Where Did The Week Go? And Some Cats

I don't know where this past week went, but it's gone and it's already the first Saturday in May. And it's been HOT here!

Lucy found herself a new perch up in her tree. There is a fork in the branch and she has been sleeping up there with her backside on one branch and her front paws and head on the other. It looks a little precarious to me but she hasn't fallen out yet, maybe she has a little leopard in her or whichever one of the big cats it is that likes to sleep up in trees.

Yesterday afternoon I went shopping with Joe and Elizabeth to the big super Walmart on the other side of town where they got some household things they needed and I got some ink and some bras that I needed. After Walmart we went over to a discount store that Elizabeth had told me about, Falla's, which was like a gold mine of cheap prices! I found a couple of couch pillows for $3.99 each, a new couch cover (aka a quilt in a solid tan) for $20.00 and a new quilt for my bed for $15.00. Both quilts even came with shams, not that we needed pillow shams for the couch, but they do always look nice on a bed. I'm going to go back and look at the clothes, I saw some tops hanging on the wall with signs that said $5.99 so I think they would be worth a further look even if the store is way far away from our house. We would probably have bought even more stuff but apparently this store doesn't believe in shopping carts or they've all been carted away by homeless people because there wasn't a cart to be found and nobody else in the store had one either.

Here is my new quilt, Bear and Mimi think it is very comfortable. It's reversible, too, with black on the backside, black that would show every single cat hair as you can see in the picture of Bear. Tons of cat hair already and the quilt has only been on the bed since yesterday.

There were just the two of them on the bed but not for long. Everyone but Pepper is enjoying it.

I also put together some furniture yesterday. Keith and I had gone to Walmart yesterday morning before Joe and Elizabeth called about going shopping, and I found this writing desk that looked perfect for in my bedroom, perfect for working on instead of a card table. It was only $40.00 and I'm amazed to say that I put it together while Keith sat there and drank beer and 'supervised' by which I mean annoy the heck out of me. There must have been 20 parts to this desk but it came with good instructions and went together in about an hour. Mimi discovered it before I even had a chance to get it into the bedroom. If it's there I will sit on it.

Cats on the Bed

It's unusual for every single one of our indoor cats to be sharing the bed.

Not much room left for any humans and I think they ganged up and planned it that way.

Four Cat Pile Up

We are having our winter fog season where pile ups are a frequent occurence.



My house stinks this morning. Not because of the cats, because I just turned on the self cleaner on the oven and whatever happens during self cleaning stinks up the house. I have the vent fan above the stove going full blast and the kitchen window open but it still stinks. I haven't run the self cleaner since I can't even remember because cleaning the oven is one of those things you don't ever think about doing except when your oven starts to smoke because of all the spilled food in the bottom burning away. Which is what happened the other day and made me remember that the oven hasn't been cleaned in years, probably.

We stunk up the house a different way yesterday. We got a new fancy crock pot for Christmas so have been experimenting with it. Yesterday I put some pork rib things in it with a sauce made out of ketchup and soy sauce and vinegar and brown sugar and stuff and the all day cooking permeated the house with weird soy sauce and vinegar smells. The pork ribs were just okay, nothing to write home about and the recipe was not a keeper, but edible. Keith was trying to sleep in the bedroom last night and had to get up and spray air freshener around because all he could smell was pork and vinegar and soy sauce. Cooking smells really permeate our bedroom and bathroom for some reason.

Speaking of crock pots, I am liking the whole throw the food in and let it cook all day thing, but the part I'm enjoying the best is the plastic crock pot liner bags that we found at Winco. They're made by Reynolds (makers of fine aluminum foil) and are AMAZING! Put the liner in, throw the food in, let it cook all day, and then just throw the liner and all the mess away. NO SCRUBBING!

Well, short break there as all the smoke alarms went off because of the smoke from my self cleaning oven. The cats were all running around in a panic OMG! WHAT'S HAPPENING!?! and I'm running around in a panic opening windows and doors and how the hell do I turn these things off? I had to call Keith at work to find out how to turn them off and find the big ladder out in the garage to get to the smoke alarm in the living room because the ceiling is so high, and I was just barely able to reach it to yank that thing down. I guess we know that our smoke alarms work now.

Well, that was enough excitement for one day and since the smoke alarms are disabled I'll turn the self cleaner back on now.

Comfy?

So, we've got this big huge bed with the new super soft super cushy cat friendly blanket on it and where does Mimi choose to lay?

On your pants!