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Namaste
A quiet week at Chez Tigre. I’ve now got 3 regulars at the feral feeding station plus Eileen’s Max and George. We’ve got SweetPea and either her sister or mom and a sweet little calico who approaches by jumping into the bed of the truck, walks along the edge, jumps on top of the cab, down onto the hood and then down by the bowls. She’s so silly.
It’s warm so the kittehs are shedding like crazy. Cat hair dust bunnies everywhere. Nothing like a plastic grocery bag full of cat hair and weighs next to nothing.
I’m gonna try to get a picture of the ferals this evening when I feed them.
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Hello all. Hate to start the day off on a downer but we had somebody execute a cat with a .22 last week. The bastard wasn’t caught but there has always been somebody around here who hates cats so maybe it’s the same person.
Kuroneko is fine. I’m experiencing a lot of foot pain, I think it may be gout which I haven’t experienced in several years, cause I sure don’t remember stubbing that toe. I hope I’m able to work tomorrow! Getting worried.
Oh, my! Margaret, I’m so sorry about the foot pain. Do you have meds that will relieve it if it’s gout? I don’t suppose something simple like elevating the foot would work?
And terrible, terrible news about the cat being killed. There’s just nothing to say…been said so many times about such people.
SD – re the shedding…I’m there, too. Been trying to keep everybody brushed, but I’m inconsistent. Got a new brush recently for Squeaky, the longest-haired. She hates it, because it does indeed pull barely loose fur right out of her undercoat, so sometimes I use the older ones on her that she likes better.
I had brushed her twice a day for several days when one evening last week I looked at the cushion on my desk chair…it was covered thickly with clouds of orange fur. I couldn’t believe it…never have seen so much in one spot.
I keep brushing her, yet it seems every time she moves, she leaves behind a new clump or three.
Pushy, who seems to have grown a new undercoat of lighter-colored fur llonger than his black topcoat, just resists brushing desperately, but the clumps I find of his are tiny. Still, I don’t know where all this new undercoat came from; he never had as a youngster.
Smokey remains the same, likes brushing with the soft bristle brush that gets some fur, but not a lot. But his coat is the thinnest.
Still finding furballs surprisingly often.
Aw, man, that sucks.
Friend Joe has episodes of gout. His is controlled through diet.
Sita is the worst. Little clumps of black hair everywhere. You can almost watch hair falling off her as she walks.
Yep. I’d had it controlled too but I’ve been eating less healthily lately. That comes to s stop today.
I’m sitting on the patio with my laptop – Wi-Fi at last!
Smoodgie just wandered over to the metal chair, and Big Boy is sitting below her.
A minute ago, BigBoy actually did that pet cat thing…pushing his head up between my knees like they do when you’re reading a newspaper…but he jumped back when I lifted the laptop to let him through.
Smoodgie walked underneath my legs, then settled in hand’s reach to be petted. Every stroke loosens her fur and it floats away. Big Boy’s fur seems shorter and more dense, only little bits come off, not a big cloud.
Margaret, hope you feel better. Are you following an anti-gout diet? (following any diet is tough to do when you’re working hard and long hours. I’ve gained back acouple pounds already, I know, since starting my job)
In other news, Phoebe has been working on the nest where she had her first 2 clutches this season. The host has seen a fledgling in the back yard around the pear tree but there’s no way to know if it’s a survivor of the hawk attack last Sunday afternoon.
Shortly after sunrise this morning a crow attacked the new nest. Actually sat on the nest. Twice. Phoebe wasn’t on nest so she’s fine. Host, who broke his wrist last Sunday, and his wife are now hanging strings vertically 8″ apart in the access to the courtyard. While they were doing this Phoebe decided to lay her first egg of the 4th clutch. Been quite the morning.
Some people are such assholes. Fucking jerk.
Happy Earth Day everyone.
Happy Caturday, everyone. Been rummaging around in the closets but I can’t find my big Earth flag.
I hadn’t been to the webcam this morning. Damn, this is becoming a chronic problem with intruders.
Pretty damn scary. Crows are smart.
Seconded.
Ah, haven’t seen one of those for awhile. Makes me think of the first Earth Day…I was in college, it was in Bloomington, and a lovely time was had by all. The first time I’d heard of phosphates, I think, and I bought someof the first non-phosphate detergent…cripes, the name escapes me..starts with S? Still around, but don’t see it often.
That was a beautiful day, too…(hey, what happened to the link chain? I thought we had that now): http://www.flixxy.com/its-a-beautiful-day.htm#.T5LdbAm9iOM.facebook
Would you mind posting the link again? Lost all my bookmarks that weren’t Yahoo when the old laptop died.
So I just looked up gout in my Healing with Whole Foods book, and apparently in Chinese medicine gout has a common cause with bladder infections. Damp heat is the culprit, so the usual suspects of refined sugar, meat, and oily foods are to be avoided. Do not overeat. Some suggested foods: Cooling veggies with some bitterness like aduki beans, celery, carrot, winter squash, potato with skins, asparagus, mushrooms. Recommended fruit: lemon and cranberry.
My book recommends a diet of broth an herbal teas during periods of pain.
Happy, happy.
How cool. Love the harness and the sunglasses look so well designed.
I found them online a few years ago so I bought a big one, maybe 3×5 for the porch and a smaller one that I use on my bike flagpole.
http://phoebeallens.com/
Heh, black screen at present. Host may be messin’ with the equipment.
Now we have Phoebe on the nest. Colours are magnificent.
It is a gorgeous Earth Day here, sunny, cool and dry.
Hoping to go to the Fiesta Arts Fair this afternoon. Doing laundry now…should do more, but don’t wanna spend the whole day working. A fairly busy week coming up, with some serious hearings.
Bought some more work clothes yesterday…wasn’t my intention, went to the mall for one small thing…ran into sales….erp. Justified since all my old work clothes don’t fit or are worn out, but a little scary; I’d already bought a bunch and feel guilty. Yes, necessary but darn it, I love clothes, too, so I always wonder if I reallly ned this pretty flowered skirt or just waaannt it. Sigh.
But must say, having more clothes that work together has made it easier to get up and get ready for work quickly than when a few things had to be kept washed and ironed repeatedly…yeah, I know, rationalizing.
Pushy sitting beside me, debating with himself whether to go inside.
What a far out flick! Thanks.
Another bad thing about iPads is you can’t get the Phoebe webcam or chat.
Isn’t it? I found myself just enjoying, where usually I’d be worrying about the doggie falling out of the car. Doggles! I guess that’s a first world product for sure, but watching him be so happy makes me feel happy, too.
Posted by Laura Doty on facebook…she doesn’t say that the dog is hers, but I’m guessing so. Don’t know for sure.
Er, need, not ned. Edit button gone, too.
Had a glimpse of the editing tools, but they seem to be coming and going this morning. ?
LOL
Ugh. Too many things can’t be viewed on iPad. That’s the number 1 problem with the device, IMO.
Yes, but the more often you wash and dry just a few outfits, the quicker they wear out, so it probably equals out in the end. That stuff in the lint filter isn’t lint, it’s your clothes :)
Left a reply for you at the quinoa thread. It’s easier than rice, IMHO.
Ooh, thanks, just came up again while I was watching…Phoebe on nest, facing camera!
Yeah, Adobe Flash doesn’t support any of the iDevices. Apple wants to use standard imagining stuff instead of proprietary. Big issue between Apple and Adobe.
Saw that. Heh. Rice takes practice to do well on the stovetop, I’ve learned. Not that it’s hard to do, but here is a learning curve.
Dryers ruin clothes. The heat breaks the fibers down. Hanging on line is the best way to preserve stuff, particularly cotton.
Phoebe looks like a perfect, jeweled Christmas ornament in bird form.
SD, in all seriousness, how do hummers keep from putting their eyes out with those bills when feeding chicks? The little ones’ heads jerk around and I always have to hold my breath for fear Phoebe will misjudge and poke a chick or a chick will poke her in its eagerness to be fed.
Rice cooker the only way to go.
Favorite lolcat picture of the week:
http://cheezburger.com/6137210368
Hundreds of thousands of years of instinctive behaviour. I always think she’s gonna drive her beak clear through the chick.
Never had one that’s lasted more than six months. Love the convenience, tho. Rice cookers don’t do pilaf, sadly.
Just checking in to say hi.
Had to finish reading my whodunit and now off to wildflower ID hike. After a gorgeous yesterday, today is raw but I’m bundling up with layers.
Breaking news just said that Hollande and Sarkozy made it to the second round of voting in France.
True. Also controls shrinkage, of course.
Once I had a linen dress that I loved unreasonably. It was a hand me down from my friend and sort of boss at the university. She just didn’t care for it, but it made me feel like some pre-Raphaelite beauty :), it was floor length, a rich russet brown. Anyway, it fit so perfectly it might have been made for me and I loved to wear it.
It by accident was put in the dryer with a load of clothes, and came out about 3 sizes smaller. I sat down on the floor and cried.
Geez, mine last decades and I eat a lotta rice. I use something like this,
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-SR-G10G-Uncooked-Automatic-Cooker/dp/B0009E3F5O/ref=sr_1_24?ie=UTF8&qid=1335115313&sr=8-24
Nothing fancy, less crap to go wrong.
wildflower hike! How wonderful!
Margaret, if you’re still here, I gotta say how sorry I am we didn’t manage the wildflower tour. If we headed up north an hour or two we might still make it. Last week on my trip to Pearsall I saw lots of flowers, but no bluebonnets. Lots of pink and yellow. Still pretty.
Oohh, I hear ya, girlfriend. I can think of a couple of disasters similar to that. I do still dry lots of things over the bathtub, to be safe. I always feel guilty for caring so much about a mere thing, but yeah, a beautiful well-fitting garment makes you feel so wonderful, it becomes more than just a thing, doesn’t it?
Mean kitty. Look at that sweet smile on that goggie…. *g*
It’s true.
First rice cooker I had was used and had been bought in Japan. I got it as a hand me down. I had it close to 20 years. It’s rice was more moist than Americans like it but perfect for Asia. When it died I got a new one and it makes rice the way Americans like it, a little drier and doesn’t stick together.
I see a facebook post from Suzanne that her apartment at the beach has been cleared out by her daughters and in-laws. Sad, but at least she doesn’t have that hanging over any more. So hoping she finds a good affordable pet-friendly place on the ground floor.
I think I’ve had that one!
As I sit here in my shredded denim shorts (thank you, Gigi) and raggedy tee shirt.
What kind of power do they have in Japan? I’ve never been able to import an electronic device without a toolbox full of converters, inverters, transformers, multipronged adapters, and a bible to ward off danger.
There is story there, I think…… Come on, out with it :)
I didn’t look at them all but my point was the simpler they are the longer they last, usually, and they do rice better.
*absolute spew*!!!!!
Oh, no story. Gigi spent a lot of her time in my lap kneading on my left leg. Doesn’t take long for the fibers to break down and ya end up with that stringy fabric look. Got 4 identical pairs.
The sticky Asian rice is much better with chopsticks :)
And with sushi…..
I have beautiful lacquered chopsticks. I love any excuse to use them. I think they are papier mâché. Is that possible?
All of our electric stuff runs on 60Hz current. Everywhere else it’s 50Hz.
LOL. I thought Gigi was a girlfriend!
It is definitely hard to eat American rice with chop sticks. I add a little extra water to the cooker.
Papier mache? Hmmmmm. Dunno. Mine are bamboo.
Speaking of Suzanne…bgrothus has been trying to get a little fund-raiser going to help Suzanne with her big expenses that resulted from the fall, surgery, new house, etc.
I posted the address as FB messages for those I could think of who are my FB friends, sent a couple of other emails. If anyone else would like to chip in, email me at msmollynd AT the gmail thingy and I will send you the address.
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You funny.
Well, folks, I had to get up – stiffening from sitting on the patio — and get the laundry, put clean sheets on the bed. Now I’m gonna try to run the vacuum cleaner quickly (but it’s been so long I really need to move furniture and do it thoroughly…but then I’ll be dead the rest of the day. Must.be.quick.and.light.)
I’ll prolly check back later today, but better get my buns moving now. Lovely chatting from the start for a change!
Did you see today’s Google Doodle?
SD, Great pictures, as always….I have decided I am hallucinating….I can still occ. feel Angela jump up on my bed; how weird is that?
Just to note…if you missed the book salon from yesterday, you may want to check it out. Sooo interesting. Both a great guest and a great topic….Take care, kids…..
Are you heading out, already?
See you later, hopez.
just looked, It’s a good one!
thanks for reminding me
This little kitten’s so fierce!
Mojo and I are engaged in the perpetual who gets the mouse pad struggle.
I saw that yesterday. What a little fuzz ball.
Oh, thanks. Have to slide that in somewhere today. Got more things goin’ than I know what to do with.
I missed the book salon in real time yesterday, but it was a good one. Turns out our guest was a Firebagger.
I love the somersault moves
A great guest…
To OM….Just in & out. Thanks.
Great Earth Day Hello to all Caturdeni-zens!
I’m off to (un)Occupy. I’ll catch up w/you mousers later.
Beware Police Cat. Heehee.
I got a few more minutes, our excitement here this week was the disappearance of Grayson, a cat who lives with my neighbor. He seemed to be gone without a trace, like lifted into the sky by a great horned owl, we know there is a GHO family living nearby.
After two days and sleepless nights, he showed up. I have no idea where he was, nearby is my guess, stuck somewhere we did not manage to check, and we did check every place we could find to look/listen. Talked to all the landlords, construction workers and neighbors for 2 days.
He’s one of the favorites around these parts, so it was huge that he was missing, because he is ALWAYS here at meal-time.
Crazy cats.
They do manage to find some unusual places to hide out, don’t they? Glad he is safe.
Max wanders off for a day, day and a half once in a while. Drives me nuts.
Hello all my day begins late. SD how do you manage your feeding the ferals. I have so many, and a couple are big bullies.
One just had four kittens in my garage. My daughter and I got next to the little plastic bin, all you could see was their little fuzzball heads sticking up, the mama ran, so we took the kittens, probably three to four weeks old, to the shelter and they will be spayed and put up for adoption. It seems to me that their survival chances are much better this way. They are cute as little buttons.
My best wishes to all and I hope the gout disappears Margaret.
Up to half a dozen I’d use individual bowls. Over that I’d use alum pie plates, 1 for every 2 ferals. Like feeding the indoor kittehs I’d pick up what’s left after an hour, hour and a half. Keeps other critters out of the food and the ferals will adapt to the routine. When there’s enough food where they can all eat at the same time a lot of the bullying disappears. Doesn’t take long for ‘em to figure it out. I’d also keep the dry I feed the ferals separate from that of the indoor kittehs.
Great shelter that’s gonna hand feed 4 week old kittens.
This video is priceless – it’s worth watching all the way through
http://youtu.be/KRBH21IvSrc
Just wanted to say “hi” before I get to read and have to take off.
Another article I saw on bees (h/t What Really Happened) is here. This is just a follow up on eCAHN’s post yesterday.
So funny! He was really flinging himself at that feeder :)
Hi BC, that was a great thread yesterday.
Bye, People of the Cat, and thanks for another Caturday, SD.
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Thanks SD. The shelter is great, and I know the kittens will be taken care of. I’ll drive over there this week to visit. Haven Humane is the shelter name up here in Redding, Ca.
yellowsnapdragon @38…I know that cat and The Look. ha ha
Without comment.
I’m back for a bit….just read your post about the ripped denims — don’t you realize how very fashionable you are?
You might be able to make some real money selling those to thttp://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/04/19/fashion/20120419-BROWSING-2.htmlhe rich fashionistas…..
I do get looks when I go to the store in ‘em.
Wait…that last bunch of guys were wearing American football uniforms!
“Hey, can I buy those from you?” looks?
I messed up that link, let me try again. And if it goes to the beginning of the slide show, the one intended is slide 2.
Grrr, now I’m just determined.
Not that important, but I hate it when it doesn’t work, and I know I did it right…
All right, they must have taken it down, even though it’s in my history. You can guess…three rich fashion-business women in various versions of ripped denim…one is a long denim jacket with…ripped shoulders! It looks exactly like a kitty was kneading on it for days…
It is….where do they get all that zest? No wonder they have to sleep so much.
It that a hoot, or what? Great gimmick.
Nooooooooootttt hardly. LOL
Money can’t buy ya the pleasure of havin’ a kitteh knead on yer threads while yer in ‘em.
Do I come here just for you to make me jealous? ;))
I especially liked the impromptu and unexpected boxing match.
So true. Hi RevBev. I still haven’t sent you any links, have I?
Lemme see what I can find, lol.
Gotta make a quick run to the grocery store. Never did go out…it was so nice just to hang in the patio, and do a few things around the house. I did actually vacuum, and now I can walk barefoot without getting my feet gritty. Still messy, but not dirty. Dusted a bit, too.
Are you weakening, Bev? sooo many kittehs out there need homes, y’know… ;-)
I have returned from my adventures of the day. Mr. Sadness and the girls are all waiting for the dinner. They missed a meal yesterday since I was out of town, maybe missed Friday dinner too, not that they are starving.
Margaret, may all good health return to you soon, sorry about the gout. That bites.
I got a house full-o-fur these days. Miss Sissy and Mr. Sadness are the long-hairs, and being feral, nothing I can do for them regarding fur removal strategies. They gotta do it themselves, and they are messy with it.
Take care everyone, and don’t hurt yersef climbing into the tree tonight, SD.
I loved that. I thought it was performance art, not a commercial.
No & NO…..But thanks for asking….In my heart I know Im right..;)
Heheh. Wait till you come home one night and find a new roommate waiting outside your door ready to move in…
O dear….the last 4 pets I have had were “inherited”…that is, hand-me-downs. I think that is a quota, no? One was a Yorkie many years ago, 2 from my daughter for different reasons, and the recent beautiful Angela…..Im into going it alone, I think ;) But obviously Im a pushover.
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Heh heh. For which the beautiful Angela thanks you from the Rainbow Bridge.
Thanks….and O, I hope so…And I thank her back…;) Nice, thanks.
Btw, I sometimes think I’ve felt a kitteh landing on the bed, and when I sit up or turn on the light,there’s nobody there. Not sure what it means. Nothing bad, I’m sure.
Really? It’s a very odd feeling, like para-normal or deja-vu….feels so familiar.
Well, who knows? I know my ex felt very strongly the presence of his long-dead siblings in their house on occasion. He would brook no argument that they were really there. Why not our beloved animals, too? I can’t say I believe in it, but I’m no longer willing to utterly scoff…
I’ve woken to what I think is one jumping up on the waterbed right next to the frame. I reach over and there’s nothing there but the bed is still moving.
Boing – on to bed
Boing – off bed
Nah, getting off makes more of a ripple in addition to the jumping on ripple. They have to use their back legs to jump down.
OT: The Swanson Veterans piece is excellent….
Thanks SD for another lovely day. Remarkable how the spirits of these beloved “kids” hold us together.
Good piece, thanks for the hit.
Time for me to call it a day.
Thanks for the company.
Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.
Namaste
Aw, knew it was too late…well, good night anyway, our noble host, and all the cat (and other animal) people who visit here.
Hope everyone has a good week, and especially that Peggy’s gout or whatever-it-might-be goes away and leaves her well.
Good Morning, Isn’t he the best, our host, and cute, too.
But he knows that!!! Good week to all….as you say.