Sunday Summaries - 28.05.2023
The black feline visitor, an information-heavy DnD session and weekends spent enjoying the weather outside with books and words.
Hello there! Welcome and welcome back to my creatively chaotic corner of the internet. It’s a lovely day outside, warm but not too hot. I’m currently sitting in our small pavilion, and while it only looks over our yard, it is a lovely spot to be during this weather. We have birds singing in the trees and frogs singing in the little ponds that spot our neighbours' yards. The occasional bee visits sometimes, and we even have a bumblebee bumbling through the air, looking for flowers.
I’m not a fan of summer or the hot weather that will undoubtedly come over us like a tidal wave sometime soon. But right now, while it’s still bearable, I enjoy the time outside.
This past week we had a visitor. Small and compact, black with bright yellow eyes, the cat has returned for another visit. The first time she appeared was about three weeks ago. Now, that’s nothing new. Living in a village, many strays and other outside cats enter our yard. My cat, Yumi, is also a free spirit. She does stay close, though. Our yard and the empty one across from us are her territory. Thankfully the street between our two yards is rarely used, and she stays far away from the main road. Yumi doesn’t like the other cats and protects her territory with everything she has. She’s smaller than most visitors, but she’s slender and fast. Unfortunately, she needed a few visits to the vet already, but nothing lasted.
A scratch here and there. But this cat seems to be special. We don’t know whether it’s male or female, but it hasn’t been neutered. We also have no idea if it belongs to someone. It looks relatively good, short and compact, and well-fed. But it also had a few tics that had grown to visible sizes already, and it gobbled up the bit of food we put out like it had been starving. It also wasn’t afraid of us so it might have had some human contact already. We have never seen a black cat in our area, but we’ve had some new people move into our village. Maybe it came with them, or it was abandoned somewhere close by. Yumi seems to have accepted it without any fighting. They walk past each other without the usual aggression. Sometimes there isn’t more than 30 cm between them, but all they do is look at each other.
It’s a lovely surprise to the usual screeching and fighting. I’ll keep an eye out and update you if I have more information.
We had our 52nd DnD session yesterday, and I never thought I’d make it this far with the game. Yet here we are, 52 sessions in. Our group is fighting, bargaining and fleeing through a world in which a cult tries to bring back the great madness left behind after the gods created the world. The madness, a result of a goddess giving too much of herself when she gave magic to the world, was trapped behind a pair of crystal gates. Now a cult has returned, and they are trying to reopen those gates. Last night the group met up with an ancient dragon who told them about their world’s construction and gave them a few more options. Maybe some hope as well? I’m curious which way they want to go. Mostly because I’m wondering how much I’ll have to rework. Which is a lot of fun. Adapting my story to what they do and the consequences of what they already did.
So, those were the two most exciting things happening all week. But honestly? Sometimes less is more. It allows me more time to focus on other projects.
Speaking of projects - what plans do I have for upcoming posts?
Well, here’s what I thought about:
A post about my current knitting/crocheting projects - why I started them, how long they’ve been in my WiP pile and whether or not I’m planning on finishing them off
A post detailing a bit more about my ongoing DnD campaign - what has happened until now
Typing up a couple of short fictional scenes and stories that have only ever been put down on paper
I don’t have publishing dates yet, but I’ll let you know once I have them.
Now, that’s enough of me rambling on in your inbox. I will enjoy the rest of my Sunday, and I hope you’ll have a great day or night whenever you’re reading this!
Love, Sue