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Happy Blurfy Firday!

Ugh - I feel like crap - DAMN CAT!

Since I cleaned off all the kitchen counters yesterday, Cat has decided that is where he wants to sleep. I was informed by Sah-son that I need to wash all the utensils in the container on the counter because Cat likes rubbing his face on them.

That is not why he is a DAMN CAT! though.

Just yesterday I was thinking how nice it is that I haven’t seen or heard any signs of mice. The cat hasn’t been acting like there are mice around, and so I was happy.
I woke to the call of the bladder around 3am ish, made my way to the powder room, not turning on any lights so as not to wake the dog because I don’t want to feel the arctic blast that comes in when I open the door to let him out.
I come back into the living room and can’t sleep, so I decided to surf a bit until I felt sleepy.

Then I hear THUD! **CRASH! ** *squeak squeak squeak * from the kitchen. Yes we still have mice, Cat has caught one, and I have no idea why he crashes into things when he catches one but he always does.

Can he kill it in the kitchen? Of course not!
He has to do that in front of me.
So he trots on into the living room, squeaking mouse in mouth and deposits the still live mouse on the rug. The mouse runs, Cat gives chase and loses the damn mouse under the loveseat. Cat manages to catch the mouse again, trots the circle through the kitchen and back into the living room and proceeds to drop the still alive mouse right by MY feet!
Now I am not one of those hysterical cartoon women who scream and jump up on a table at the sight of a mouse, however having one deposited at my feet will get me to to lift my feet off the floor and onto the couch PDQ. Cat, being a mighty (stoopid) hunter catches the mouse again, once again prances the kitchen-living room circle, brings the still alive mouse back into the living room and lets it go AGAIN!
Near as I can tell, being that is was somewhat dark in the living room, the mouse disappeared into the folds of the dog’s blanket. As far as I know, Cat never caught it again. So I probably have what was an escaped half-dead mouse that has crawled somewhere to become a full dead mouse that I will locate either by stepping on it in my bare feet in the dark, or by the smell.

That is why Cat is a DAMN CAT!

The dog slept through it all.

The weather is not behaving much better. It’s 20 degrees outside, cloudy, and looks like it could snow any time. I don’t know if I am going to the party tomorrow because we are supposed to have freezing rain but the temps are supposed to be in the 40s. If it warms up then I am going. I need to put in a grocery order but I don’t know if I should put it in for tomorrow or Sunday.

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The mouse is very lucky to be warm and snug in a blanket instead of outside.
:slight_smile:

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But, **sari **- he was presenting you with a gift!! You give him treats and he merely returned the favor. Ungrateful, aren’t you?? :stuck_out_tongue:

Home, slightly cold, very tired. **FCD **is napping. I’ve got to call my mom and remote into her computer to help her find a file. Guess I’ll get on that now. Then I need to figure out what we’ll do for supper.

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Could the day drag by any slower? Huh? Could it?

Sari This is why we had to take our cat door out. Our cat would bring in live mice or rats and let them get away. Stoopid cat.

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Good morning!

Yesterday ended up being … eventful. While I was at the hospital, hubs was tasked with looking after the kids at home. While I was in seeing the doctor, I had three missed calls from my older daughter, then 10 minutes later I got a call from my father - HRH had called them to say Daddy was asleep, and although she tried to wake him up several times, he just grunted and rolled over back to sleep. Since BabyGirl is only 2, my father told 9yo HRH to take herself and BabyGirl (and HRH’s friend, who was visiting from next door) to my sister, who lives in the main house on our property (we live in the “granny flat”). I called my sister, who said she had sent HRH and her friend next door to the friend’s dad, but she would need to wake hubs soon to hand back BabyGirl, as sis needed to go grocery shopping …

I got home about an hour later, and asked hubs why he was sleeping when he was supposed to be parenting, and he told me HRH “lied”, that he was lying down to get BabyGirl to have a sleep, he just closed his eyes for a minute, and the kids “disappeared” (i.e. he fell asleep). But he insists HRH was lying. I even found the note she wrote for him, which says, “Daddy, This is [BabyGirl] and [HRH]. We have gone to Auntie Michelle’s house. See you when you wake up. Love, [HRH]”. My sister told me when she brought BabyGirl back to the flat, she had to shout several times before hubs answered the door, and when he did answer, he looked like he had just woken up. I’m so pissed off about the whole thing - hubs shouted at HRH and called her a “dirty liar” several times, reducing the kid to tears, when he knows, I know, my sister knows, and HRH knows that he fell asleep, and the whole thing is his fault. We live on a farm, with livestock and an unfenced creek - it’s too damn dangerous to fall asleep and expect a 9yo to care for a 2yo! :mad: I hate to say it, but I’m kind of glad hubs is going home in 3 weeks. At least when I have only myself to rely on, I will know exactly what to expect. :frowning:

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He’s playing with his food. Really. It’s fun when it runs and squeaks. You can try calling cat and praising him (and giving him treats) when he drops the [del]squeaky toy[/del] mouse. You’ll just need to be fast with a broom (to whack it) or bucket (to trap it) before it makes it’s escape.

Practice training Cat to come when you call it now, while it isn’t important, and give him praise and treats (or lots of loving pets) when he does. Then he’s more likely to come when you call him when there’s a rodent involved. Yes, you can train him to do this. I had one cat who came when I whistled. Two of my cats now come when I call their name. My third cat would like to come when I call her, but she’s scared of practically everything else, so Conditions Must be Perfect, or she hides. FWIW, this coming when called thing has been helpful when the cat gets into the garage or someplace I don’t want her.

I think we should have an end-of-year name choosing contest for Cat. Do you have any new pictures you could share or should we just go by the stories? :stuck_out_tongue: I will donate a $25 gift card to the winner. (Amazon or ??)

Movers are gone. We can now park in the garage. We can use the tool bench. We can find all of the tools. :eek: The difficulty is going to be getting the last bits of the kids’ stuff unpacked - 'Beamette’s room looks like it’s been used as a storage locker. With a bit of tidying up, the public areas will be fit for, well, the public and assorted guests.

I do have a completely nasty migraine now though, so I’m cuddled up in bed. I took a painkiller, and we’ll see how it goes. I already used the other meds, so if this doesn’t work it’s either wail into the abyss or visit the ER. Blurf to that.

Hope everyone is having a Happy Firday. Hang in there Butters!

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That’s at least just a mouse. ONe time my cat Attila caught a mouse in the bathroom. I could hear it squeaking from the living room. Then the squeaking started coming down the hall and I though “Oh no, he’s bringing me the mouse!” Then he turned the corner and I saw the mouse flapping it’s wings. It was a bat! I swatted the cat, he dropped his prize and it started flying around the living room, just like in the movies. I got a pillow and finally managed to swat it out of the air. Got an oven mitt, picked it up, and tossed it outside to fly away.

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My “pride” of cats once caught a mole in the house. It was amazing. All three of them, moving together in one furry bundle, swarming through every room in the house, up and down the stairs. That was one motivated mole! The third time the heaving mass swept by my feet, I was able to separate the cats long enough to see what they had. Since it was a mole, I rescued it and put it outside. It promptly started digging under some leaves. We did not meet again. :slight_smile:

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Exploding spiders.

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**Dotty **- sounds like hubs needs a session with a clue-by-four! Calling his own daughter a liar? That’s just wrong. Poor kids…

We wound up going to Red Robin for supper. I ordered broccoli instead of fries and I swear, they brought me a whole head of broccoli!! There was plenty to share with my sweetie, and I did. We had to turn around on the way home - we saw lots and lots of non-moving red tail lights ahead, and rather than join that mass, we retraced our route and turned towards Leonardtown. It was a fairly long detour, but for all I know, we could still be sitting in that mess.

I talked to my mom today and told her that our Christmas present to her would be a new, bigger monitor for her computer. We’ll take her shopping after the holidays and get it set up for her, plus we’ll take her to lunch. So that takes care of that.

Chillage shall ensue for the rest of the evening.

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Pizza was way good! We shall have to purchase those more often. Costs a little more than majik intartoobz pizza but tastes so much better. Not that we will forever eschew majik intartoobz pizza, mind you, it’s just now we add Pubic pizza to our repertoire.

{{{Dotty}}} sorry you had to deal with all that. Sorry HRH Baby Girl had to go through all that as well. Hubs should be in the dawghouse for quite some time over this, IMO.

sunny and Sari I propose we name Cat Safari since he likes big game huntin’ so much. :smiley:

I’s sleepified for some reason but it’s way to early to go to sleep. Can’t stop yawnin’ however.

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Home. Dinner came from a can. And I was so tired it was GREAT! Dishes can wait until Sunday. :slight_smile:

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Huns needs his arse kicked me thinks!!11!!

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Now all caught up. My 480 peeps plus 36 lap babies turned into a cluster fuck. Three or four families showed up late and their designated trains had already left. One couple I gave a refund out of my pocket. She was crying, really boo hooing, real tears. I gave them their ten dollars and she said “I am so sick of military life” and he said "y’all gonna go to HELL for this. Uh no, I am calling the Chaps and report his crazy ass and his wife too. I swear I try so hard to give a $5 tour that is normally $20 and get damned to HELL cause their asses showed up late. I guess Flytrap will be happy about this.

I will not do it again next year.

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And since I use y’all to vent. Hubby has degenerative disc disease in his neck and is due for a colonoscopy.he had to drive to Miami today to see his cardiologist because he needs to be off blood thinners before both procedures. Neck shots on Tuesday and colonoscopy on Firday. Got the all clear to discontinue the blood thinners.

We are due to go to Jawja for wedding so I told hubs to go buy the clothes he needs for wedding. He says he went to the maul but was too busy. So I went online and ordered what he said he wanted to wear; which is Levis, sport coat, white shirt, and black shoes to match the black sport coat. I know his sizes so when I told him I got his clothes, he said and I quote " would you like me to pick out your clothes"? :smack::smack::smack:

This is his only Grandson and his first Grandchild to marry. The plane tickets are bought and paid for. I am trying to do you a favor and I paid for it. If it does not fit it goes back. You can’t be arsed to give a fuck why am I stressing?I give up.

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Someone stole my voice. Probably because I didn’t have much use for it during the day as most of my work communication is emails or online chats, but when I went to the pill pushers and they asked my name, all I could do was croak.

Hard to believe but this is already the last weekend of the Brigadoon Tea Shoppe for 2016. Starting on Sunday night, some enterprising souls will stay late and start disassembling, but the packing will be in full swing on Monday as every last Dickensian morsel has to be loaded out by New Year’s Eve.

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Maybe I’m just mean, but I’d have informed him that he has two good hands and should do it himself instead of ordering his parent around.

I’ve heard it claimed that a cat who does this is trying to teach you how to hunt, like they do with kittens.

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Up, caffeinated, and sheveled. Extra long day today at work.

Dotty, hubs does need a clue-by-four.

{{{{Butters}}}}

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 48 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 77 and cloudy. Rain is predicted for tomorrow and Moanday. We shall see. Today’s plan is the makeage of gumbo for dindin. Six people are showin’ up at five this afternoon and I sorta promised to feed ‘em so I guess I should. Oh and munchies consistin’ of stuffded ‘shrroms and that ol’ southern USofA standby, pepper jelly and cream cheese on crackers. Plus wine. Moanday is men’s night over to the church house so I took a couple ribeyes outta da freezer to thaw. I went to bed early last night thus I am up now. Part of me wants to go back to bed but I know that ain’t happenin’.

{{{Butters}}} I declare you shall have a day of relaxatin’ today.

OK, I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I suppose I should purtify. Foodstuffs will not take that long to make so that’ll be later this afternoon.

Happy Sattidy Y’all!

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I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but I don’t think a colonoscopy is indicated as a treatment for DDD.

:smiley: - sorry, had to do it.
I woke at 4:30 - thanks, bladder - and couldn’t fall back to sleep. TV at that hours is the definition of maximum suckage, so I did Netflix. I’ve been watching this short series called Very British Problems. It’s funny, but rather enlightening. And it helped kill 2 hours. Higgs has been tended to and I’m caffeinating. We’ve got freezing rain, but there’s a warm air mass moving in from the west, and all should melt before too long.

This weekend’s agenda includes such mundanity as laundry and cleaning the critters’ water fountain as well as thinning out the hall closet and making a stab at organizing the green bedroom/walk in storage fiasco. **FCD **said he might need my help with something he has to do with his car. So there may be productivity over the next 2 days. Yay!

Happy Saturday!!