Rocking Your World 2021: Week 46

I have a short post this week (short for me anyway!), as it has been a very quiet one. We have been out a couple of times. Once was to go to the bank to complete some required paper work. Sometimes this can involve a long wait but we were lucky this week. We had no wait, and a very helpful lady did the paperwork with us, so that is a good job done. 

On Monday we went to the vet with Kim. She confirmed what we had already suspected, that he is starting to get arthritis in his hips - a common complaint with German Shepherd dogs - with some inflamation causing the swelling I had found at the top of his back leg. So he is now on anti-imflamatory drugs for a month with some others tablets to help build up the damaged muscle, and he also has anti-biotic drops for an ear infection! But he is his usual gentle self and still spend a lot of time sleeping on our settee, or out on the porch with us when it is sunny enough. I had to laugh when I took my morning cuppa out yesterday. Kim was asleep, 'overflowing' Foxy's little bed, while a much more alert Foxy was sitting on Kim's bed. 

It must have been Kim's choice because he would have soon shifted Foxy if he had wanted his own bed back.

On Tuesday we had to take the car to our mechanic friend who puts it through its I.T.V., (same as M.O.T. in UK) for us. So we drove over to Huerta Nueva - the urbanisation across the main road from us which is a part of Los Gallardos, left the car at his house, and although Andy was willing to drive us back home, we opted to walk. It was a lovely morning with blue skies, but cool enough to make walking comfortable. I actually hit my target of 5,000steps in a day, which hasn't happened for a long while! Huerta Nueva is built on a big area of campo, and although there is now some building going on to expand it, there is still a lot of open ground. So I stopped to try another panoramic photo, as my last one was very distorted, and I have read up about how to do it better. As you can see, there is very little distortion in this one. Chris looks fine, and in the distance behind him you can see the Cabrera mountains, but only just, as we were in a bit of a dip where I took it.

As we walked back I saw this lovely patch of flowers in a roadside bed under a palm tree. It is bright pink bougainvillea and pale almost blue plumbago. They looked so pretty together.

I am happy to say that the car passed its test with nothing needing to be done, and Andy returned it to us by lunch time. So we are grateful for that.

I went out the back one night and was struck by how bright the little sliver of moon was, and there was one bright, lonely star visible as well. I wanted to take a picture of them but couldn't get a sharp one because my camera could pick up the feint full moon not visible to my eyes. So this was the best I could do.

I am still managing to do a couple of rows to my big blanket most days. I have around twenty five balls of wool in a row at the minute and after each row I sort them all out so the tangles don't get out of hand. We have had a couple of wet evening this week so the cats have chosen to stay in with us and I had a bit more help than I really needed. Fortunately they took it in turns to sit on me. I couldn't have managed both of them as well as the blanket and the box of wool! Tango is showing his age now (around 12 we think), and he just wants to be warm and comfortable, so he sleeps on me, regardless of what I am doing, and rest his chin on my strands of wool.

Tolly on the other hand, thinks anything that moves is worth playing with, and he fishes the balls out of the box and steals the pen I cross off my pattern with! So not much gets done when he jumps on me. He looks sleepy here, but don't be fooled!

On Wednesday I took a couple of cloud photos. Earlier I saw this funnel of cloud, going down behind the houses. 

Later I saw this one. It looks like a bird swooping down on us.

And that's about it for this week. I did have a long video chat with my sister one afternoon, but son Ben is on holiday this week so we didn't have our usual session.

So I will link up with Annie's Friday Smiles and hopefully some of you will join in with what has made you happy/grateful this week.