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otherstuff
06:34 PM - 11/14/2010

The topic: Murphy’s Law hit hard today

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At least it did Brian.  I made a list for him of things I’d like him to do around the house today.  Three things.

Put up the new LED twinkle lights we got at Wal Mart last week.

Change out the bed cover for the air bed.  The seam around the bottom zipper came loose and I ordered a new top two weeks ago.  It got here last week.

Change out the water filter on the filter system for the water here in the house.

He did the bed first.  They sent the wrong part.  We need to send it back ($173 and change, you send it back).

The lights?  They would have been great, the guy at WalMart said you can link over twenty of them! Except the plug for linking?  Is on the plug that goes into the wall. If you plugged in twenty of them, they wouldn’t be end to end, they’d be like a twenty legged octopus and the plug that goes into the wall would be a foot long. 

He didn’t even want to try the water filter, he said “we’d probably end up without any water in the house”.

I’ve had some stuff go wrong, I stripped the bed this morning and am washing all of the bedclothes and pillows. The pillows are fairly new and I saw that one of them, the seam ripped out.  So, I sewed it up and when it was its turn, it hit the washer. I guess I didn’t get it all the way in and the corner of it ripped.  The corner I sewed up.  banghead

But nothing was really bad, just more annoyances than anything.  All these things to do and didn’t get a darned one done. Wasted Sunday.


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catstuff
06:23 PM - 11/14/2010

The topic: KittyMeeze is invisible again

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But now I know exactly how he goes invisible.  I was concerned he was leaving the yard, but I watched him climb into his local hidey spot under the juniper late this afternoon.

I boiled up a chicken breast this morning and gave him some this afternoon and he really liked it. He’s eaten a fair amount of that today.

He did a huge poop sometime today (I stepped in it, not even realizing he’s been pooping in that area). That might have been a small part of his problem, he was a little backed up, but it’s so much more than that.

We didn’t bring in the food last night, we think the raccoons moved to another area for the time being (since we’ve been pulling the food up).  This morning, all the kibble was gone, but the wet was still there.  I’m thinking Meeze ate the kibble (he likes it, more than he likes cold wet food) and all the wet food was still there.

I did see him run this afternoon. Since Brian moved his shop home, there are trucks parked all over.  Today, one of his trucks was on the lawn and Meeze was laying in front of it. He spied something towards the back of the truck and took off in a run to snatch it up.  This just amazed me.  There wasn’t anything to be chased, the sun was shining through the trees, it was breezy and there were lots of shadows in that area.  He may have caught sight of a shadow, but still, he saw something that needed catching and he gave chase.

I don’t know if it’s a positive sign that he’s in his familiar place or a not so positive sign.  I do know that he’s got a pretty bad URI right now.  When he was eating the chicken, he kind of choked on one of the first pieces he ate (they were very small pieces so they’d be easier for him to eat), but he swallowed it down.  If a cat’s cold is anything like a human’s, his throat might be a little sore.

Right now, we’ve got the porch light on (if we had a porch, it would be the porch light), so that he’ll have an easier time coming into this little safe area we’ve got.  The weather is mild right now, it’s six thirty and it’s 65.3° outside. No telling when he’ll make his way in. 

But the pad’s waiting for him when he’s ready.  It will keep him cozy warm.  I bet that feels good on old bones.


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otherstuff
10:31 AM - 11/14/2010

The topic: The tree hating neighbor

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She dumped a bunch of pine needles on our bank this morning, now she’s on her roof with the dust blower.

I’ll probably burn in hell for a few minutes for this, but every time I hear that machine, I think of having it put in her butt and blowing her way up like a parade float, then pulling it out and watching her zoom around as the air leaves her body.  Like in a cartoon.

Every time.


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