We currently have some cats
Mar. 17th, 2024 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyWe have Callie, Mama Cat, Reeses, fucking Sebastian, and Spirit.
Three of these cats are allowed to go in and out. One of those cats is semi-feral and sneaks into our house using the basement window. And the last isn't allowed outside. She also wears a collar with a bell.
So here I was in the yard yesterday, digging up ragweed by the roots. This is an unending task, but I will see some progress! And in the middle I got distracted and decided to start dividing the daffodils. I know, it's the wrong time of year for that, but if I wait until fall I'll forget again. Honestly, this is why I don't like daffodils so much. I feel like I spend my whole life planning to divide them, then realizing belatedly that I forgot. So I'm dividing the daffodils and then shoving some bulbs where I've turned the soil very thoroughly getting the ragweed up. And while I do this I'm also tossing rocks over my shoulder if I find them.
Until suddenly I toss a rock and hear an alarmed "jingle" behind me. Turning around... "Spirit!?"
So I went to get her, but for some reason she ran away and I lost her! Luckily a neighbor saw her climbing in that same basement window. Crisis averted! But now she won't let me come close. I mean, I guess I did throw a rock at her and then chase her around the house, but seriously! Bygones!
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Three of these cats are allowed to go in and out. One of those cats is semi-feral and sneaks into our house using the basement window. And the last isn't allowed outside. She also wears a collar with a bell.
So here I was in the yard yesterday, digging up ragweed by the roots. This is an unending task, but I will see some progress! And in the middle I got distracted and decided to start dividing the daffodils. I know, it's the wrong time of year for that, but if I wait until fall I'll forget again. Honestly, this is why I don't like daffodils so much. I feel like I spend my whole life planning to divide them, then realizing belatedly that I forgot. So I'm dividing the daffodils and then shoving some bulbs where I've turned the soil very thoroughly getting the ragweed up. And while I do this I'm also tossing rocks over my shoulder if I find them.
Until suddenly I toss a rock and hear an alarmed "jingle" behind me. Turning around... "Spirit!?"
So I went to get her, but for some reason she ran away and I lost her! Luckily a neighbor saw her climbing in that same basement window. Crisis averted! But now she won't let me come close. I mean, I guess I did throw a rock at her and then chase her around the house, but seriously! Bygones!
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Date: 2024-03-17 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-17 10:48 pm (UTC)He's semi-feral and bad-tempered and occasionally picks on Reeses because he's figured out she's the cat the other cats don't like. Also, he smells. If you would like a large semi-feral, bad-tempered cat with no ears then I am happy to trap him and mail him to you in a well-ventilated box, just as soon as I can source a trap. (We really do need to trap him, as he hasn't been altered, and he probably needs his vaccinations as well.)
The rest of the family thinks I'm too hard on him. I think that somebody has to have some perspective around here, and my perspective is that he's semi-feral, why are we letting him into our house!
(I mean, I do feed him. What am I going to do, let him starve? He used to be super skinny, and that was no good.)
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Date: 2024-03-18 01:07 am (UTC)The Feline Distribution System just gifted us with another feral. Showed up yesterday so Tim put food out for him. He's skinny as hell, except for his great big round head. Pretty beat up looking. Haven't seen him today yet.
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Date: 2024-03-18 08:13 am (UTC)That's the hope, yes.
He's skinny as hell, except for his great big round head. Pretty beat up looking.
Oh, poor baby.
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Date: 2024-03-19 01:17 am (UTC)But do you have cat pictures?
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Date: 2024-03-19 10:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-03-20 02:15 pm (UTC)NYTimes at least has the option for "gift link", I don't know if the others do.
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Date: 2024-03-20 02:33 pm (UTC)Also, the WaPo paywall sucks, and you can hit "escape" as soon as the text loads to get rid of it, and I'm pretty sure you can consistently get around the Bloomberg paywall by going to archive.today. Which is how I get around it the few times it doesn't manage to get bypassed by my bypass paywalls extension - I go to the archived page.