lisaviolet's diary

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

otherstuff
11:54 AM - 02/01/2006

The topic: The washer
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Still works. Sweet.

I’m surprised, though, when I open up the towel basket. There’s not much in there now. It was always full when DeeJay was here. The reason was we used towels for him to pee on. And he wasn’t the only cat who used the towels as a toilet. At one time or another I saw Phoebe, Lonee and Oliver using it. I’m sure they weren’t the only ones since it needed to be changed at least twice a day.

Now, there’s none. Lonee still poops by the back door, but Oliver has gotten good at going in the litterbox that I’d put in there for DeeJay, the Rubbermaid container that has no lid. It’s short sided and easy to get into.

Gosh, I miss DeeJay and his skinny little body.

Little reminders everywhere.

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otherstuff
11:45 AM - 02/01/2006

The topic: It’s a drought
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Last year, our water company changed the way it delivered. They delivered twice a month for years and years and years. Last year, that stopped. They started coming about every four weeks. Some months we’d get two deliveries, but most months just one. And they sent out a paper replacement schedule at the beginning of the year, not a fancy heavy paper one, that you can stick to a wall.

Well, this year we got the fancy heavy paper one and it’s stuck to the inside of one of the kitchen cupboards. And he was scheduled to come last Wednesday, the 25th of January. And he didn’t. Brian ran out of water at his shop and we were getting low here in the house. (We ran out this morning.) Brian gave me the job of calling and asking when we could be expecting more water. I called yesterday afternoon and left a message. I got a call back this morning.

I was told “we ran out of the spring water you get”. And that he expected to have some today, he’d bring it by.

I paged Brian and relayed the message. He said “so the spring ran dry, huh?”

*lol*

I just checked, the water is here now.

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catstuff
11:29 AM - 02/01/2006

The topic: Springtime
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Yeah, I know it’s not spring in most places, but the birds here don’t know that.

And the birds are teasing the cats. Not on purpose, I don’t think birds do that, but yesterday I noticed some bird activity in the back yard. I didn’t think much of it, as I would watch the birds fly off before the cats got too close.

At least that’s what I assumed. When I got the kitties in last night, there was a dead robin down by the pool. Since I was in the process of getting kitties in, I figured it could wait until later. Well, later, in the middle of getting dinner ready, I realized that not all little black kitty cats were in. I grabbed the flashlight and went in search. Phoebe was the missing kitty cat and after some doing, I was able to chase her into the office. And in doing so, two kitty cats ran outside. Mystie and Lisa, which wouldn’t be much of a problem to get in later on.

But when I was trying to get Phoebe in, I noticed the bird was no longer where it had been when I first spied it. Hmm…. Maybe this was the reason the kitty cats were not wanting to come in.

Later, after dinner and after I’d done the dishes, Brian and I came back to the office. I played a game (kept losing lives) and he surfed. I figured maybe one or both of the girls might be ready to come inside and looked out the door. Mystie was waiting, so I let her in. No sign of Lisa, although I called for her. She wasn’t ready to come inside, yet.

Mystie said something to me and she sounded odd. I looked down. I yelled to Brian “she’s got the bird!” He went after her and she ran down the hall under the bed. I told him to watch out, there was cat puke in the hallway. When he saw her go under the bed, he told me to take care of the bird (gee, thanks) and he’d clean up the puke. He grabbed some paper towels and I went into the bedroom. Mystie had dropped the bird before she went under the bed, so I was able to pick it up by its legs. Brian was cleaning the hallway and he gave me a paper towel. I put the bird into it and gave it back to him. He took it all outside and put it in the dumpster.

I hate when the cats get birds. They don’t get many, maybe one every two or three years. So, I can be grateful for that, I guess.

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catstuff
11:20 AM - 02/01/2006
The current weather is chilly

The topic: About Annie
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She’s still got some problems, but she also seems to be getting better in some ways. I do wish she’d eat more. Earlier this week I watched her poop and she wasn’t doing a very good job. When she got back up here on the desk, she was walking funny. I noticed that she still had some poop hanging from her tail/butt area. It wasn’t stuck hard so I just got a tissue and pulled them off of her. It was fairly dry, so I started giving her a little cat laxative yesterday. I didn’t give her much since she’s not eating much.

I did get her to nibble on some Felidae wet this morning, which was good. This is something that all of the cats can eat, so it’s not a big deal if I leave it out for her.

She’s been very, very needy the past couple of days. Last night and this morning, she wanted to have her back scratched and massaged for a long, long time. I hope this is because she’s feeling more like being affectionate, not because she’s hurting in some way.

Her skin is much less dry than it was weeks ago, the flakiness is going away. And I found a couple of scabs on her back, which might mean some kitty bit her. And if she was sore from that, I can understand why it’s hard for her to walk. I know of at least twice that I’ve chased some cat away from annoying her.

The fluids went badly on Sunday, but were much better yesterday. I don’t know why sometimes it’s so hard to administer them and others it’s like slicing butter with a hot knife, it’s that smooth.

*sigh*

She has the sweetest purr in the world.

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