tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88324758093136045542012-02-16T11:59:44.656-07:00Cats. Horticulture. More Cats. Life is Good.KittyChair Designshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12074185149049588106noreply@blogger.comBlogger1621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832475809313604554.post-51194970501905649352012-01-30T18:23:00.005-07:002012-01-31T08:12:06.126-07:00

There should really be some photos to go with this post, but there just aren't. We will proceed anyway.Instead of sharing the long, boring story with you, let me just say that I went on a little redecorating/rearranging binge recently. My office/studio and my sewing room have changed places and I'm finally able to get the rest of my sewing stuff out of the basement where it has been residing

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Please join me in wishing my wonderful parents the very happiest of anniversaries!!!...Even if there has obviously been some kind of mistake in the record-keeping because I clearly cannot be old enough to have parents who are today celebrating their 44th wedding anniversary. Unless maybe they were married for a good 10 years or so before I came along - maybe I'd allow it then. (Unfortunately,

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Well, that's not strictly true. I've been debating for several months whether to get back to the blog or just let it go. For the time being, I've decided to post a little here and there to get the feel of it back, and then see how it goes. My other blog will be going away soon, since the project it was designed to chronicle has fizzled out. (We now have one upstairs-only cat and two

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We are sad to report that Hubbard, aka the Big Acoustic Kitty, left us on Thursday afternoon. He was with us for almost 12 and a half years, and while we know that all kitties are irreplaceable, Hubb was even more 1-of-a-kind than most.His ongoing battles with age and disease have been documented here, but in recent weeks his decline became more rapid, and it was obvious that any further

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Have you talked to your kitties about the dangers of 'nip?Little Grey Kitty decided that since his humans were too busy to attend to his recreational herbage needs this morning, he was going to help himself to the catnip bag. Which would have been fine, except that someone (me) had left the bag on top of a rather unstable CD rack. Down came the bag, along with the rack and about 100 or so CDs.

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I have 1 final exam, 1 semester project (that I'm horribly behind on), 1 assignment and 1 quiz between me and the end of my very last semester in school. Technically, I won't graduate until August, but since it's taken me about 20 years to finish this degree, what's a few extra months?There are kitty updates, horticultural updates, and just some general life updates I've been meaning to post,

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I'll skip the backstory and cut right to the chase:This afternoon, The Amazing Husbandini and I found ourselves hurtling down the interstate to the vet's office, with Big Acoustic Kitty drifting in and out of consciousness in the carrier in the back. Not many minutes earlier, we'd heard odd noises coming from the bedroom and found BAK stretched out on the floor next to his food dish in a limp,

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... since I know that explosive, bloody sneezes are not the kind of thing you just mention once and then abandon forever.Big Acoustic Kitty has decided that I am the most horrible person on the entire planet for making him take his nasty liver-flavored antibiotics twice a day for the better part of two weeks. He's back to rushing underneath the bed whenever I come in to the room. However, since

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We've been having some problems the past couple of days."Snoorrrff?"Big Acoustic Kitty has been taking his meals in his suite recently, after being startled a few too many times by Big Yellow Hallway Monster in the main floor dining area. When I took BAK's dinner up to him on Saturday, his nose was noticeably red. The light in the bedroom is fairly dim, so I leaned in to get a better look (as

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I'm an intermittent thrift-store junkie, so several years ago when I found out that Goodwill had gone online, I was thrilled. If I had a dollar for every hour I've spent on that site...Anywho. There's an auction going on right now that I am increasingly tempted to wade into. You can view it here. If you can't figure out why I'm a sucker for this particular listing, just look at the detail

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"3 Out Of 4 Felines Count Their Blessings And Go Back To Sleep."Yes, that's right ... somebody's been put to work, and that somebody would be this guy:Little Grey Kitteh has been appointed to the position of "office cat". This position will allow him to fully realize his napping, cuddling and paper-throwing-on-the-floor talents, as well as allowing his humans to pretend that at least one of The

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This morning I got up early(ish) and set out to run some holiday errands. While the early start did help me avoid some of the usual crush, by the time I'd visited three different stores and dealt with cranky clerks, rude customers, whiny children, ugly traffic and some of the worst Christmas music ever, I was most definitely In. A. Mood. I was thinking decidedly un-jolly thoughts about the

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Nothing like finding out about this stuff at the last minute!Please go here today and vote for "Pets Forever". (It's option #1) The voting ends tonight!!!You can read about the program on their website, here, but the gist of it is that the Pets Forever program matches veterinary students at Colorado State University with elderly, low-income and disabled pet owners so that the owners are able to

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I just felt like saying, what with the holiday season in full swing and all, that I am one of the very few people in this world who lacks the necessary gene for overdosing on "Feliz Navidad". It's not Christmas for me until I've heard that song 70 or 80 times. It puts me in a happy, Christmas-y mood each and every time I hear it - no matter how many times I might hear it in any given day.That

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...We brought this guy home from the shelter:"Presents? Catnip mousie? How about a little tribute for the A-Day boy?"He was huge, he was stinky, he had goo coming out of his eyes and he made weird wheezing noises. He hid under the coffee table that first night, coming out only when we put the new litter box where he could see it. Then he made a beeline for it and kicked scoopable kitty litter

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Big Yellow Hallway Monster went off to the vet this morning with all 20 teeth. He came home with only 13. Other than some residual loopy-ness from the anesthesia and the pain meds, he's doing pretty well - but he has taken up residence in a dark corner of the basement, under the watchful eye of (surprisingly) Miss Electric Mayhem. More details to come.

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I'm a day late in wishing Happy Adoption Day to our newest troublemakers, Little Grey Kitteh and Big Yellow Hallway Monster!(Shown here in less-antagonistic times)Here's hoping that (the aggression issues will get better and everyone will stop trying to kill each other and will stop peeing all over the damn house and) we'll all have many more Adoption Days to celebrate together!

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If you find yourself dealing with kitty-piddle issues in your house, you will probably come across advice that suggests you invest in a black light** to more easily locate (and then eradicate) said kitty-piddle locations.It's good advice. However ...As someone who finds herself the owner of a 35+ year old house that was previously home to (at least) one aged cat and two elderly dogs, I must add

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Because I don't have enough to do with my days (ha!) I decided to start a 2nd blog. The new one is very cat-specific (because I can't ever find time to squeeze any information about the kitties into this blog) and will hopefully be of limited duration.The Great Cat Reclamation Project is its name, and while there's only one post up there at the moment, more will be coming soon.

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To borrow a phrase of my mother's - how in the billy blue blazes did it get to be halfway through September already?That is all. More kitty updates soon.

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This is what always seems to happen whenever I try to take video of our kittehs.And of course, the real reason we'll never have a reality show.I hadn't visited the "Heart of the City" site for quite a while, so I'm glad I thought to pop in there today.

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The Big Yellow Hallway Monster and I just got home from the vet. Crystals in our urine ... we haz them. (Well, HE has them. As far as we know, I'm fine.) So now BYHM has a new stash of canned food that's just for him, and he's going to get to eat fishy pudding twice a day instead of just once. Gotta thin out all that nastiness in our little urinary tract, dontcha know. We also have a new

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Where did the summer go? School starts up again Monday, and I'm not terribly pleased about it. I seem to recall something about getting a little bit of a vacation this summer ... ha! Here it is the middle of August, and I haven't even managed to get to a single baseball game yet. (And since it's painfully obvious that the Rockies aren't heading anywhere near the playoffs this year, time's

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Dear Customer;Yes, that's right - when the wind is threatening to rip the shade cloth off the hoop houses and fling it into Kansas and the city's tornado sirens are going off and the store manager is in the nursery telling the employees to get inside because a funnel cloud has been spotted nearby, I most certainly will abandon you in mid-conversation.By the way, I don't get paid on commission,

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Adopted July 11, 2008Crossed the Rainbow Bridge August 5, 2009Ziggy, you are forever in our hearts.

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... we here at Kitty Chair are going on a crash course in TNR. (That's "Trap, Neuter, Release", for anyone unfamiliar with the initials.) See, we just discovered that we have kittens. Three of them, to be exact. And one rather youngish mama kitty.Ever since we moved in last August, we've been aware that our back yard - along with the backyard of the abandoned house right behind ours - is a

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Happy Adoption Day, Ziggy-Bean. We still miss you.

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Customer: Do you have any sage?Me: Yes, we do. Are you looking for the herb or the shrub?Customer: Well, whatever one they use for cleaning.Me: Cleaning?Customer's Husband: She means 'cleansing'.Customer: I just got a new job and the lady who had the office before me died. I want a plant for my office that will cleanse it.Me: ...Customer: These will grow under florescent lights, right?I

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On Friday, the sign near the time clock read, "Free Kittens!" It then went on to explain that our store manager had rescued some semi-feral kittens and they needed homes. It suggested that they would probably make good barn cats."Hmm," I said to myself. "I hope she finds good homes for them."This morning, the sign near the time clock read, "Free Kittens!" It then went on to explain that the

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In order to function properly lately, I've needed to make sure that I get my daily dose of fuzz-therapy. Luckily, I have four very ready sources of same. And because I know that life often hands us all a bit more than we're really comfortable with, here are some photos of "The Horde" to help things along.First, we have The Big Acoustic Kitty, relaxing in the afternoon sunbeam that comes through

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Today, a woman came wandering into the nursery where I work, asking to speak to someone about nut trees. After informing her that we don't carry any kind of nut trees - and much discussion regarding why that is* - she asked if we had any other suggestions for her. (At this point, I must ask you to keep in mind that this conversation occured at the end of a very long day, and all I wanted was to

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16.5 is what showed up on the bathroom scale the other morning when the Big Yellow Hallway Monster* stepped on it. The late and still-lamented Ziggy topped out at 17. Considering the way he eats, I think BYHM may break that record.9.9 is what Big Acoustic Kitty weighed in at during yesterday's vet visit. That's quite a bit down from the 14-ish pounds that he weighed during his prime. But

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Thank God and Greyhound, spring semester is over and done with. I haven't been this happy to see summer vacation since ... well, grade school, probably. Burnout has been setting in, and dragging myself over the finish line this semester was a pretty tall order. But, I'm looking at three months of no classes and no 50-mile round trip to campus three days a week and I'm much happier.I believe I

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Erg. I'm still all oogie-feeling over this one. And while I take full responsibility for what happened, I still place some of the blame on the vet. And my mother.See, back when Mr. Big Acoustic Kitty was first starting on his whole diabetes rollercoaster, he had developed some serious grooming issues. His poor orange fur was just matting up something awful, and he couldn't/wouldn't do

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Okay, let's get this out of the way first: Big Acoustic Kitty continues to enjoy not being at the vet (he made it very plain that he was thrilled to be home with us, and has continued the cuddle-fest for the past week) and is now back up to 1 unit of insulin, 2X per day. We're hoping things continue to be calm for a good long while. Many heartfelt thanks for all the good wishes that came in

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Big Acoustic Kitty is home and very happy about it, thankyouverymuch. It's a long story and we've got a busy day ahead of us (including a trip to our regular vet for yet more blood work) but the gist of it is that they're pretty sure his diabetes has gone into remission and this pancreatitis is on the way out, and it was all his medicine that caused the problem.(And I've discovered that "mother

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It's a long story, and one I'm not really up to going into right now. Suffice it to say that Big Acoustic Kitty is in the hospital overnight for dangerously low blood sugar, and we have a feeling that we may be looking at the end of our time with him.Prayers and/or good wishes for him would be appreciated, but please just help us ask for whatever is best for him. He's somewhere between 14 and

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Big Acoustic Kitty: Smells better, peeing outside the box much less, but a bit gimpy since they took him off of his arthritis medicine for a while.Electric Mayhem: Terribly put-upon by those evil newcomer cats.Thing One: Oy, veh is mir. He's the cat who won't shut up. Ever.Thing Two: Turning into a real cuddle-bug. Occasionally needs some "alone time", away from Thing One.School: Busy.

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Please come out from under the bed. Please? I have a whole new bag of kitty treats, and I promise you can wallow in them if you'll just come out from under the bed and let me give you your insulin.I know, it's getting close to bedtime and you know that means I probably have that nasty pill to give you, all crushed up in some chicken broth. I know you hate it, but it gives you an appetite and

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Better late than never, right? If there's anyone out there who shares my complete and utter disinterest in football and isn't aware that there is a cute n' fuzzy option out there, please hie yourself over to Animal Planet's website and check out all the info on tomorrow's broadcast of Puppy Bowl VI. This year there will not only be the All-Kitten Halftime Show, but also hamsters flying the blimp

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Thing One found himself a sunbeam this morning. You should have heard the purrs.

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Where the heck did my semester break go? Spring semester started this week, and I am completely uninterested in taking part. I'm a very hands-on type of learner, and I feel like I need a break from all my classroom time. But, since the horticulture season is still not quite ready to wind up, that means jobs are few and far between, so I might as well be in class. I suppose.In completely

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Now that the New Year has been ushered in, it's time to start planning the garden! Keeping in mind the fact that the motto of Colorado gardeners is something along the lines of, "Well, there's always next year," I am attempting to keep a tight rein on myself and NOT overhaul every bit of yard in one season. Not only can we not afford it, but that would just send me right straight in to the

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Even though I was brought up here in the States, I have always preferred the more British "Happy Christmas" to "Merry Christmas". So here's hoping you and yours have a very Happy Christmas filled with food and friends and family and felines (or canines, if that's your thing.)

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Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't want to talk about the cats anymore. For a while, anyway. I'm swimming in kitty news and updates and status checks here in my everyday life, and I've come to the point where I just don't feel like relating any more of it. However, I will say this much for those who are concerned - Big Acoustic Kitty seems to be responding well to his insulin and does

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For those of you waiting to hear the news about The Big Acoustic Kitty, I apologize. Computer problems and an over-busy schedule have kept me from posting for the past few days. Turns out that the diagnosis on BAK is diabetes with a side order of pancreatitis. His kidney function is normal, as is his liver, thyroid and a bunch of other bits that escape me at the moment. So, The Amazing

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Here's a picture of his handsome self - just because:Well, we decided to do a little "wait and see" on the outside-the-box piddling issues, just in case it was stress-induced. Once "the horde" was kept downstairs and he had some time to relax, that problem seemed to resolve itself. So that was good news. However, we had been noticing an increase in his water consumption and subsequent "output"

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Well, it's now about 5 1/2 hours since my last post, and we've had another "incident". Unfortunately, this time there's no doubt that the culprit is the Big Acoustic Kitty. I got up and discovered that the bathroom mat was all rumpled, and when I went to put it back, it was all wet on one end.I realize that it's about 4:30 in the morning and I'm tired and I'm stressed and I don't feel very good

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I just colored for 6+ hours, straight. I don't think my fingers will ever uncramp. Nor do I think this knot is ever coming out of my shoulder muscles.Yes, I said "colored". Yes, I am an adult. Yes, the coloring was for one of my semester projects. Luckily, my coloring skills were perfected at a very young age, so the re-learning curve was negligible. In other news, we had a bit of a litter

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(Disclaimer: I haven't a clue what's going on with the font here today. Just bear with me.)Here it is, the last Thursday of the semester. (For me, anyway.) Tomorrow through next Wednesday will be spent busting my hump to get through semester projects and their respective presentations and the two “stick and twig” finals in my plant ID classes. By all rights, I should probably be spending

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School's out for a week and the Thanksgiving holiday approacheth. There's no time the present for a random sampling of kitty pictures. Enjoy!"Don't let my age and overall adorableness fool you. I will open this other eye and laser off your face if you don't leave me alone.""Come closer, pink monkey. Do not try to resist the power of the tummy..."(We call this her "sea anemone" pose.)"First,

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Since most of the people who read this blog are friends, family or folks who found their way here via The Amazing Husbandni's blog, this will not be news to anyone. However, I would be terribly remiss if I didn't immortalize recent events here on KittyChair.Introducing "Da Boyz":(No, not the best photo. Don't worry, just keep scrolling.)These are the two newest members of our little clan, Thing

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I've spent the past four days working on a post, and obviously it's going to stretch to at least five before I get it done. But I wanted to make sure I took a moment to wish everyone in Weblandia a very Happy Halloween!(Image borrowed from this site, which has several cute kitty items for sale.)

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The Denver Dumb Friends League is having a cat sale*. Through the end of October, they have reduced their adoption fees to $25 for cats 1 year of age and older, and if you adopt two cats in that age group, they will waive the adoption fee for the second cat.Oh, dear.I'm standing my ground on the whole "we're not adopting anybody until after I get back from my trip" issue. But after I get home,

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"...to bear a cat is to be abused."Yes, I know that's not really what she said.The frost is on the pumpkin, the leaves are rapidly abandoning their posts, and the Big Acoustic Kitty has decided that the time has come to assume the "catloaf" position as often as possible. He has also decided that his favorite spot is right in the middle of my desk chair. As soon as I sit down and get the chair

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For those of you who haven't heard, The Electric Mayhem went in to the vet yesterday for her second FIV/FeLV test, and she came up negative once again. So both kitties are in the clear on that front.As an interesting side note, (well, it was interesting to me, anyway) each of the cats has a distinct preference in radio selections for their trips to the vet. The Big Acoustic Kitty prefers to

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We lost Ziggy two months ago today. Some days I can putter along just fine, and some days I just cry all over the kitties. I won't go into a lot of detail, but it's become pretty obvious that all the emotions that had to be set aside for a while in order to get through the move and everything else that has gone on recently are now coming to the surface and need to be dealt with. It's not

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I don't know where to begin. There's no way to break this to anyone gently, so I'm just going to come right out with it. Are you sitting down? Not only did I have to go to the vet yesterday, but ... they shaved me. Down there. I tried to tell them that I'd already been "fixed" (and what a stupid euphemism that is ... nothing was "broken" to begin with) but they wouldn't listen. They just

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With this semester being such a pain in the butt, it's very easy to just write about the cats (and the lingering kitty-shaped hole in our hearts.) However, today I do have a plant-related post to share with you. Since today is Thursday, and Thursdays are now "reserved" for goofing off and general mental decompression, I finally wandered up the road to the little garden center by the new house.

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A week or two ago, while surfing kitty sites and missing Ziggy, I suddenly became aware of the sound of footsteps ... on the roof. After a minor freakout (should I run out in my pj's, swinging the baseball bat before or after I dial 911?) I determined that it was just the inspector from the city, checking out the new roof. (Guys? It's called a doorbell. Next time, please use it.)Today, while

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I'm late in posting this, but if you are in need of some kitties, or if you know someone who is, and you (or they) live in the Baltimore area, won't you please consider Colston and Ashton? They are big, beautiful boys who are going to lose their loving home through no fault of their own. Their human mom is trying so very hard to find them a loving home, and I'm just doing my little bit to help.

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Just a quick post today, as I'm woefully behind in my homework. However, there's someone I've been meaning to introduce my tiny corner of the internet to:This is Gus. Or Gustav, if we want to be formal. He is what is known in our house as a FOTZ, or "Friend of The Ziggy". Gus, alas, does not live in our house. Gus currently lives all the way over in Baltimore, and the odds are good that his

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They've done it to me again. What exactly was wrong with the last place we were living, may I ask? I had a nice sunbeam in my window every morning, a high-up spot with a second water dish, and lots of places to hide that smelled like me.And I did NOT appreciate that week I had to spend at the vet. (Mama tells me it was less than a day, but what does she know?) Those people didn't even let me

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I'm finding myself worrying about leaving Ziggy behind. I can see and feel him so clearly in every part of this house, and I worry about losing that when we're in the new one. Because of this, a few items originally destined for the charity pile have been reclaimed, due to their importance to our Ziggy. Regardless of the tattered and torn upholstery, the pink 1930s armchair and ottoman will be

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From the Amazing Husbandini's BlackBerry. Ziggy's fur always smelled so good, I didn't mind having my nose in his armpit.

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Friends and family who frequent this blog already know what's happened. I'm not yet up to writing about him, but this morning I needed to at least get his photo up.For those who are new here, this is a photo of our beloved Ziggy. In previous posts, he is referred to as Mr. TBD and Cosmo. We adopted him on July 11, 2008, and he passed away on August 5, 2009. He was three years old. He died of

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...of writing out our very last rent check, I went online and sent some money to our local jazz station. Got my name read on the air and everything. :-)Most of the public radio folks are doing pledge drives right now, so if you have a couple of bucks to spare, why not send some to them?This was my public service announcement for the day. Regular programming will resume with the next post.

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I didn't mean to set off a cat-related panic yesterday. The trip to the vet went well, and it turns out that the Big Acoustic Kitty's hips seem to be fine, but there is a slight "thickening" in his knees - most likely arthritis of some variety. So he's on a one -week course of anti-inflammatories, and if they do a good job for him, we will probably put him on a permanent low-dosage regimen of

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Since the cat is now out of the bag to our landlord, I can spill the beans here ... our big project for this summer has turned out to be buying our first house. (Why yes, I do like a good mixed metaphor!) If you want the latest scoop on that, you're reading the wrong spouse's blog. Go here, instead. To me, the whole process is way too much "hurry up and wait" - and to quote Inigo Montoya, "I

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Wow, this summer got crazy busy. And not with anything I had really been planning on. Yes, I'm still gardening, taking classes, doing artwork (seriously!) and taking photos of the kitties. But, there's one overwhelming project that has taken over most of my (our) time, and until that's under control sometime in mid-September, don't expect to hear much from me. However, before I go ... in light

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Warning: Rant Ahead.At the risk of sounding like Bob Barker, how goddamn hard is it to spay or neuter your pets??? Call around and find a group willing to do it for what you can afford to pay ... they're certainly out there.Yeah, I know...the economy sucks right now. Guess what? We're getting by on one income, and the three holy terrors we live with are STILL livin' high off the hog. And if,

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Last night over dinner, I was trying to explain to The Amazing Husbandini how I was feeling in the area of art creation. I thought that I might repeat my explanation here, but I'm not sure how successful I'll be; I can't seem to speak coherently without excessive hand gesturing, and that doesn't translate well into a blog post.In the 10-ish years I was a cubicle troll for various companies, I

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We didn't stay out quite long enough to miss all of the neighbors' party yesterday, but we missed most of it, and a lovely thunderstorm wrapped things up early for them.We drove into Aurora and saw Star Trek at the Movie Tavern. Since it's been out for a bit and probably everyone who is going to see it has already done so, I won't bother with giving you a detailed review of it. Suffice it to

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The Amazing Husbandini is sleeping in this morning. He was up doing God-knows-what until 4:00 a.m., only to be awakened at about 5:30 a.m. by a certain furry someone coughing up a big, juicy hairball in the middle of the bed. After the sheets were changed, I decided to just let him sleep for as long as he wanted.However...he's gotta get up soon, because things are about to get ugly.Our next

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I have photos from our trip that I want to post. The problem is that once we get home, the camera, the memory card and all of those lovely photos disappear into "the lair" downstairs. My only recourse is to make repeated annoying requests to get access to the photos, and then repeatedly complain that I can't find them on the network. The day my resident cave troll quits making off with the

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I know, the entire online world has posted this video already. That's what happens when you go on vacation, I guess.To shamelessly revamp a quote from another site, there is nothing sexier than a funny nerd who loves cats. It's a good thing I met and married The Amazing Husbandini (a funny, cat-loving nerd) when I did, or else my goal would now be to become Mrs. Paul Klusman (the funny,

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Or is it "jiggity"? Dunno.Anyway, we're back. Colorado has prepared a somewhat cool, cloudy and humid weekend for us, to help alleviate our post-beach blues. It's not working very well. The Amazing Husbandini and I are in agreement about a few things after our vacation ... (Actually, we're in agreement about a whole lot of things, on and off of vacation. I guess that's one of the reasons

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Bad blogger, no doughnut! I've let almost an entire month elapse without a post of any kind...and while this is in no way unusual, I had really meant to be better about posting now that the gardening season is ramping up. Anyway, it is what it is. And since our long-awaited vacation begins bright and early Tuesday morning, the dust will continue to accumulate on KittyChair until the end of the

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It's also totally unrelated to baseball, but since it's Opening Day here in Colorado, I thought that taking a holiday from my usual topics would be fun.So here you go...when the Amazing Husbandini finally builds me a time machine, this will be (have been?) my Halloween costume back in my younger, slimmer days.

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News Flash! The Amazing Husbandini has started a blog of his own! You can find it here.If you go over there, be nice to him. Or else I'll beat you up.

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For my 38th birthday, I got a computer virus. Not sure from whom...there was no card attached.Luckily for me, the Amazing Husbandini - ubergeek that he is - took such offense that any virus would dare strike a computer on his personal network that he immediately launched into that computer voodoo that he do so well, and now my little Mac Mini is back on my desk, happily connecting me to the

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Lady with lovely Italian accent: "So, do you work or do you go to school?"Dude in black and red plaid coat and watchman's cap: "I go to school""What are you studying?""I'm going into social work.""Really? You don't look like someone who would do that.""Well, I'm pretty wasted right now."

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... still not missing being employed. Not even a teeny, tiny bit. Also, I now know more about soils and fertilizers than any one person should know. Did you know that there are varieties of bat guano fertilizer? The mind, she boggles.

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I am not a photographer. I think I have a pretty good eye for composition, but I don't have the technical knowledge to master my little camera, nor, quite frankly, do I have the interest.However, I do love to take photos of the kitties. (Duh!) Since the kitties don't love to have their photos taken, they're not terribly cooperative. Probably only 25 to 30 percent of the pictures I take of

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I won't discuss my last week at work. I always tried not to complain too much here about my job, and since I no longer work there, I see no need to begin now. I will just say that I am unbelievably happy to be out of a toxic work environment that had done a damn fine job of turning me into someone who I not only didn't like, but barely recognized.I did find one thing kind of funny, though. It

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I quit my job on Monday. It's been a long time coming and I'm rejoicing on the inside (a little on the outside, too) but that's not what this post is about. Now that I'm almost-unemployed and facing an undetermined amount of time as a returning student-slash-homemaker, I'm feeling the urge to personal-goal myself into oblivion. (Funny how much that sounds like "personal foul" ... will I get

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I know, it's been a while. What can I say - I've been busy. I have very little free time anymore, and even with as much as I love the kitties, sitting down and typing out their every move is not at the top of my to-do list. Things like laundry muscle them out of the way.Anyway, more about my excessive busyness later. (Like, after the first of the year.)When last I reported in, Cosmo had

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We've had Cosmo just under a month, so I guess it shouldn't have surprised us. We were downstairs, watching reruns of the Rockies first season (dredged up from the vault to kill time during a rain delay), when suddenly we heard hissing coming from the Electric Mayhem. Curious, we wandered over to see what on earth had her so upset...only to discover that Cosmo had apparently decided that he was

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Toxic...cat...gas...Send....help....

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Cosmo (formerly referred to as Mr. TBD), in all his furry glory. He's a ribbon fiend, and has created some lovely macrame installations all around the studio.We've discovered some other nice things about our newest addition -- He was obviously hand-raised, since he has no problem with us playing with his tummy or his paws. Claw-clipping is not going to be the issue with him that it is with the

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For the first time in a long, long time, there is a safe-to-pet kitty tummy in the house. Bonus, it's a tabby striped tummy! (squee!) We have discovered that Mr. TBD - we're almost settled on an alias - not only likes to have his tummy rubbed, but also has no problem with getting his paws fondled. On Day Two, we actually managed to trim his claws! The only difficulty we ran into was that he

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One of the things we noticed about Mr. TBD in the shelter was that, unlike our other two kitties, he was very quiet. Big Acoustic Kitty and Electric Mayhem can be quite the talkers when they want to be. Scratch that...BAK can be chatty when the mood strikes, but EM is downright unshutupable. So when we went to adopt him, The Amazing Husbandini and I commented that we wondered if he even had a

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It's official; we're insane. Big Acoustic Kitty and the Electric Mayhem have a little brother ... online alias TBD. He's currently sleeping off the his adoption trauma in the guest room. After he settles in a bit, we'll get some photos posted.Also, if the 1.8 people reading this know of anyone in the general vicinity of Denver who are looking to add a lovely feline lady to their family, Bird is

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I would like to point out that I don't discuss my day job here. I'm taking the high road...and damn, it's tough. All I'll say is that I spent most of today praying for a layoff.Anyway... Remember The List? Well, it's been revised:2 mini cat paintings for Mom (I know, I've only posted the first two I painted. The third one will just have to be a surprise.)Edit and illustrate 2nd children's

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I dislike hot weather. I especially dislike hot weather when it keeps me out of the studio. And since the studio is on the top floor of an under-insulated house, with a big west-facing window and an undersized ceiling fan that doesn't do much good at all, anytime the temperature goes over about 82 degrees, I can be found almost anywhere BUT the studio. So anyway, I've gotten very behind in my

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Nothing much of substance to post right now…several projects in the beginning stages, but so early in the beginning stages as to not really be worth documenting quite yet. So instead, I give you some recent kitty (and doggy) photos: Neighbor kitty to my MIL and FIL. I’ve forgotten said kitty’s name, but he (or she) was having a lovely time on this particular warm day, flitting from branch

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If you have a few spare dollars to throw at the Humane Society, now would be a good time. The flooding in the Midwest - in addition to all the human misery - has put some shelter animals in an even worse situation than they already were. Piedmont, MO has lost their animal shelter to the flooding, along with a lot of the animals they were housing. The survivors are being cared for as best as

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Happy 35th Birthday, Lewis & David.Love,Your Big Sisterp.s. Have Pop-Pop take you to the track today. And ask Grandma to make you some of her Waldorf salad. And skritch all the kitties for me.

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Eighteen small screws, one finishing nail, five paintbrushes, two water buckets, two little plastic paintbrush bristle protector things, three canvases and a tube of white acrylic paint. Here is the list of items sent flying in all and sundry directions by the Big Acoustic Kitty this afternoon in an attempt to navigate the turn from one studio table to another. Not being able to see where

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It does sometimes happen. The Big Acoustic Kitty and the Electric Mayhem (formerly known as the Small Electric Kitty) end up being in close proximity to one another without any bloodshed being attempted.This is rare, so enjoy the pictures.View from Electric Mayhem:View from The Big Acoustic Kitty:

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