end of the long weekend

[aurillia]

AHHH!

Unlike The Host, Amazon has already shipped Breaking Dawn!! I should get it tomorrow or Wednesday!!! You won't hear much from me until I've finished it, that's for sure

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[gothayesd51708]

I'm supposed to get Breaking Dawn tomorrow or maybe Weds. I am saving it for my beach read this following weekend.

[aurillia]

I've already come across too many comments about the book - they say spoiler free but I don't even want to know these people's basic emotional response!! I won't share any with you, but I really think I'm going to have to avoid Goodreads and my F list until I've read it! (and then put my review under a heavy spoiler cut!)

Icon love!

don't have to worry about spoiling it for me

[newwaytowrite]

I don't even know what the heck the book is.

I am wondering if you have a picture of this dreaded weed? I would like to be on the look out for it in our weed infested vegetation. Some deer have eaten the tops of our in ground pepper plants. What is up with that?

Anyway, enjoy your book.

And perhaps a way to get rid of said weed if practical...boil the kettle and then pour boiling hot water onto the weed.

Re: don't have to worry about spoiling it for me

[aurillia]

Sorry! It's the last novel in a YA series about a girl falling in love with a vampire - has as many hecklers as fans!

Here's a link which includes pictures, or you can google "tufted vetch" and click "images": http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/ontweeds/tufted_vetch.htm

Hmm but weeds tend to survive the ol' boiling water trick. Their resilient. The only advice Adam's found is to pull it up three years in a row, so it can't seed and the old seeds end.

[kat_nic]

That sounds like so much fun. Glad you had a good time--but those cats would have to go! Ew. Oz is strictly a housecat, because his last owner (my grandmother) had him declawed. But he never does that when he has to be left alone in the house over the weekend, or longer.

Well, if I piss him off he might puke in my bed. Very temperamental, Oz.

[aurillia]

Lovely, puke in the bed. Nice.

At our last place our neighbour's cat had been declawed on advice from the vet (because she and the other cat were destroying the house in their efforts to get outside), but it didn't stop them destroying the house so in the end they let them out. the other one's gone now but Pepper, she may be declawed but I tell you what, she rules that neighbourhood!

[kat_nic]

Oz doesn't really show any inclination to want to go outside. He suns himself in front of the sliding glass door but that's it. In fact, we've left the door open to get in groceries etc..., and he just sits in front of the door, no mad dashes or anything.

In any case, the reason Nana had Oz declawed is her health; she had an auto-immune disease, and so was on immune supressants. After a battle with a really nasty infection, her doctor told her she needed to either get rid of Oz or have him declawed, because cats carry all kinds of germs in their claws that can be transmitted to humans. Toby would have been declawed too, eventually, but unfortunately she didn't live long enough after getting him for that to happen.

Oz wouldn't rule the neighborhood, poor baby. Our neighbor's cat once broke into our house in order to attack Oz. We had the windows open because the weather was so nice, and Tigger clawed a hole in the screen and bloodied him up a bit. Oz was never the same after; that was the start of him acting all neurotic (

[aurillia]

Poor Oz!

I have to say, that's the best reason I've ever heard for declawing a cat (something I've always considered cruel and unnecessary - a general attitude back home really), and I tell you what, I'm sometimes tempted to have it done to Gaia, she can't retract them for some stupid Gaia reason and actually gets them stuck in the carpet. Not to metion clawing the door and rug etc. She's gouged a few scratches into Adam's legs too.

3 weeks to go yay!!!!

[ext_84342]

Sounds like a smashing weekend, apart from the kitty damage!

Re: 3 weeks to go yay!!!!

[aurillia]

The kitty damage is to be expected. That's why we leave Muskoka in the morning or midday, so we have time when we get back to clean up their mess!