"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Cats on Dec 23rd, 2011
4:45 a.m.: scritch scritch Awake to Griswald scratching at the box-springs. bat ineffectually at horrible cat 4:55 a.m.: scritch scritch Awake to Griswald scratching at the box-springs. bat ineffectually at horrible cat 5:00 a.m.: scritch scritch Awake to Griswald scratching at the box-springs. Grudgingly leave comfort of warm bed to chase fucking cat out of [...]
Posted in Beastlies, Cats, Ruby the Dog, Super-Short Entries on Oct 29th, 2011
Ruby continues to hold steady at just under 50lb, therefore she continues to qualify for the cheaper heartworm preventative. Rejoicing commences. Griswald behaves himself in the car – minor bitching only, no yowls of evisceration. Moreover, he completely fails to piss himself. Earns reward of catnip upon return home. Minnie, on the other hand, manages [...]
Posted in Cats on Jun 10th, 2011
Minnie is really into taking naps. It’s pretty much her favorite thing. At 11, she is finally mellowing out. After several years of being intentionally kind to her, whether or not she wanted him to, Joel has broken through her nasty attitude, and discovered the sweet, cuddly cat within. In the past couple of years, [...]
Posted in Cats, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Mar 17th, 2011
I don’t remember now if I had mentioned it, but at the end of last summer, Griswald developed an “overgrooming” habit which left all four of his legs and his stomach all patchy, as he’d literally licked all of the fur off. I took him to the vet, and after $250 worth of science, we [...]
Posted in Car Drama and trauma, Cats, Gratuitous Cussing, You have got to be kidding me! on Dec 7th, 2010
Oh but he was! The trauma of his annual trip to the veterinarian for his vaccination boosters brought out Griswald’s inner Mr. Humphries (or Niles Crane, depending on your decade and side of the pond). His histrionics are impressive, if you don’t have to share the cab of a pickup with his yowling, howling, frenzied [...]
Posted in Cats, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Houseplants, Photo entries on Sep 8th, 2010
Joel built me a shelf across the windows in my sewing room so that the “Swiss Cheese Plant) (pictured at right) and the Madagascar Dragon Trees (at left) have a safe and secure home in my sewing room. Now, they’re above the level where I might accidentally crash into them and bruise their leaves and [...]
Posted in Cats, Distractions, Playing With Weather, Ruby the Dog, Utter Silliness, videos on Apr 13th, 2010
I let Minnie outside for a little while today. Griswald is banned from the Great Outdoors because he always gets “the call of the wild” and tries to break for broader and greener pastures. Then I have to chase all over the neighborhood trying to recapture him. Also, he is very, very, very stupid and [...]
Posted in Cats, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Dec 13th, 2009
Too bad if you didn’t. For a bit of context. I don’t know why, but when I lay on my stomach to read, Griswald seems to think that it is a great idea to curl up on my butt. I suppose it is a warm, soft cushion, and cats are magnetically drawn to anything that [...]
Posted in "Greenie II", bike commuting, Burley, Cats, Playing With Weather on Nov 21st, 2009
Today started out a little frustrating. I took off from home to head to work, and heard a weird noise coming from my back wheel. Turns out a staple had made itself at home in the tread of my tire. I tried to pull it out, but one of the ends broke off in the [...]
Posted in Cats on Oct 26th, 2009
$110.00 and a gruesome car ride behind me, both cats are vaccinated for another year. Bonus purchase of flea treatments all around, as Ruby has managed to bring in a late-season infestation of fleas. Ruby’s vaccinations took place back in August. The cats were due last month, but I was too broke, so it had [...]
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