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dani_meows) wrote2024-12-21 08:41 am
dani_meows) wrote2024-12-21 08:41 am
Babbles with cat pictures
Reading about a terrorist attack and forgetting where exactly your friend lives in that country is such a scary experience! Followed by okay she liked several of my recent stories on instagram so she okay! I hope that's true for everyone she knows!
I heard back from the vet about Mushi's test results part two. Poor old boy has a UTI so he gets antibiotics twice daily. Also talked to him about the fact that Miso's official death was kidney failure after surgery and Jasper and Mushi both got diagnosed this year about the odds of that happening. So he walked me through what happened with Miso and how it was different than Chronic Kidney disease and then why he doesn't feel it's an environmental issue because of the other three cats that live here.
Decided on a lasagna for dinner because with my knee I don't want to spent forever cooking and since I make the Bolganese in the crock pot beforehand it'll be easy to do the rest.
Realized in my post about the year I left out two things that in a normal year would have been big things. This years hurricanes. I live North of Tampa, Florida. So we were hit by Hurricane Helane, where the only problem was due to how long the power was out we had to throw out several hundred dollars worth of food. Then came Milton.
We debated evacuation because Jasper was hit hard by the lack of air conditioning in the summer! We bought some supplies and I reluctantly agreed that it'd be too much to pack all the cats in the car....
Well, the next morning our county added zone C to the mandatory evacuation zone, so my husband left work early and headed home to prep the house while I prepped what we needed to bring. Luckily a few years ago Mum moved from Port Charlotte, FL to Mobile, Alabama and she has a guest room and was willing to accept us.
A normally 8 hour trip took 12 it would have taken us much longer if we hadn't left in the dead of night and I wasn't constantly looking at traffic maps. Okay we want to take the free toll road to this city, and then hit the interstate there... Okay we're at this gas station let's clean up the cat sick. This is how we discovered our four year old Nori gets carsick on longer drives, poor dear. Okay app now says we should avoid i75 all the way up through Gainesville but the road right across the street is a road that goes all the way up through to Georgia and intersects with I-10 what if we we just avoided the first highway all together. Allowing us to continue to see which places have gas... So we drove through the night. Got to Mum's house. Put ourselves and the cats in the guestroom and collapsed to sleep. When we woke up we made dinner for Mum and continued to cook meals for them while we were there because Mum hates cooking and is always grateful to not have to do it!
While there we got to meet Lily! Mum's dog had died a few years ago and she was finally ready to get a new puppy to go with Jack and Annie two rescue small dogs. They look like shiatsu's but aren't. They are sweet old puppies. Lily on the other hand was pure god damned chaos. I love her! She's a chocolate lab mix and was super bitey, and playful.
One of the days we were there Miss Lily made it under the dog gate and darted into the room when Ian opened it while scooping the box. We told her no that she'd regret it while trying to get to her. Nori, who went from the shelter at birth to us at 12 weeks puffed and Jasper went toward Lily claws flying, ready to throw down as usual despite only having one eye.
Luckily no one was harmed and Lily learned that not every animal is as tolerant as her siblings to her shenanigans.
The way home was a different nightmare the county had issued an all clear but there were neighborhoods flooding and our neighborhood has flooded before after a regular rain storm when the city didn't do their job maintaining the drains. One of our neighbors works for the city and has been lighting a fire under them about that at regular intervals.. But we didn't know what we'd see. Also on the way back poor Mushi had a number of accidents. We threw out a cat bed, and a cat carrier after the accidents. One of them helped me accept never having children something I've been struggling with because if I can't handle a cat pooped all over his carrier and himself and needs cleaning once we pull into a rest area how can I be expected to handle baby poops which are more frequent. I went and got fresh air and tried not to throw up while Ian handled cleanup.
Jasper was the MVP of this whole journey. We didn't have enough carriers so we put him in a harness. His previous owners must have harnessed him. He loved being in my arms the whole trip. No fuss. Just a happy little purr baby. He's a nightmare in a carrier now we may know why.
A lot of the homes near us were flooded by the nearby river. My area even made the national news. Luckily besides having to once more throw out groceries we were fine.
Today I'm going to comment, make some more pretties and then I think I might read. I'm still trying to decide if I'm ready to adopt a new cat or not. My heart still hurts.
His memorial picture arrived yesterday. I wanted a better picture for our wall. Looked up how to do cuts again so here have some cat pictures under cuts.
I heard back from the vet about Mushi's test results part two. Poor old boy has a UTI so he gets antibiotics twice daily. Also talked to him about the fact that Miso's official death was kidney failure after surgery and Jasper and Mushi both got diagnosed this year about the odds of that happening. So he walked me through what happened with Miso and how it was different than Chronic Kidney disease and then why he doesn't feel it's an environmental issue because of the other three cats that live here.
Decided on a lasagna for dinner because with my knee I don't want to spent forever cooking and since I make the Bolganese in the crock pot beforehand it'll be easy to do the rest.
Realized in my post about the year I left out two things that in a normal year would have been big things. This years hurricanes. I live North of Tampa, Florida. So we were hit by Hurricane Helane, where the only problem was due to how long the power was out we had to throw out several hundred dollars worth of food. Then came Milton.
We debated evacuation because Jasper was hit hard by the lack of air conditioning in the summer! We bought some supplies and I reluctantly agreed that it'd be too much to pack all the cats in the car....
Well, the next morning our county added zone C to the mandatory evacuation zone, so my husband left work early and headed home to prep the house while I prepped what we needed to bring. Luckily a few years ago Mum moved from Port Charlotte, FL to Mobile, Alabama and she has a guest room and was willing to accept us.
A normally 8 hour trip took 12 it would have taken us much longer if we hadn't left in the dead of night and I wasn't constantly looking at traffic maps. Okay we want to take the free toll road to this city, and then hit the interstate there... Okay we're at this gas station let's clean up the cat sick. This is how we discovered our four year old Nori gets carsick on longer drives, poor dear. Okay app now says we should avoid i75 all the way up through Gainesville but the road right across the street is a road that goes all the way up through to Georgia and intersects with I-10 what if we we just avoided the first highway all together. Allowing us to continue to see which places have gas... So we drove through the night. Got to Mum's house. Put ourselves and the cats in the guestroom and collapsed to sleep. When we woke up we made dinner for Mum and continued to cook meals for them while we were there because Mum hates cooking and is always grateful to not have to do it!
While there we got to meet Lily! Mum's dog had died a few years ago and she was finally ready to get a new puppy to go with Jack and Annie two rescue small dogs. They look like shiatsu's but aren't. They are sweet old puppies. Lily on the other hand was pure god damned chaos. I love her! She's a chocolate lab mix and was super bitey, and playful.
One of the days we were there Miss Lily made it under the dog gate and darted into the room when Ian opened it while scooping the box. We told her no that she'd regret it while trying to get to her. Nori, who went from the shelter at birth to us at 12 weeks puffed and Jasper went toward Lily claws flying, ready to throw down as usual despite only having one eye.
Luckily no one was harmed and Lily learned that not every animal is as tolerant as her siblings to her shenanigans.
The way home was a different nightmare the county had issued an all clear but there were neighborhoods flooding and our neighborhood has flooded before after a regular rain storm when the city didn't do their job maintaining the drains. One of our neighbors works for the city and has been lighting a fire under them about that at regular intervals.. But we didn't know what we'd see. Also on the way back poor Mushi had a number of accidents. We threw out a cat bed, and a cat carrier after the accidents. One of them helped me accept never having children something I've been struggling with because if I can't handle a cat pooped all over his carrier and himself and needs cleaning once we pull into a rest area how can I be expected to handle baby poops which are more frequent. I went and got fresh air and tried not to throw up while Ian handled cleanup.
Jasper was the MVP of this whole journey. We didn't have enough carriers so we put him in a harness. His previous owners must have harnessed him. He loved being in my arms the whole trip. No fuss. Just a happy little purr baby. He's a nightmare in a carrier now we may know why.
A lot of the homes near us were flooded by the nearby river. My area even made the national news. Luckily besides having to once more throw out groceries we were fine.
Today I'm going to comment, make some more pretties and then I think I might read. I'm still trying to decide if I'm ready to adopt a new cat or not. My heart still hurts.
His memorial picture arrived yesterday. I wanted a better picture for our wall. Looked up how to do cuts again so here have some cat pictures under cuts.
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Glad you had somewhere to escape to during the hurricane but that does sound like a rough trip with the animals.
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It was a rough trip but I was thankful we had somewhere to go!
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And then I found a video about influencers that chose not to evacuate - I'll never understand some peopleChristmas Markets here draw a lot of tourists (depending on size, prestige and who knows what else) and we have the tradition to go for a weekend trip to one every year. Or well, larger cities tend to have multiple ones and we tend to pick places where we have plenty to see for all of Saturday and part of Friday before going home on Sunday. This year it was Hamburg. The risk is certainly on my mind as the news does talk about the measures that get taken to try and prevent something happening again. Sadly, nothing ever is foolproof.
The pictures look really lovely. Makes me want to have a cat myself - I'm just not confident I'd be up for everything involved in caring for a pet (of any kind) and until I am, it's going to need to be a no for me. I will admit, I'm living the pet owner life through the people I know instead :)
I hope next year won't be filled with as many stressful and emotional (in a negative way) things for you!
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I operate on a simple rule. Is the evacuation mandatory? This time was the first time I was under a mandatory evacuation so thus it was the first time I evacuated. Also after the evacuation you have no idea how your house and all your possession are doing! That part was very stressful. Hoping I didn't see my house on the news in a bad way.
Hopefully they can keep copycats from doing anything so people get to enjoy Christmas markets. I'm not sure when I'd schedule my dream trip to Germany. Both Christmas and Oktoberfest look like fun and I doubt I'd conquer my fear of flying more than once.
I highly recommend having cats. But! I recommend getting two adult cats that get along as they are more of a starter cat that way and you want at least two because they need companions or they get lonely. The biggest trick is litter box maintenance and feeding them. Special diets can smell very potent and that takes getting used to. They also need time to play. I don't recommend kittens as with adult cats you get their full personality kittens on the other hand they grow into their personalities and may become more or less rambunctious. You could always see if there are shelters that need volunteers. I know here we're always looking for fosters and people who will take care of kittens! That way you could see if cat ownership is for you, lol!
Here's hoping! Hope you have a good year too!
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According to the news, they think the guy worked alone. So, hopefully nothing else happens this year and new concepts are created for the future. I've been to Oktoberfest once - during the day - and that was plenty for me. I've gone to a similar event in a different city with the last company I worked for (probably nearly a decade ago no) and it was okay. I had a lot of fun following the twitter account of the Munich Police Department though (at least I think it was the local department and not the state department) as they had one 24 hour period when they kept a constant report about things they were called for in a rather amusing fashion - at times in the Bavarian dialect. All without revealing too much about anyone involved. The Christmas Markets can be equally crowded though depending on when you go (e.g. weekends)
Every now and then I look for shelters that need volunteers. Primarily were I'd go to the shelter to volunteer to start gaining experience, but so far I haven't found one close enough for what I'm willing to travel or the time needed since it needs to fit around my work schedule. One day I'll figure something out :)
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Glad that he worked alone! And hopefully no one else feels inspired to do the same crime! I know when we have shootings sometimes people feel inspired to do another one for getting attention! That sounds funny! I know it's fun to read about the shenanigans Floridians and Tourists get up to during Gasparilla (city of Tampa gets "invaded" by pirates...)
I lean towards Christmas Markets simply because I love mulled wine way more than I like beer. And if it serves Stollen like the Cherry one I bought from Aldi's last week I might eat my body weight in cake.
Here's hoping. ^_^
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I don't like beer at all and much prefer the offered beverages on Christmas Markets. They have a variety of mulled wine (the standard red, plenty have a white one, and some blueberry, cherry or I don't know what else) and even hot chocolate with a shot of rum or amaretto.
I'm not sure if I've ever seen a cherry Stollen, but Christmas Markets have plenty of good food - some available all over Germany and some local favourites. I've seen a couple of youtube videos of people trying food and drinks available on Christmas Markets. I love "Gebrannte Mandeln" which are candied almonds - especially if they're still warm.