Well you gotta do what you gotta do. When it's 120 in the shade in the summer, who wants to be doing yardwork, right? That's why we don't have dogs anymore. We didn't want to have to have a big backyard to maintain with grass for them to play fetch, potty, etc. When we lived in Southern California, we had all that, and DH spent his entire weekends on landscaping. It looked great, but he wanted some free time once we relocated.
I know what you mean by the rip-off part. The city tried charge us back fees for sewage usage when we're county and have a septic tank. We're not even on the city sewage grid; it's not even an option where we live! (Lotta farms out this way--another reason I thought the kitties'd be safe as indoor/outdoor cats.)
But it's a DRY heat
Yeah, but it's a dry heat...Someone had to say it. I grew up in the Midwest with humidity. I'll take the desert over that any time.
It makes me miserable. And my last foray east cost me a fortune in hair products. I live above 6000 feet in dry thin air and feel wonderful.
My other personal favorite is the yearly lecture in the Southwest about water conservation. I mean have we really overrated flushing the toilet ? Only to hear that the city has approved the building of another 10,000 homes to be connected to city services. I live I the country and it doesn't effect me. My xeroscape is the natural desert.
To each their own. I grew up in the humidity (and for some reason my hair only tends to frizz in out of season chill weather--which I don't question, because I'm kind of afraid to know why), so I'm more comfortable in humidity. When I visited a relative in a drier climate, I thought for sure I was coming down with something because my throat always felt dry and I was thirsty all the time.
Our local library has a bulletin board for FIV+ kitties that need homes or were recently adopted by people who had no idea that their cats were FIV+. (The shelter has a new manager now, so that doesn't happen as often as it used to.) I don't know a lot about FIV+ cats myself, so please update us on the info you're learning.
This shelter adopts FIV+ cats out as what they call "permanent fosters" which means that they pay for all of the FIV related vet care as long as people bring the cats in to the shelter vet. People who adopt have to spend a long time talking back and forth with the shelter so that everyone knows what they are getting into. Most FIV cats do well in an indoor home. As far as I know, they're still not adopting cats out to people with other cats that aren't FIV+ just for liability reasons. This means I won't end up taking all of the kitties home. It's a win win.
To each their own. I grew up in the humidity (and for some reason my hair only tends to frizz in out of season chill weather--which I don't question, because I'm kind of afraid to know why), so I'm more comfortable in humidity. When I visited a relative in a drier climate, I thought for sure I was coming down with something because my throat always felt dry and I was thirsty all the time.
Our local library has a bulletin board for FIV+ kitties that need homes or were recently adopted by people who had no idea that their cats were FIV+. (The shelter has a new manager now, so that doesn't happen as often as it used to.) I don't know a lot about FIV+ cats myself, so please update us on the info you're learning.
Poor Angua! Our cats have similar reactions when we bring in cat food (which is never at feeding time, to their consternation)
Glad to hear it.
Glad to hear it.
Changing the subject I've been struggling trying to bake a cake for AWM's birthday (despite it being the 21st we're celebrating the 22nd), and I just realized that I forgot to turn on the oven.Maybe now it will cook.
For some reason, I also read it this way the first time. Must not be awake enough when I read the 21st and 22nd.
Glad I'm not the only person who does stuff like that.Also, I was sitting puzzling out how your mom could be celebrating a 21st or 22nd birthday!Then I realised you were referring to date not age. Might have been influenced by my having been out lastnight for my youngest nephew's 21st, on the 21st.Or, I'm stupid.
oh my! I bet your mom was pretty upset-did the house smell like burnt chocolate? What a pain in the butt that must be. I didnt know that about eggs..I only know eggs hold meat together to make meatballs but not about baking.
Glad I'm not the only person who does stuff like that.Also, I was sitting puzzling out how your mom could be celebrating a 21st or 22nd birthday!Then I realised you were referring to date not age. Might have been influenced by my having been out lastnight for my youngest nephew's 21st, on the 21st.Or, I'm stupid.
One of my birthdays I went home to my mom's with a friend, my mom went out and left the pair of us baking an enormous chocolate brownie which had a tonne of ground almonds and chopped walnuts in so pretty expensive recipe... Being 'us' and not really concentrating we forgot to add the eggs to the mix. Much to my mom's displeasure we had a very messy lesson on what eggs do for cake..... It rose up in the tray and then flowed over the sides like molten lava on to the bottom of the oven.It tasted fab' but the whole thing was more of a sticky chocolate / nut mess. I don't think my mom's ever forgiven us.
Wow! That is quite something. Both my cats are microchipped I'm glad to say. Having just one more possible way to get them back is very important!
Baking soda is also important, especially in cookies. It's not as spectacular as what happened with your chocolate/nut mess, but it does get hard to eat when it cools. (Forgot it once in a chocolate-chip recipe.) Out of curiosity, how did you get the mess up?
Glad I'm not the only person who does stuff like that.Also, I was sitting puzzling out how your mom could be celebrating a 21st or 22nd birthday!Then I realised you were referring to date not age. Might have been influenced by my having been out lastnight for my youngest nephew's 21st, on the 21st.Or, I'm stupid.
One of my birthdays I went home to my mom's with a friend, my mom went out and left the pair of us baking an enormous chocolate brownie which had a tonne of ground almonds and chopped walnuts in so pretty expensive recipe... Being 'us' and not really concentrating we forgot to add the eggs to the mix. Much to my mom's displeasure we had a very messy lesson on what eggs do for cake..... It rose up in the tray and then flowed over the sides like molten lava on to the bottom of the oven.It tasted fab' but the whole thing was more of a sticky chocolate / nut mess. I don't think my mom's ever forgiven us.
Hearing that there's a place like that really makes me happy. That's so awesome. Good for you for doing that too. I did my good deed for the week today - volunteered at the SPCA's feral cat spay and neuter clinic. Sort of a low turnout today, only 65 cats. But hey, that's still a lot of unwanted kittens we prevented!
Are the cookies really hard or soft without the baking soda @Tallyollyopia ? Hee hee, as my mom is a 'good' person and keeps her oven very clean we scraped up the gooey mess from the metal sheet on the bottom and snacked on that goo as well as the stuff from the cake tin. It was more chocolate sauce than anything else though and it wouldn't keep.
