nap time in as well. We will be posting some pictures and maybe some video of Spike enjoying his holiday.

I would have never thought that a cat would be so adaptable to traveling but Spike seems to be enjoying himself quite a bit right now. Check back tomorrow to see more of our adventure of taking our cat on a holiday.

3 Years Ago

3 years ago today I started this blog. I wrote some fun stuff for a while and then my interest began to fade. There have been so many changes in my life that I rarely find time to get back to add anything new. I keep thinking one day I will return to posting more ideas, silly stories and even pictures from some of my adventures. I also think this would be a great place to document my return to being a musician. I have so many things that would be great to post here but I find myself wondering when or even why I would. Blogs are a wonderful place to put your thoughts and ideas or show the results of your creativity. I find it difficult to be fully engaged in life and still have time to make regular entries to a blog. I have seen a lot of my blogging friends try various exercises to keep the blogs moving and creative and it still turns into the doubts that anyone is actually appreciating what you do. Most of my continuous commentary ends up on Facebook so that I get immediate feedback on my jokes and other thoughts. Blogland became so dense with so many people flooding the internet with the contents of their mind that it was becoming impossible for me to keep track of just those who were keeping track of mine.

 We all wish that our blog would achieve the fame of some others, and some of the ones I was tracking were definitely worthy, but as with the music industry the best are sometimes unnoticed. I know my blog has some fun stuff and a brief insight into my creativity yet my blog has never really been something I would care to promote with the intent of becoming famous. I ask myself often if blogging has fallen out of favor with the internet with the exception of those who blatantly self-promote their content in an attempt to be recognized by others. Are they better ways to present ones ideas and concepts to the world so that they have a chance of someone realizing that they have something of value to add? Is the internet becoming and uninteresting place to explore? Is anyone else really interested in what others have to say? Could anyone find the right answers on the internet or is it just the quickest answers that are now being accepted?

If you read this message in a bottle, leave me a sign that you are out there and I will make an effort to continue my blog. In the mean time I will listen to the crickets that hang around the abandoned blog of mine to see what signs of life are still out there.

Kelly