It’s another Caturday in Cutetropolis, and here’s a beautiful cat to get your weekend off to a happy start. The open thread is here for you to talk about whatever you want!
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That is one pretty fluffy kitty!
I’m very exited today because we are meeting friends I haven’t seen for diner tonight, of course I have been keeping in contact with them over social media but it’s just not the same as seeing them in person. The plan is to leave a little early because my husband wants to go to the big book store downtown, as for me I’ll go walk around Chinatown and then head down to the the Old Port before going to the little bar in the restaurant where we all will meet.
Since most of the restrictions have been lifted on travels between regions we are talking about maybe going on a one day road trip maybe to Ottawa or Québec City in the coming weeks, we even talked about going to a water park but I don’t think I’m ready for that yet.
Well that’s it for me this week, hope everyone is in good health and reasonably happy.
Be seeing you.
So nice to hear stories of our big return to (hopefully!!) the new normalcy!
Enjoy your night out! It sounds lovely. Like Dulcie, I enjoy hearing stories about returning to normalcy.
Sounds like a wonderful time! Have fun!
You look mah va lous darling! And yeah Georgiana for getting to meet up with friends and possibly do some traveling.
My weekend looks to be pretty quiet. My allergies turned into an ear infection so I’m just wiped, little to no energy to do much of anything. Plus the weather is overcast and muggy. Have a few necessary errands to run but I think that’s about it. Did meet new new doggies in the neighborhood yesterday while taking my morning walk. One’s a friendly little bichon named Buddy and Abby, some sort of mixed breed. She’s a rescue that’s trying to figure out that the world isn’t too scary. I was thrilled when she came over and sniffed my hand. Baby steps sweetie pie, baby steps.
And I’m excited that finally my little desk that needed to be repaired is going to be finished next week, 7 months after dropping it off. Some of it was me saying I’m in no rush and some he was busy with other time sensitive projects. It was the last project my dad did before he stopped doing wood refinishing so it has a lot of sentimental value to me. Now I need to clear out a corner in my room to place it in. It will be nice to have it back. Have a great weekend everyone.
I spotted this kitten on YouTube, and he has a lot to say:
That totally freaked out my mother’s kitten. She came running in trying to find the little guy.
Aw, kitty looks like she has some opinions to share.
Little Elvis up there might have even more to say if he found himself at the vet.
Going shopping with my mom later to get a baby gift for my cousin’s daughter’s soon-to-be daughter (she already has a son who’s not yet two so they’ve got plenty of baby stuff but no girly stuff…plus I’m guessing he’s still using some of it!). They’re having a “Sprinkle” at the end of July.
What’s a “Sprinkle”?
I think it’s a small shower, as in baby shower.
Either that, or it’s learning how to change a baby boy’s diaper.
😂
Yes, it’s a baby shower by another name (scaled down a bit). Or an excuse to have a second shower without calling it a shower, when you just had one less than two years ago (that’s my cynical side saying that but my family’s really not like that). I expect most of the gifts will be geared to girly clothes and toys and stuff and less of the standard baby equipment that they will already have. (As opposed to my friend’s sister’s second shower when she had her kids eight years apart so all the baby stuff had long been tossed or given away).
I’ll have to go look for some newer books since she got a lot of the ‘standards’ (including my favorites from me) the first time around; want to get something she’s less likely to have. But I always give at least one book.
Happy weekend to all.
I’ve been avoiding commenting lately because I don’t want to bring down the mood. Things are not going well, both for me and life in general. New owner downstairs doesn’t want to understand that stratas have bylaws for everything, and that his right to smoke in the unit he owns (which is valid) doesn’t include the deck, and affects the rights of the owners around him who have the right to breathe. He refuses to accept tha… ahh, you peeps don’t need to hear this.
Duckie is learning to say “peekaboo”. It’s a slow process. She has the “peek” down pat, but the “aboo” degenerates into a sort of grumble.
Stupid Holter monitor on Wed. Massive family party tomorrow. Hubby annoyed with his work.
Have a great weekend, all.
People have gotten terribly selfish haven’t they?
Firepit and brutish motorcycle people have the freedom to keep me awake at night. I don’t have the right to fight it. Maybe one day breathing and sleeping might be important to them but apparently not at the moment!
Vivacious! Could host a talk show. I on the other hand am the opposite. Broke a bone and cartilage in a fifth toe. Not a tragedy. Should be fine in three or four weeks but I’m reduced to galumphing in a post-op shoe.
Oh no! The little piggy toe got injured!
Get better soon lil piggy. 😁
Fabulous kitty is FABulous! And Elvis’s chatterbox ways are so sweet. I do love talkie cats.
Sounds like Cutetropolitans are going through a rough patch. Sympathy and commiseration to you all. Sadly, I have to add to the stress with Josephine’s news.
We’re trying to treat Josephine’s hyperthyroidism and pain–something happened to her leg some years back, and I never took her in, and it’s been getting harder for her to walk. Unfortunately, the treatments may affect her kidneys. The vet and I agree that she’s still interested in life, but if her kidneys go, she may crash suddenly. So this coming week will be difficult: she’s getting pain meds that may damage kidney function, and she’s starting her hyperthyroid meds. In a month (if she makes it that long), we’ll redo bloodwork and see where she’s at. On the days I go into the office, I’m gone for 11.5 hours, and that has me worried. Fortunately, if I have to take her in before the 1-month mark, it’s not hard to WAH for a day and do so–my boss will be supportive.
Weekend plans involve hanging with my cat-peeps. They very obviously miss me during the week. Even Scorpius seems happy to have me WAH in his basement on Fridays! I can organize projects and chores to maximize my time with them. Our biggest project will involve trying to get them interested in the Litter Robot. So far, nobody has willingly entered it. Thank goodness I found https://www.wayofcats.com/, a blog (and book) that has extensive advice on transitioning to the LR and on ferals. This lady has been a lifesaver.
Hugs to you all. Keep on truckin’.
Debg, Dubravka, AJ and Duckie, hugs to you!
I’m so sorry you have to deal with all these difficulties.
You said it Ems. Tough times. Hugs to all and DebG, extra hugs and pets for Josephine. We all know this feeling. 💕💕
Ems, how are your feral mama and kitten doing?
I’ve identified one of “my” adults as an intact male. Still no count on the kittens–they’re just too wiggly, too shy, and too close in looks. The bold black one and the grey cloud-tabby are the only ones I can confidently identify. Everybody is getting more comfortable coming into my yard or eating on their side of the fence while I stand maybe 10 feet away. Kittens are still small enough to go through the chainlink fence; the 3 adults go over.
The kitten is growing so fast, a part of me would love to keep him a kitten forever. My neighbour claims him to be her own kitten, but she totally neglects him. She is annoyed that the kitten comes over to me to play every day, she is jealous. I’m trying to convince her that the kitten should be vaccinated, I would arrange it and pay for it, but she is stubborn, so it is not easy, but the kitten is a sweet lovebug.
Mama cat has started exploring my yard and I can see her sometimes sitting at one place for a few minutes, this is a huge step forward. I wish I could explain to her somehow that she is safe here. Yesterday she came closer to the house for the first time to kindly remind me of feeding time. I hope one day I will be able to pet her.
Folks, thanks for the sympathy and support. I would be lost without this wonderful community of friends-I’ve-never-met.
Please hug Josephine extra for us tonight. So glad that you’re taking care of her and making sure that she has good quality of ligr.
Hi, all. It’s been a long time since I commented, but I honestly haven’t had much to comment on. I spent the initial pandemic isolation knitting hats and mittens for my daughter, who had asked for some; I got stuck in a rut, and ended up sending her a box of at least 30 hats and half a dozen each mittens and cowls. She still thinks it’s hilarious, and until it got too warm wore a different hat to work every day, plus gave some away. Now I’m working on summer tops. It keeps me sane.
The pups are fine, although Sebastian still gets nasty ear infections periodically — those spaniel ears, it’s pretty unavoidable, even with us regularly cleaning them — and he’s getting pretty arthritic; we’ve determined that he’s at least 2-3 years older than his initial adopter thought (the girl who passed him on to us because she her job got so busy she felt awful about not having enough time for him, so we adopted him from her in an “open” adoption. She’s visited him periodically, being a lovely young person. But anyway, his back end is quite arthritic, but he chugs along happily.
And Yoofi’s odd skin condition pops up periodically as well, where she loses patches of hair here and there. It’s not mange, they’ve determined it’s autoimmune, but the only doctor who cleared it up completely promptly retired, and nobody else can figure out what he did. At least it doesn’t bother her, she just looks patchy! She’s still a total goofball, more a lab in a greyhound’s body than anything else.
I’ve got a quiet weekend planned. I took a week off recently just for a sanity break from too much work, but I’m back to the salt mines now. Being self-employed means weekends can be workdays, too. And I’ll be watching some of the Olympics; I enjoy a lot of the odd sports, and I always enjoy watching people do their very best, whether or not they win a medal.
I’m sorry you have an annoying neighbor, Duckie. And I’m sorry you’re dealing with pet health problems, too, DebG. I’ve been sending out good thoughts to everyone even while I was lurking. Have a good weekend, and enjoy doing almost normal things again, everybody!
We all need a sanity break. Enjoy your well deserved time off.
Laura, it’s so great to hear from you! We’ve missed you. Hugs to you and your family, especially the goggies.
TikTok put me in the mod lounge?! Dusty in here…
pokes around looking for snacks
A disastrous week at the Shortcakery – my dad was admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties on Tuesday night and kept in until Thursday. That morning I got a bizarre phone call from him in which he asked to speak to my mum, who died in 1988. He couldn’t understand why I was at home because he’d just seen me in a corridor at the hospital! This is exactly what happened when he had to go into hospital two years ago – when he leaves his familiar surroundings he almost immediately loses touch with reality.
He came home on Thursday afternoon, still confused, and started telling me how he’d been held prisoner in a warehouse. Fortunately within a couple of hours he was almost back to normal. After this experience I’ve decided that he won’t be going back to hospital unless it’s a matter of life or death…
I’m so sorry, Very upsetting for you. This just happened to a friend of a friend who was hospitalized and lost touch with present reality. She’s 90. After she got home she immediately improved and kept improving. I had thought it only happened to old people with dementia/Alzheimer’s but it seems to happen to elderly people who are otherwise mentally OK also.
Alice, so sorry. Sending good thoughts to your household.
Sorry about that! I’m not sure why that happened.
Love the hoomin’s reaction!
Yesterday I came across the Princess Bride at home that they did last year in lockdown. It’s an hour long so I wasn’t going to watch it yet but it came up on my playlist and I got sucked in. 🤣
Had to use wikipedia to try to keep track of everyone (and wasn’t totally successful because I don’t even know who some of them are.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Movie:_The_Princess_Bride