We’re already in the northeast monsoon season or amihan and I am enjoying the hanging amihan (northeast monsoon breeze) outside my door. It’s dry but cooler. It’s so lovely to have this moment.
If my father were still alive, he would be sitting where I am sitting now everyday. He used to sit outside our screened porch every afternoon after work, to be with our dogs and cats at his feet. Either he would be smoking and drinking coffee or cutting his fingernails, or just hanging out with our pets. Even in our old bungalow, which was really small, about 100 sqm or less. He would sit outside, on the concrete ledge he built and just hang out in our tiny, tiny front yard.
I now know why he loves doing that.
It’s inexplicable but there’s some kind of peace in having your space, your own place in this world. It’s home. No one can take that away from you.
Speaking of my father, my mom and I bought flowers because the ones at my dad’s crypt were already dry.
We haven’t observed the Dia de Todos Los Muertos/Todos Los Santos the usual way this year (like probably the pandemic years) like my mom forcing us to pray the novena. We’re more casual now about it. Maybe because my cousins are holding the online novena for the dead for my mom/aunts and uncles so my mom is already satisfied.
Meanwhile, our stray visitor has already made herself comfortable.
Here she is, basking in the afternoon sun.
The male cat, George, never appeared on my doorstep again after Typhoon Egay. Now this calico sought shelter from my literal doorstep, bleeding, and very hungry. We kept feeding her at the bottom of our steps for several days now and treated her wound. She hasn’t left yet and my indoor calicos are angry. She’s very amiable and getting her inside the cage won’t be a problem, I guess. But I need to bring my own cats to the vet first on Monday to update their vaccines and for deworming before I bring this newcomer for treatment. For now, she’s ok as long as she’s fed and is away from other cats that are hurting her.
I don’t know what I would do with her. I don’t know if someone would adopt her if I get her fixed because we have so many stray cats in our area that people can just take their pick among them.
I’m starting to buy Christmas stuff from Lazada because this is the first Chtistmas we will be spending in our new home. I gave away our space-hogging Christmas tree to my cleaning lady. I don’t know how I will hang my Christmas lanterns but my contractor provided me with an electrical outlet outside my door, on the ceiling. However, it’s too high. I’m still figuring it out. 🤔