Nada! I don’t have much today! After a round of not feeling well followed by a cat not feeling well, creative inspiration has taken a holiday!
My cat Mollie is doing much better but not yet 100%. (Thanks for all your kind words sent her way.) It’s not so much the procedure she had done which is common but her sensitivity to almost everything. I’ve spent several hours over the last two days rubbing her jaw which is what seems to make her happy.
When you’re not at your best and have things on your mind, everything seems to go wrong. I went grocery shopping with a list yesterday only to find that they didn’t have half the items on my list. More than half. The place was full of old people because it was senior day with a discount. (Yes, I know I’m one of them but I am not nearly as annoying! Trust me I’m not!) I hate shopping with old people! (If you are old, I don’t mean you. You are a delight to shop with!) Those doggone electric carts near ran me over. I did get the senior discount on my five items.
The beloved husband plucking leaves!
The beloved husband has continued to pick up the leaves. Most of our trees have dropped them except for our Japanese maple. His patience was gone so he went out and plucked the rest of them! All done now!
We put our Christmas tree up over the weekend. As always there were cats, some watching and some helping. Here is a picture of Morgan being very helpful (?) and doing a quality inspection!
Morgan with head in the tree!
Have a great day!
Views and Mews by Coffee Kat 
Kate your intolerance to shopping with the elderly set reminded me of a quote my dad use to say. “Don’t park here because some old bird will crash into your car when she is parking. This is where THEY all park.” I use to tell him to stop being so horrible and then it did happen. Hope your kitty is on the mend.
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Yes! The worst is that I am one of them but I am different! (Doesn’t everyone think that?) Mollie is all better.
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I’m sorry you are not feeling well but at least you are not one of those annoying old people on senior discount day. And you have the cutest cats. Love Morgan inspecting the tree and I can just see Mollie getting her jaw rubbed.
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To much to do and it all jams up this time of year. Read your post on your foot. Don’t you love discovering a new disease that most docs don’t know?
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Hahaha! Now if I could get on that t.v. show – Mystery Diagnosis…… 🙂
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Would you get paid? I hope so!
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Great that you and Mollie are recovering and feeling better. Senior day at the grocery is great for the discount but some seniors are really old and mean. Not me…I am always a joy to be around.?!
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Me too! We could shop together as long as there were discounts!
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A round of not feeling well and an oversensitive cat can dampen the spark of creativity a bit. There always seems to be something going on at your house, though.
I’m not doing a Christmas tree this year since I’ll be spending Christmas and New Year with my daughter in Maryland. I just looked at the weather report–a high of 69 degrees on Christmas Eve for Rockville, MD. I guess I won’t need my down coat.
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You will be about 3 hrs from me and no you won’t need a down coat. We are starting to wonder if we’ll need winter clothes at all.
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I’m sorry Mollie is taking so long to recover. That must be so stressful. Last night at the shelter one of the new cats was recovering from neutering surgery. He was having neurological symptoms, I guess, and it was distressing. My daughter was with us, and it really bothered her to watch him. I guess it’s normal because the vet came in and checked on him, but I felt so sorry for him.
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It is so hard because you can’t explain to them what’s happening. Mollie is still hanging around in her bed on the floor. She’s not a “floor cat” preferring to sit on a bed or other piece of furniture. I would have been upset at seeing that poor cat too. It’s usually a simple surgery. Then again so is an extraction for a tooth that’s already loose.
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Aw, poor girl. I am currently feeling sorry for Tiger after Kana chased her again. Tiger tries. She gets out there and does something and puts on a brave face and then the devil comes running and Tiger loses her courage. Sigh.
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Have you tried squirting Kana with water when she does that? Poor Tig….
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I have, but she just thinks it’s a little annoying. The cat I brought my son from the shelter, Lily, is worse than Kana. She LOVES water, so spraying her just eggs her on. She is really something. Kana just wants to be top cat and have fun to boot.
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That picture of Morgan is priceless. I’m glad Mollie is on the mend, and I can relate to jaw issues. I was just told I’m clenching mine hence, my chronic headaches. She’s lucky she has a live-in masseuse like you to make her feel better.
Holidays are tricky. They can be so joyful or not. I go in and out. Happy you feel better and your hubs by the way, is real cute 🙂
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One thing always connects with another — clench teeth = headaches. She is such a sweetheart I hate to see her uncomfortable although I’m starting to think she’s milking it.
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You know how we women are…we need attention, and that’s okay 🙂
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They all like attention. Morgan just climbed into my chair and is slowly pushing me off. She wants her own chair!
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She’s a riot…the Ava Gardner of whooses.
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Hope you and Mollie continue to feel better. With our two tree-climbing cats, we no longer put up a tree. I miss the tree but not all the work. Wow, if the beloved husband ever runs out of leaves to pick, send him my way …
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I wouldn’t put up a tree if it wasn’t for my husband. He insists!
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We don’t have a senior discount day at our local grocery store, but there are always plenty of us seniors shopping. I try to be a considerate shopper but I hate those electric carts that whiz around taking up two lanes of traffic! Good luck on the Christmas tree with cats – they are always a temptation for them. We have live oaks in our yard and they shed in the spring.
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At our grocery store, there is a bus that brings a large number at once from a retirement community. That is the really bad time to shop. I hate grocery shopping at the best of times but maneuvering around people who are not sure what they want or are slower makes me less patient than I would like to be. I try to avoid those times and it works for all of us!
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The picture of your husband picking off the last of the leaves is priceless! We don’t have trees that lose their leaves in our yard, but we get plenty of leaves blown into our yard from our neighbors’ trees. Perhaps I should suggest they, too, pick the leaves off before they hit the ground.
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I couldn’t believe it myself. I asked what he was doing. He said, “I want to finish up and this tree didn’t finish dropping yet!” So he helped it!
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That is one dedicated — or maybe impatient — husband. Hard to be Christmassy when one is under the weather, and the only snowy weather is on your website.
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Yes! Thank God for WordPress and their snowy apps!
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Glad you and Mollie are feeling better. A tree in our neighbor’s yard, which reaches into my yard, was the last holdout with the leaves. Geez! I kept looking to see if they had fallen so I could complete my leaf raking duties.
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Most of our trees drop early except for the maples and the pear tree. This last hold out was making him crazy!
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Soft paw pat for Molly on the mend. (RC is training our Molly in “soft”…an energetic paw wave to the smartie Morgan).
Hope everyone continues to feel better.
(Got a real laugh over the grocery store)
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Never shop on senior day! At least in my area! Some are sweet (like me…I know hard to believe) but I was in back of two older women who badgered the register person relentlessly and it wasn’t her fault!
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I know, but you stumble in accidentally on occasion…and quietly whisper “shoot me if I ever get that way”?
Bless the kindness of some of those checkers. (On grocery young girl always made my dad’s day by chatting a minute as she checked out. He always left smiling.)
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I’ll agree to shoot you if you agree to shoot me! Some checkers have a way with older folks. Then some don’t have a way with any people.
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So happy Mollie is almost 100%… glad when she is fully 100%! Your husband plucking the leaves off the tree is too too funny! Our Bradford Pears didn’t want to let go and CH would have done what your husband did if the trees weren’t so tall. Glad you survived the electric cart brigade… beep beep beep. I’m old but not annoying… 😀 I hope. Morgan had to be helpful!
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We have a Cleveland Pear tree and it holds it’s leave for a long time. However, they are down, it was just that one maple that was keeping the lawn vac in the garage. I’m pretty sure it has been transferred to the “facility maintenance” shed for the winter.
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The Furry Trio and I are so glad Mollie is feeling better and hope it won’t be long before she is completely well again. Poor baby. Nobody likes going to the dentist, after all.
Trixie, Caspurr and Shimshi send her headbonks and kitty kisses.
And we hope you, too, are feeling better.
Happy Holidays from us all.
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Awww, thanks! Mollie lifts her head and sends a soft paw wave to the furry trio! Your holiday has ended but I hope it was a good one.
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Our little tree is up, and we have decorated the kitchen window with snowmen, trees and snowflakes surrounded by our set of lights we had when we had a big tree. We’ve sent pictures to our host apologising in case we’ve blown her street cred, and she thinks it’s terrific!
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I think the “housesitting gig” came at the perfect time!
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It has been really good for Maggie as no doubt she would have found it awkward in the boat if she’d had to wear the bucket collar, not to mention the added pain of getting in and out or on and off our bed which is a lot higher than a normal one. Our host was aware of all this and has been so generous with her home.
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Sometimes fate intervenes and good things happy. Yay for Maggie and I’m so glad she’s up to snuff!
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I’m happy to hear Mollie is feeling better, Kate. Tell your husband, in the next picture, I hope to see him wearing his colors. 🙂
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He’s being optimistically hopeful. Deep down he’s not expecting anything! It will be a hard game.
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Yes, it will…but we have hope!
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Cats and Christmas Trees. They love them. I don’t think anyone in our home enjoyed the Christmas Season nearly as much as our cats.
I finally ended up having a set of cheap plastic ornaments for hanging on low branches that wouldn’t make me scream if I found them in the dining room instead of hanging on the tree. I’ve only had one that climbed it, which may be the thing I’m most grateful for at Christmas.
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My favorite cat story is from when I was a kid. We had a cat that climbed the tree and slept near the top. Made my mother crazy because she was afraid it would tumble over. (the tree with the cat) As if that wasn’t bad enough, we had a whole platform with trains, houses, etc. underneath. The mountains were crumpled paper and one day the cat pooped in the mountains. She never had accidents in the house so I (at age 13 or so) assumed that she thought the mountains were real and appropriate. Our cats are older now. The older two will sleep under it on the skirting. Only Morgan will bat a low hanging ornament which is unbreakable.
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Cats are excellent “supervisors,” especially when we decorate for the holidays!
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They can get bossy and insistent about where things should be. Morgan has mostly outgrown the “this ornament would look better under a chair” stage. Mostly.
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Good to hear both you and Mollie are feeling better. It is particularly hard when one of our non-English speaking critters are not up to par. The picture of Dan was enhanced by the falling snow. Perfect!
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Yes I need an ESL teacher for my cats!
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LOL!
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Ugh, feel better soon. To you, and miss Mollie. I cracked up over the leaf picking picture. Hilarious. Every day, my husband and I look at this massive tree in the front yard, hopeful the leaves are FINALLY all off the tree. We are tired of leaf blowing. Raking. The leaves all over our cars. The neighbor kids running through our leaf piles and sending them flying. It’s slow torture. If the tree wasn’t so big, I’d steal your husband’s idea and pluck them myself haha. Smart thinking.
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Last year some of the leaves stayed on until spring. He is such a neatnik in the yard and he wasn’t having any of those stray leaves this winter. Not sure how many years he can do this. The tree is young and still manageable. Somehow he will devise a leaf remover!
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Maybe a super strong vacuum. Then he can just vacuum them off lol
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He bought one of those for the lawn this year. He loves it. I don’t like clutter on my kitchen counters and he doesn’t like clutter on his lawn. To each their own (as long as I don’t have to clean the lawn!)
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No doubt Morgan had on a tiny safety helmet with goggles while performing the annual tree inspection. Typical of cat inspectors these days. Anyway, Kate, it sounds like you need to have a good cup of Starbucks, then the world will be right as rain. 😀
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Funny you should say that. It’s raining right now!
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Is there nothing Starbucks doesn’t dabble in? 😀
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🙂
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Glad you’re feeling better! We’d love to see a photo of your whole tree! Our tree is going up today!
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It’s all done now. Hazel has pulled some of the gauzy fabric down to sleep on but no ornaments rearranged yet. I had a friend with a very young kitten and every day she posts pictures on Facebook with her cat somewhere in the tree peering out. It’s an adorable age (except for fragile ornaments).
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Plucking the leaves off the tree?!! That’s a new one. I think we’re way too mellow to even think to do something like that. Of course, my decorating style leans toward eclectic, so a few errant leaves here and there in the yard just adds to look. Hope you feel better soon– and that you’re cats don’t pull your tree down.
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My husband is neurotic about the yard (I am not). He did a final cleanup yesterday. Of course he did a final cleanup last week and the week before too.
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Laughing…
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