Roller coast shot from a few years back. Gramps in second car with Maya. Daughter and Rowan in next car.
Are they gone? – Hazel stuck her head around the corner and asked that question. For the last few days the cats have been scurrying around to both check on and hide from the house guests. They can immediately tell when they leave. Maybe it’s the fact that the luggage is gone or maybe they have a 6th sense. We all plan to take a long nap today to recover.
Speaking of guests – It was the granddaughters who were here to celebrate the beloved husband’s birthday later this year. There was great food and good cheer and a trip to the local amusement park full of roller coasters (more for Gramps than the kids!). It was the last weekend for the park to be open. Great weather, great time! What a great way to celebrate!
Cravings – The change of seasons always brings a change in my taste buds and cravings. It’s more than switching from cold foods to hot. It’s switching from salty to sweet and lightweight to savory. During the summer it’s potato chips. Right now it’s chocolate and pot roast that’s calling my name. I can tell the season by my taste buds.
Say what? – I saw the beloved husband making his way downstairs using a flashlight around 6 a.m. It’s darkish at that time but I’ve never seen him with a flashlight before. I asked later in the day. During the night there was a godawful hairball hacking. We both heard it but it was the middle of the night. It will be there to clean up in the morning. He couldn’t tell where it was but he knew there was a land mine somewhere on the floor. He was determined not to step on it. Alas, I did.
Computers! – Sometimes I click on something interesting when I’m on Facebook. (I know I shouldn’t but…) It never fails. There are tons of ads and I get a “long running script” error. Everything locks up. I click out and never get to see either the story or any of the ads. Programmers should test their products. What’s the point of many ads if no one can see them?
So how was your week?
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Sounds like you’ve been busy living life this week. I’ll take amusement parks, chocolate & pot roast any day. You can keep that hairball though…eek.
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Well, you take the good with the bad. The good news is that no guest stepped in it although the guests have cats too. Wouldn’t surprise them.
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I’m recuperating after a week of houseguests, too, and I think that our dog is happiest now that we’ve reclaimed our quieter life. She doesn’t like change. And I laughed outloud that you were the one to step in the what must have been disgusting hairball! And here Beloved Husband was trying to take care of it and save you the experience!
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Oh he wasn’t trying to take care of it, just not step in it himself. Perhaps if he saw it he would have warned me.
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I don’t think my week will be as fun as yours was with the grandchildren visiting and cats hiding and slippery hidden hairballs. I always love coming here and hearing about your fun interesting times. Now, stay away from those Facebook ads! 🤓
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Awww, thanks.
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Ack, a hairball landmine and computer ad lockup. Boo. Good news is, your lovely weekend with the granddaughters. 🙂
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Always good with bad.
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I haven’t thought about pot roast for a very long time. Now that you mention it, I can’t stop thinking about it!
Chocolate I think about all of the time!
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Both are winners in their category!
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Our guests left this afternoon, and I had a long nap. I wish the house had cleaned itself while I slept.
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When you figure out how to do that, please blog about it.
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Yes, I will! That will be too good to be kept secret.
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My cravings are seasonal too: Apple pie in the fall; hot cocoa with marshmallows in the winter; ice cream in the spring; and barbecued hot dogs in the summer. You can set your calendar based on what I am eating.
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Some foods are very seasonal for me too. I’m not a pie person so it’s lemon meringue in March (don’t know why except that’s when my mom made it) and one apple in the fall. Maybe a fresh strawberry pie in May.
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In New England, apples are everywhere during autumn. Apple picking and apple pie are traditions, like turkey on Thanksgiving whether you like it or not 🍎
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I like my own pie best, made with winesap apples. They are harder to find but I like them.
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Visits from family is always wonderful, but so are the naps after they leave 🙂
Hope you are close to being fully recovered.
I can’t remember the last time I was on a roller coaster (a real one, rather than the proverbial 😉). It looks like everyone was having a very good time!
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I don’t do real roller coasters, just the proverbial ones and those I do often.
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I hear you
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Because we’ve moved around to much in recent years, we haven’t had any guests. But I do recall both the anticipation of their arrival and then the relief when they leave. For me it’s not food so much during the change of the season but cocktails. I go from martinis to more manhattans (i.e. gin to whiskey). – Marty
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I’m a little like that. I drink more margaritas in the summer and mostly beer in the winter.
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We just turned our six-year-old granddaughter back over to her parents after a nine-day stay here. She’s a spark plug that one. Fortunately, no animals were harmed during the making of her vacation with us. 😀
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How about grandparents? Were any grandparents harmed?
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LOL! Nah, not really. Unless you count the loss of hearing we experienced due to the increased giggling around the house. When her aunts and uncles would come over, seemed our stairs became her new treadmill of choice for a game of chase. Still, all in all quite a lot of fun. :O)
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I know exactly what you mean about your tastes changing with the seasons. We are having friends over tomorrow evening and I really, really wanted to make a pork roast with roasted veggies… but it’s been so dang hot here. Fortunately, the weather gods are shining upon us and have cooled things down enough to be able to turn on the oven. Yay!
It’s lovely to have guests, but so nice to get your house back (your cats agree… except about the lovely to have guests part).
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After several days spent under the bed, Hazel has been sleeping on the dining room table, the hassock, the bed, anything above floor level. I love pork roast!
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Oh, those weekly hairballs. Ick. Here’s what I don’t get. The cats at the shelter rarely upchuck hairballs. Why is that?
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I have no idea.
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I love your randoms Kate…. I can relate to the kitties looking to make sure the company has left. I kind of do the same thing. I’m still expecting one of the grands to come out from the bedrooms looking for a blankie to curl up with on the couch. Sadly, they have all returned to real life now but I am still anticipating movement where there is none.
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Yes, it takes a day or two to really return to normal. (whatever that is!)
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Hairballs are attracted to the bottoms of the feet. It’s the only explanation for how they ALWAYS get stepped in. 😀
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I believe that!
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Haha that is so cool your tastes change based on the season!!! I wish mine did but I’m a Sweets girl all year long:)
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My summer sweets are ice cream!
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Oh I’m ice cream all year. I’ll wear a parka to eat it if I must🤣
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Ok, I confess I eat it in the winter too but not as much.
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Lol oh good I’m not the only crazy person:)
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There is no crazy person who eats ice cream. It’ a sign of high intelligence.
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Lol oh then I’m definitely brilliant😛
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I’m happy to hear your husband got in some good roller coaster time with his granddaughters. Here in Charlotte, we’re still waiting for crock pot weather. Our temps are like roller coaster. Go Eagles!
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Today we are rain, cold and damp but it’s the first of the cold weather. I think we’re in the 50s. I did potatoes in the crock pot when they were here and they turned out well. Yay Eagles!
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I love amusement parks. If you want to feel like a kid, it’s the best medicine. Gramps is a smart cookie.
And those kitty cats. I’ll bet they’re anxious to get their domain back to normal, since, you live with them, after all. I can see Hazel with her paws on her hips saying…ma, come on already…:)
Nice you. have cats.
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Hazel was out when we came back from having a goodbye breakfast. How she knows they are gone for good, I’ll never know. Maybe it’s the luggage gone. Now she is trying to guilt me into giving her extra food. She’d only come out to eat when they were out or asleep. Poor baby. The grays on the other hand were demanding attention from the guests the whole time. Morgan of course was the ring leader encouraging Gracie to come out too.
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She deserves a second helping for not jumping out a window. Young women, like Morgan and Gracie, are still players. Hazel hung up her charm a while back, except for you. She hauls it out for her mom…:)
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On occasion!
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Thinking of putting a pot roast in today. Thanks for the nudge. ~ Lynn
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I’m using up food we didn’t use for the guests so it’s spaghetti here. That’s good for a rainy damp cold day.
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Yummmmmm! I’ll be right over! 😉
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Sounds like you had fun with the grandchildren. 🙂
For me the cooler weather brings back treasured oven meals, instead of barbecuing pretty much every night. We do still barbecue 2-3 times a week even when it’s freezing outside.
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Me too. And crock pot meals with a good pot roast. And mashed potatoes. Now I’m hungry!
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I’m thinking a roast or stew sounds good for tonight. I do like meatloaf too.
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Meatloaf is good and easy too.
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And I like it with either a red or cream sauce 🙂
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Never had it with cream sauce!
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I make one using cream of mushroom soup as a base. We like cream sauce if having with potatoes and a tomato sauce if having with rice.
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Hmmm…I like cream of mushroom soup.
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You should try it on meatloaf. 🙂
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Glad that you all had a great time!
So next time are you going to use a flashlignt to avoid the hairball? 🙂
Enjoy resting and now you gave me hungry for Pot Roast! Had Hot Chocolate this morning and Candy Apples last weekend.
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No. I rarely step on them. Usually I can tell where they are by the noise. This time was tough though.
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Sounds like a nice weekend aside from the hairball 🙂
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It was. I got over the hairball fast. You have to when you have multiple cats.
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Fall and winter… it’s all about the savory comfort foods. Nothing says comfort like a Sunday roast in the slow cooker with CH’s mashed potatoes, gravy, and carrots. Happy your visit with family was a good one!
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That sounds so good! When should I come over?
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Anytime!
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Sounds like some fun was had there. We haven’t been to an amusement park in quite a while since the hubby hurt his back and the kids have grown. We went every summer for a few years. We have not had the hairball issue with this cat, thank goodness. I can’t really tell the seasons by food cravings but soup just seems to sound better in the fall and winter than it does in the summer. Happy Sunday to you Kate.
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We hadn’t gone to amusement parks, not even Disney, in decades. Then the granddaughters came along. My husband loves roller coasters and it gives me (the non-rider who gets barfy just looking at the rides some down time).
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Well good morning! Hope your visit with the grands and their Moms was wonderful. About that computer issue you mentioned, it has happened to me as well. So, you never see the end of the “article” and you have wasted precious moments of your time. I am truly disgusted by those “teaser” articles and have stopped clicking on them for good!
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I say that too. Then something comes along with I have some time.
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Glad you enjoyed the visit . . . even if you and the cats must now re-charge your batteries.
Tigger always enjoyed having houseguests, but he also enjoyed reclaiming his domain when they left. I might say the same about me. 😀
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Yes, we (the cats and me) are spraying our pheromones.
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I’ve done that “foot-in-hairball-in-the-dark” thing too many times to count. I don’t know if it’s better with bare feet or slippers — barefoot is gross, but you know instantly, whereas I’ve tracked hair ball all over the house in slippers.
Our heatwave finally broke. The slow cooker shall now reign over the kitchen with beef burgundy and stew!
Do you think it’s the Halloween candy that sets us up to crave sweets? Followed by Thanksgiving pies and Christmas cookies?
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I’ve wondered about that. I get a bag of my favorites at Halloween (no, don’t share with trick or treaters) and it lasts me through the spring.
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Your self control is awe-inspiring.
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Not really. Can’t do that with potato chips. I like my chocolate in coffee or baked goods rather than candy.
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I like my coffee WITH chocolate.
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I’m glad you all had a great time, including the amusement park and the cats are back to their routines..:)
Funny how the seasons affect taste buds. I’m sure it’s a psychological thing and the weather has something to do with it. Maybe someone had done a study..:)
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I should apply for government grant money to do a study!
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You’d probably get it considering the studies they generate
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My thought exactly.
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Not so good with Maggie and Hubby, hopefully next week will be better. Have a good one Kate.
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Hope next week is better for you too!
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Thanks Kate. MOH is coming up today so we’ll be playing scrabble, crib and dominoes (we have no TV!)
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Yuck to the hairballs. None of those here but Jack eats breakfast too fast and throws up…everyday. Breakfast is only time he does it. Any suggestions? Sounds like the young’uns visit was fun. Naps anytime for any reason are good.
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No hairballs! Woohoo! Mollie is the hairball queen but they all do it except for maybe Morgan. Never saw her hack one up. They have toys you hide kibble in and they have to play with it to release the food but for my cats it’s usually the wet stuff they wolf down.
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I woke up one dark morning to find a cat had left a slimy hairball IN my husband’s shoe. For a fleeting moment, I had the devilish thought to let my husband slide his foot in, unaware, heehee! (SHAME ON ME!) I had a good laugh then cleaned it up because I do love my husband so!
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It’s tempting but then if it’s starts his day on the wrong foot (no pun intended) you may end up paying for it in crouchiness.
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Naps are good. Amusement parks are the bomb [not literally]. Cravings happen. Hairballs are par for the kitty course. And FB… well, you know I’m not a fan, but I’m sorry that happened to you. Overall your week sounds like it was pretty darned good! 🙂
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Yes, all good. Working on getting cats back to normal (whatever that is!) without guests.
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