here.
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This afternoon, something apparently frightened Spot, because he flew from his cat bed on the recliner in the computer room (I was sitting at my computer balancing the checkbook), through the dining room, into the kitchen to parts unknown.
Ten minutes later I was washing dishes in the kitchen when he came skulking back into the room, and he had fur hanging off him in every direction. It’s like he’s half porcupine, and when he’s frightened he releases hair all over the damn place. I got out the cat brush (he likes to be brushed, one of the few cats we have who do) and spent five minutes brushing him while he writhed and purred happily, and ended up with two huge handfuls of cat hair.
There are piles of Spot hair all over the house, which figures – I did, after all, just vacuum the entire fucking house this morning.
I love our hardwood floors, but they sure do show the dust and cat hair distressingly well.
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I got home to Smallville (from Madison) last night to find that one of the fucking cats had barfed on my new comforter. Not only had they barfed, they’d barfed big, and they’d barfed early in the day, so that the liquid part of the barf soaked through the comforter into the top sheet below, and a little bit onto the fitted sheet below that. How long have I had the comforter, a week and a half? That’s a fucking record!
Do you suppose I have one single set of sheets anywhere in this house in addition to the ones on my bed? Of course not – I have one set of purple sheets I bought through Amazon, and the extra set of blue sheets that go on my old bed (now Fred’s bed) are kept at the Madison house. I scrubbed at the spot on the fitted sheet and then put a towel over it and called it good enough.
An hour later I was laying in bed watching last week’s Lost on the laptop, when Spot – who was sleeping at my feet – sat up, barfed ON MY BARE FEET and then took off for parts unknown.
I think you can imagine how very fucking thrilled I was.
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I’ve been playing
Snood – on the “medium” level – like mad lately. It relaxes me, and lately I’m winning more games than I’m losing. I’ve considered moving up to the “hard” level, but I think I’m going to hang out in “medium” for a while longer so as to assauge my ego with all the mad winning I’ve been doing.
I prefer, for some reason, to play it on the laptop rather than my main computer. I think I get too easily distracted on my main computer, which is in the computer room, in front of the windows looking into the back yard, because there are always birds flitting around or big fat bumblebees buzzing about. God knows I’ll probably NEVER get anything done once the chickens are back there and we get a couple of ducks.
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Things in Smallville are in bloom:
Things are in bloom.
Spirea.
Wisteria. It smells SO GOOD.
Plum tree in bloom.
Violets, I think.
Hardening off the plants (tomatoes, spinach, cabbage, sugar snap peas) in preparation for planting.
Euonymous. This looks so happy I might transplant it so that it’s over by the steps to the computer room (once they’re built, that is).
Fricasee the escapee.
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Previously
2006: It’s a little-known fact that the butt is the tenderest and most flavorful part of the cashew.
2005: No entry.
2004: No entry.
2003: I’d have to have a mind before I lost it, wouldn’t I?
2002: Luckily, I’ve perfected the mental art of putting my hands over my ears and humming very loudly should my mind ever try to wander in that direction.
2001: While we were on the way to the movie store this afternoon, she turned to me and said “For my birthday” which is in October, by the way, “Can I get another kind of pet?”
2000: Since then, Fred and I, predictably, have referred to smoking pot – when seen in movies – as “Smoking the wheat.”]]>
UGH! Cat vomit may be the death of me. You know it is no coincidence that they have the worst aim/timing ever.
Yeah, I was majorly disgusted at the cat hair after we moved to a hardwood-floored house, especially when you consider how infrequently I used to vacuum the carpets!
Yes, those are violets. 🙂
I use Snood to relax after work. My favorite level in Snood is “Puzzle” and can play for hours.
I love wisteria. So purple and so pretty! We planted two vines to grow up our arbor over our deck.
Spring has sprung!
I think I can top your barf story. My cat has been suffering from a bladder infection/crystles (yes, he’s been to the vet and on antibiotics) Well he has been peeing all over the house to “show” us there is a problem. Well I guess he thinks we haven’t heard him cause the other night while I was watching tv, he jumped up into my lab and proceded to pee all over me. Humph! I think I win.
That was supposed to say Lap not lab
Reading your stories and staring at Miss Kitty in horror….
Surely she wouldn’t….
I checked out the litter locker thing and have it set on favorites. Once you have had it a bit and tell us whether it is a great item that I just must have, or if it is like the Diaper Genie that I got with the kids, then I will pull it out of favorites. LOL
I rememeber getting that Diaper Genie, having great expectations and being sooo disapointed after being attacked by the funk cloud from hell after just one days use. The Litter Locker sounds like the same idea, only I am hoping and praying they followed through better on the design. So, let us know if you like it after a few days use. Thanks Robyn!!
Sorry, Christine, but you haven’t lived until you discover your dog has a constipation problem and you wake up one morning with a fascimile of a “cinnabon” tightly curled dog turd resting in the palm of your HAND.
Hope no one is eating while reading this. If so, sorry.
Oh, and I switched the dog’s food so haven’t had that happen again. ewwwwww
oh and the burning bush…..if it sprouts pretty little purple flowers then I think it may be vinca….hard to tell from the pic, but I have tons of vinca and it does resemble your pic.
Cats are vile beasts with their damn vomit! I am forever cleaning up cat barf. They have kitty bulimia. 😛
I think the first shrub might be a spirea. Might even be called Wedding Bells spirea or something like that. I agree with Kathy’s comment and think it’s vinca, used as a ground cover, and yes it’s a shade plant. Your wisteria is GORGEOUS. Lucky you to move into a home with a mature wisteria. They take FOREVER to grow.
Oh, and I have to send you hate daggers because of Snood. After reading about it on your site several times, I had to go google it and download the free copy. Of course you only get so many games with the free download, so I have no more medium level games left, grr. I’m stuck playing easy because the hard is just too, well…hard! I asume you broke down and registered, or is there a way to get more than one free copy? DO tell, PLEASE!!
Did you hear me cursing you at 3 am last Saturday night? I hadn’t played Snood in quite a while, I see your post and think “self, why not go take a look”. Well, now they have Snood Slide!! I didn’t sleep all weekend! 🙂
I agree with Chris. That is Spirea. And the wisteria is so easy to grow and transplant. Try transplanting some to an open area and keep it cut back in a tree. It makes a beautiful one. Snood is great. Try the puzzle level.
Wisteria is beautiful and smells terrific, but it will kill your tree unless you are fastidious about cutting it back each winter. Just give it time and it will choke the tree off completely. In fact, wisteria is pretty aggressive no matter where you plant it, so if you take a cutting to transplant, make sure it’s not near anything you want to keep. And give it something to creep up, like a trellis. We have two HUGE wisteria plants in the backyard, one on a trellis and one covering the pergola, and we get two bloomings every year – one in spring and one in fall. And they bloom for weeks!
My vote definitely goes for Wisteria Farm…. or even Wisteria Manor. Sounds very high-fallutin, doncha think??!
I LOVE the smell of wisteria. it’s so fantastic. and you can pull one cluster off and put it on the windowsill in the kitchen and it will smell up the whole room. mmm.
We had a wisteria planted next to the house, I loved it for the beautiful flowers, but it was causing trouble so we removed it. It kept getting into the siding here and there, and we also found that it had crept into the attic and it went from one end of the house to the other. It’s a pretty plant, but keep it under control!
Love those chicks, they are SOOOOO cute!