Weekend Open Thread

Happy Caturday! Let’s start the weekend with a story from reader Hoosierina, another satisfied customer of the cat distribution system:

Within a month of retiring, this showed up in my backyard. Her name is Mrs. Jones, fully Mrs. Shed Jones as she was living behind it. Named so because itโ€™s just me and now we got a thing going on (โ€œthingโ€ involves much finger gnawing and turbo scampering — her, not me).

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9 thoughts on “Weekend Open Thread

  1. 6rabbits October 5, 2024 / 8:24 am

    That is one adorable kitty! The rumbling purring!๐Ÿ’™

  2. Ricky & Bibi's Mom October 5, 2024 / 8:33 am

    Congratulations, Hoosierina! Mrs. Shed Jones is adorable!

    Also, excellent naming reason. In your joint honor โ€ฆ (get ready to slow dance, everyone!) โ€ฆ

    • Dubravkamcvmd October 5, 2024 / 8:47 am

      Right on! As was said back in the day.

  3. Ricky & Bibi's Mom October 5, 2024 / 8:36 am

    Happy Caturday and Saturdog!

    • allein ๐Ÿพ October 5, 2024 / 9:21 am

      You beat me to it!

      Thank you, Blue, I feel calmer now.

      Also, I was gonna share Sadie and her impressive high fiving skills but she (rightly) made the top ten so I don’t have to.

  4. tara October 5, 2024 / 8:50 am

    AWWWWWWW! Mrs. Jones you are adorable!!! other Mrs. Jones, please send many many videos of your new friend. What a great way to start a Saturday morning.

    I’m working our 200th Anniversary Block Party today! I have a little “portable” platen press. “Portable” because while I can lift it – it weighs a ton. I’ll be talking about letterpress printing and letting people print on it. They get a take-away card with my favorite Ben Franklin quote:
    Hide not your talents, they for use were made
    What is a sundial in the shade.

    Have a great day everyone!

  5. AJ October 5, 2024 / 9:23 am

    Congrats, she’s just adorable! Love her coloring and markings.The only thing a distribution system sent me in our yard was a very fat skunk. Definitely not letting that in our house.

    To continue the work saga of the mass mailing I was working on. At about 2:30 and only up to the files starting with F, the printer decided to start jamming and finally stopped working. Thankfully the repair tech was in the area and came by. More bad news, he needs to replace a part on Monday and it will take about 2 hours. The only way to print is one file at a time and breaks in between. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ณ Gotta laugh or else I’ll be crying. Oh well, it will get done but later than sooner.

    Weekend looks like it might be productive. If it’s not too hot, time to clean and organize one of our backyard storage sheds. Plus finally get some supplies and gather all my recipes in one binder or file folder. Then just the usual errands and chores. Enjoy the block party Tara, sounds like a fun day. Happy Weekend everyone!

  6. Georgiana October 5, 2024 / 9:25 am

    Oh my! She’s a tiny little thing isn’t she, I’m glad the cat distribution system found her a good home with you Hoosierina.

    Went for a blood test yesterday, this time the doctor included everything not just for my diabetes so I had to be fasting for 8 h, I hate that, I’m the kind of person who eat as soon as I get up in the morning, my husband is the other way, he sometimes doesn’t eat until lunch.

    Minnie is still doing OK, her appetite is not great and she has trouble with her back legs but she’s still able to go up and down the staircase to the basement where the litter box is so it’s not too bad yet.

    Hope everyone has a good weekend.

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