Thor's Day!

Cats throwing up. Yarking is what we call it about here. There is an exact protocol to follow. First, you must yark the nastiest load on the most expensive sofa/chair or rug in the house. Then you must move down the the next level, hardwood floors, tile floors - hide those a bit so the flavor has chance to soak it real good. If a human tries to put a cloth in front of you, give it your best yark show and at the last second, turn your head and yark one inch off the cloth. Extra points for yark they don't find until barefoot coming down the hall one dark and creepy night.

Thor sez: This is not amusing.

Thor sez: Really, I don't talk about your private foibles.

Thor sez: Hmmph. You don't know the half of it. Yarks you never even see. Until I want you to.

It Could Just Be That I'm Insane

I've decided that I want a patio off the back porch. So, of course, I have to do it myself because I can. Here is what it looked like:


This is what I did yesterday:


Next I'll put something down to kill off any grass roots still lurking about. Then I'll have to level the area and put down the pavers. This will probably have to wait until the weekend when I am off work again.

Eventually, I want to get a large arch to put out there and train that jasmine to grow on the arch, not my porch rail. Then I can put a bench or small glider under the arch and have a little hide-away spot.

Good thing is I used what I've learned in yoga while doing the work. So today, instead of my back being out of whack, I'm just horribly sore in the backs of my thighs and arms. And being sore in those spots makes one feel as if they've done themselves some good.

And don't you hate it when guests stop by unexpectedly at dinner time?

I hate to break it to her, but I didn't plant a container garden this year because she and her baby ate everything last year.

And continuing the crazy theme:

Loki sez: For Pete's Sake!

Memorial Day

Outtakes:

Loki Sunday

Loki sez: What? It shrank!

Thor Was Not Amused

With his trip to the vet this afternoon. Not even his real vet, but a stand-by vet (at the Banfield Clinic inside the Super Pets, they were all very nice and the vet really good despite the fact that she was probably about 15 years old).

But that's what you get when you throw up three days in a row. I was pretty sure it was all related to the giant hairball that come up Thursday morning, but looking at a long weekend, you start having thoughts.

Especially with Thor, who chews on things like a dog and has a penchant for eating spiders and rubber bands.

So, I just wanted a vet to look at him and rule out some sort of obstruction.

He is fine. He's already forgiven me for taking him to such a doggy place.

Loki, on the other hand, is still under the couch hissing. Why? I don't know. He's Loki.

Loki sez: He smells like VET!

May I Have a Mini-Jantrum?

"Thanks to DSS, we aren't allowed to discipline our children anymore."

There it is. The motto of lazy parenting.

Newsflash: Discipline means to teach, to train. It does not mean beat.

Stop being lazy and learn how to teach your children what you want them to be.

Loki sez: Doesn't mean the SPCA won't get you for feeding me loaf cat food instead of shredded with gravy.

Thor's Day!

I ought to go out of town more often. Thor has been super love-bug ever since we got back.

FPS Monday

Um, I just had to turn my heat on. I'm under a blanket with a cat on each side and I'm still freezing.

Let's go to the desert.


Canyonlands National Park, Mesa Arch


Arches National Park, Delicate Arch


Real, live (well once live) dinosaur footprint in the middle of freaking no where Utah.


Meditation is natural with such a view. Dead Horse Point State Park.

The view.

Thor sez: Excuse me, but this is Kittens on the Keyboard, not Kanyons on the Keyboard.

Loki Sunday

Loki strikes a pose.

JanetLee Got Run Over by a T. Rex

Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah.

I know it looks goofy, but I can't fake a good scream, I have to actually do it, and screaming in a museum is sort of frowned on. I'm such a method actor.

Home now with two kittens who, once they got some loving, are now giving me the "oh, wait, we're mad at you" routine.

Where in the World is JanetLee, Part 2

Up there. Whale Rock Trail, Canyonlands National Park. My favorite hike of the trip!

Where in the World is JanetLee?

Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, perhaps? Oh, I'm smiling for the camera, but the hike up about did me in. I said every bad word I could remember or make up. Finally, I was reduced to telling myself, "Your ancestors were Vikings! Your ancestors were Vikings!" That got me up the straight out climing up the side of a mountain section.
Coming down was much easier. Except when twisting your ankle on uneven rock and some people find it a photo-op.
Never saw a single one. Nor the mountains lions we were told to fight off if attacked. Sure.

Lovely Friday

Going to see the Charleston Ballet's presentation of The Magical Mystery Tour tonight. We saw it several months ago downtown and they are reprising it for Spoleto.

Officially on vacation now. Will be leaving next week for Utah! Yippee!

Granny is coming to take of the kittens. I like it when she takes care of them because Thor likes her and will come out of hiding to see her.

Loki sez: It isn't that I dislike Granny, it's that you can't prove that she isn't the Fed-Ex driver.

Thor's Day!

Goof ball Thor.

Sad, Pathetic or Lucky?

A friend from work is having surgery in a few weeks. As part of her recovery, she'll have to restrict her activities for several weeks. I told her I'd bring her some books. She gave me a list of what types of books she likes to read.

In less than five minutes, I have filled one box and could easily keep going.

The boyz say: Who needs books? We just watch Cat TV and nap. Gets us through our days.

Independecia!

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

Out-takes:

Lost Monday

Lost in a haze of ativan and fentanyl, that is. Sore arm from an IV about to go bad. Thought about faking a freak out when the small bubble of air went through the IV, but as I work there, thought it best not to be weird (-er than usual).

No, a bubble of air into an IV will not kill you. I don't care how many people were killed that way on Murder She Wrote or Matlock.

But good news all around and I don't have to go see this doctor for another five years. Yippee.

Now that I've given my brain a dose of caffeine after two coffee-less days, I can sort of think again.

Thor sez: Do you think she's still drugged enough to be tricked into a second supper?
Loki sez: Worth a try, look hungry.

Loki Sunday

Loki drama.



Loki sez: But the Fed-Ex driver is going to kill me!!!!!

I am The Procrastination Queen

Really, I could put off breathing. You may call it lazy. I call it enjoying myself.

I saw a Blue Grosbeak a week or so ago. He only hung around for a couple of days so I think he was off looking for a girl friend (or boyfriend if he was a she).

I was reading the Harry Potter series again, but got swept up in the Philippa Gregory The Other Boleyn Girl mania going around at work. I liked it well enough to order a couple more of her books about the exploits of Henry VIII's court. I sort of liked The Boleyn Inheritance as a follow up to some of the characters from The Other Boleyn Girl. I had to put down The Virgin's Lover (about Queen Elizabeth, Henry and Anne Boleyn's daughter) because it was a little too Harlequin romancy for my taste. I'm about three chapters into The Other Queen (about Mary, Queen of Scots) and finding it as good as The Other Boleyn Girl.

For years, I was all about detective novels. Then I stopped reading fiction and was into the socio-political-anthropological non-fiction work. I suppose I'm moving on to historical fiction now.

There are worse things to be doing with my time, I suppose.

Loki sez: And this is one of them.