rainy days

i've noticed there's often a lot of bird talk in the trees when it's raining. when i went out for a walk just now it was so loud i couldn't even think. it's the small ones that seem to have a lot to talk about during this kind of weather. the ones that don't make any noice at all when the weather is fine. i wonder why? and what they are discussing? maybe they are all whiners who enjoy complaining about the weather? or maybe little birds like getting rained on, and talk out of excitement? or maybe they just seize the opportunity to relax and see each other instead of working, with whatever it is litle birds work with (eating worms and having babies, i guess?).

bob and i seize the opportunity to relax (both of us), watch tv (mostly me, i guess. there's nothing to watch though, which makes it a bit less nice), chew on bones (bob), eat cheese balls (me), drink tea (me), make the covers of the sofa into little indian-tents (bob), chat with the sister (me), sigh (both of us), yawn (both of us), sleep (mostly bob), let the cats in and out(me).

i have no idea what the cats do during rainy days... i only see them when they want to eat, and they only have time to do that a few seconds. so whatever they do it seems to be interesting. at the cottage they turned into mass destruction machines. one morning we found 7 dead lemmings under the trailer, and 5 more sprinkled all over the place :( i hope they didn't take the male ones, cause apparetly only a fourth (or something like that) of the lemmings are male... maybe they'll cause the entire lemming population to die!  ¶ 7:23 PM