She was the last of the real, true housemothers of my family, and we will all miss her very much. She was always all about work, never letting her hands fall idle. She knitted, embroidered, wove, croched, cooked and cleaned, and she loved it. When we were children she would baby-sit us and she would keep us busy by teaching us how to bake, weave, knit or anything else productive. When we wanted to run around and just be noisy, she would either let us be noisy while doing something usefull like getting fire wood or she would send us outside to play.
One day I hope I can be as good a housewife as she... one day.
On a happier note: 5 weeks ago one of our cats disappeared. She had not been seen since, but wednesday noon I got a text-message from one of our neighboroughs saying that we should take a look in the paper. A cat had been found and the vet was looking for her owners.
My husband called them and described her to them , and they told him that he should come over and take a look. And lo and behold! It was our sweet cat! She had been trapped in the remote-heating machinery room at the hospital for 5 weeks, and when the people from the electric company whent to plug a leak (the same one that probably had been keeping her alive for 5 weeks) she came stumbling out, dehydrated and skinny as h***. They shipped her of to the vet immediatly and a news reporter picked up the story the same day, and the next day we found out.
She has been without food and proper drink for so long that her liver and intestines had all but shut completely down. We got her back yesturday and I was shocked to see the shape she was in.
She used to weigh about 4kg, now she is barely 1.8kg and nothing but skin and bones, but from todays blood tests and liver tests she is healing. The friend who is cat-sitting her sendt us a picture and a status report telling us that she's is doing better.
Here is a picture of our baby Aibast II taken today.
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