Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for December 04, 2024

Pre-broken? Where’s the fun in that?

@ d&k  Picked up yore Reply before opening today’s.. You’re welcome ! ;-)

Jellybean is not into DIY ☺️

What a great idea! Let your people think you are doing your job, while in fact, you’ve napped all day.

Do they sell the little hawked up pile I always found under my tree? Well I found it other times too. Maybe it isn’t a “seasonal” thing.

I don’t know about Chesney, but I know that my cats would prefer to break ornaments themselves (or to cause me to by knocking them off the tree so when I rock forward in my recliner, I squash them). And they do their own wrapping paper tearing (especially while I’m trying to wrap presents.

Today is:

NATIONAL SOCK DAY

NATIONAL PACKAGE PROTECTION DAY

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION DAY

CABERNET FRANC DAY

SANTA’S LIST DAY. My list for Santa would include cat food, cat litter, cat toys and some groceries for me.

NATIONAL DICE DAY

Thanks everyone for your well wishes yesterday. I did call in sick for Tuesday because I still had a fever even as it got close to time to leave for work. And I was still coughing and sneezing and blowing my nose. Over the course of 2 days (Monday and Tuesday), I went through 2 whole boxes of Kleenex (120 tissues to a box). I’m coughing a lot less now, but still sneezing and blowing my nose. And now I have watery eyes and a red, sore nose. It’s so seldom that I get sick, but whatever bug I picked up sure hit me hard. I did a Covid test and it came back negative. But while I feel somewhat better now, I’m still not well. If I’m not better in the morning than I am right now (I’m going to bed in about 5 minutes), I will call off work again in the morning. I can’t work with watery eyes and a runny nose. I have the day off on Thursday, then I should be good to go on Friday. My fever has broken, at least for now, but I’ll see if it goes back up in the morning. I’ve been feeling a bit “barfy” so it’s hard to eat. I hope I can eat more starting today.

Need to add toppled trees

General havoc all around! I’m not sure what Christmas stuff I will put up because of my hooligans.

Jellybean looks perplexed. Not sure if I’ll put up my tree this year, the new siamese really likes to play. I have not purchased a cut Christmas tree in decades, usually cutting a long pine branch locally and literally nailing it to a wall until Craig and I purchased a pinyon pine (which has been on the porch for 8 years now). I was at Home Depot yesterday and glanced at the trees out in front – $185 for a dying tree? Really?

LOL!! I remember getting Christmas gifts from my sister, with cat hair stuck to the tape. They were “helping” her. : D

Ohboy! Broken ornaments!!

But….doesn’t buying the stuff already broken, shredded and torn take all the fun out of it?

It’s been a rough few weeks for me. Long story, starting last Sept with my sister. She started losing weight because everything came out at both ends.Doc blew her off. Had to wait 6 weeks to see the gastro, then another few weeks to be scheduled for the colonoscopy. At this time, she’s lost about 100 lbs. Her friend said she’s looked horrible. Last month she lost all bowel control, started falling. Ambos came, hospital sent her home twice. This last time it was clear she couldn’t go home. She was passed between TWO hospitals because nobody knew what to so. Gastro doc NEVER showed up. Finally, on Thanksgiving, they did surgery. Still don’t know a diagnosis or what they did, but she has an ostomy bag and has had a feeding tube. She got CDiff and sepsis and a clot in her arm from the pic line. A doctor finally called me yesterday so I got info that Sandy didn’t tell me. But, in her defense, she’s been pretty out of it from the pain meds. On Monday night, something happened and it was so bad they sent her for a brain scan. Everything was ok so they don’t know what happened. In the meantime, her friend has been going to her place to shampoo carpets and try to deal with everything because of no bowel control. She has a full time job and a preteen son so she’s been run ragged. I talked to her late last week and told her to just throw away all of the bedding and bath linens and some of the clothing. And, even the two quilts I made her. There was no reason for her to deal with that biohazard issue. I went onto amazon and bought linens, some sleep shorts sets, undies and other things. I know there will be more but it was a start. I had everything sent to her friend. They’re sending her to rehab late this week. She THINKS she going home. Won’t she be surprised when the ambo drops her at rehab? Among all of that, I made a quilt for her friends’ mom. Finished this morning.So, I haven’t been anywhere online much.

Not to mention boxes … boxes … boxes …

FREE ELDO!

Looks like they don’t sell tinsel. That’s good. Tinsel is bad for cats to swallow. Heck, it’s bad for ANYONE to swallow! I’ve never used tinsel in my Christmas decorations. On another note, saw four chickadees and eight varied thrushes while out walking today.