I had some kale to cook as part of last night's dinner.  I blanched it, then left it in a colander with ice cubes to cool.  Zoey came over to the sink, fished a piece out of the colander, and ate it.  I didn't want to begrudge her healthy eats, so periodically as I cooked, I pulled another piece out for her to nom.  Funny kitty.  I hope it won't ( Read more... )

So what do you think Zoey is curled up sleeping in, right now?  That's right, the old register I removed and put in a plastic bag so I could take it with me to the hardware store.  That same register into which one and possibly two of our cats pissed in over the years.   No accounting for taste.

Much better day physically today.  Took Zoey to the vets for her rabies shot.  Too bad we didn't take care of that when we were having her treated for asthma, as it cost us another charge for a physical.  I then went to the hardware store to get the replacement register for the kitchen.  As I parked, I noticed the muffler shop across the street had ( Read more... )

So, some successes, some failures ( Read more... )

In the ongoing quest to keep Zoey from having asthma attacks, I've been doing some research and thinking about our home and what might be triggering this stuff.  When I called the vets' to get another prescription for prednisone, they asked if we were using any number of things which commonly are triggers: candles, Febreze, etc.  Like a ninny, when ( Read more... )

So, as I said a while back, a very part-time position opened up in the pricing office at work.  Eventually it'll be Saturday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., but for the next six weeks, I'll be working in there two days a week, so I get acclimated to the routine of the week ( Read more... )

Zoey hasn't had a coughing fit (as we now know them to be) in over 24 hours.  *Does happy dance*

For those of you who didn't catch this news via my hubby's post, Emily took Zoey to our regular vet yesterday.  Babycakes doesn't have a hairball problem after all.  Nope.

She's got asthma.  Yup.  So now we're treating her with steroids.  Poor lambykins, she's been through so much.

The birdbath definitely is holding, which is great news in this weather ( Read more... )

Our next-door neighbor, Betty, is a total sweetheart.  She gardens as I do, kinda like Attila the Hun used to visit people.  Betty is 76.  She injured a shoulder about a month ago.  After the shoulder was x-rayed, the doctor said, you have deterioration of the shoulder joint, as well as arthritis.  Betty was a bit bummed out.  She went into the ( Read more... )