we have been using the guest room and bath for a month due to a master bath renovation. Abi has gotten accustomed to roaming the house at night so she could access her litter box.
tomorrow we move back into the master suite and my husband installed a cat hole so she could still roam and come...
here is the table before we demolished it by actually eating. I love decorating for a party. dinner was butternt squash soup, leek and olive tart and spinach salad. we had a croquembouche for desert ( a tower of creampuffs decorated with caramelized sugar)
Sukkot is a fall harvest festival celebrated by Jews all over the world. we construct a sukkah (must have three sides, an opening so you can see the stars and not be a permanent home). Here is ours all decorated and ready for parties.... we eat in it all week from last night on.
Happy Sukkot !!!
someone has an infestation of garter snakes in their yard... well up here (NW USA) it is a record year for spiders. they are building huge webs... I am talking five feet wide and covering entire bushes. the spiders themselves can be up to two inches wide. Anytime I walk somewhere in my yard I...
I was making a felt geode for the person I am "secret santa-ing" and i like it so much I am going to keep it or hang it on the tree. it fits in the palm of my hand. I am soooooooooooooo bad. But I will make her some thing else nice.
when we first got our cat, my husband treated her like a small animal. he slowly came to understand the depth and breadth of her feelings and intuitive abilities. He even admitted once that she gave him a "dirty look" and could send love beams with her eyes.
Last night while she was talking to...
Abi has hers fine tuned. she waits near the bottom of the stairs while we watch TV. she knows we are going up for the night because all lights are off and we are carrying ice water... she tears up the stairs, races for the bedroom door, jumps onto the bed and says a soft mew. That is our cue to...
abigail is my princess baby dream cat and I dont want to do anything that makes her unhappy or stressed. but a second cat would be nice- maybe a black one, i love black cats. It's irrational. I mean she is joined to me at the hip and never lacks for attention. In fact the only time she doesnt...
Neighbors outdoor cats are starting to spend much of their time in my yard. digging. urinating. defecating. and spraying.
What are some good deterrents other than dogs and guns?
ants are invading the kitchen... so who has some 'non toxic to cats' ways to eleiminate these little pests. I have used poisons outside but i won't do that indoors.