(It was 1° F here this morning!)
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Monday, March 4, 2019
Hiding from The Cold
... and I'm not coming out until it's over.
(It was 1° F here this morning!)
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(It was 1° F here this morning!)
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Friday, March 1, 2019
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Monday, February 25, 2019
Holding Down the Clothes Fort
Maxwell: What do you mean by, "Maxwell, get off, those are clean"?
...why do you think I'm sitting on them?
(Humans sometimes....)
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Friday, February 22, 2019
Do What Again...?
Allie: ... Mother ....
...there's a Red Dot on the carpet!
The Mom: I know, Allie. You're supposed to chase it.
Allie: Well, that's rather ridiculous....
The Mom: Maxie likes it.
Allie: I rest my case.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
Winter Not-so Whites
Maxwell: Some of you may have heard that we had a bit of an adventure a few weeks ago.
Remember the snow I shared with you on Friday? Loads and loads of it?
Well it was so heavy it broke tree branches, and many in our area were without power.
Allie: Including us. But we had a generator, installed professionally, so we stayed safe and warm.
Or so we thought.
Faraday: Yeah, until the generator caught the house on fire because of a recall the humans didn't know about. And then we ended up outside, inna big ol' crate, wif loads of strangers milling around!
Maxwell: Well now, hold on, dood. Those strangers were cool.
They had firetrucks and power tools, and hoses, and stuff.
And loads of pretty, flashy lights that made the front yard look like a Disney movie!
Faraday: Yeah buts... Seriouslies, Maxie, did you see what happened?!?!?
Here, lemme show you.
(*grunt* canz I get a boost, pleez?)
Look! It's right over here! The house is burned an' stuffs!
Yes, the house caught fire.
We called 9-1-1 and, thanks to fire preparations we've had in place for years, the evacuation went smoothly.
I keep a portable pop-up pet kennel (one in the basement and one in the bedroom where Faraday — our most skittish cat — usually hangs out). It opens in seconds, and I popped the cats inside, zipped it up and took them out the front door.
On the way, I grabbed the packed bags I keep in our front closet — one for the humans and one for the cats.
I was out in two minutes, and that included traversing two flights of steps and going into three rooms to round up cats.
In theory, I could have cut that time in half... hopefully there's no "next time" for me to gauge how I've improved. I'm good with that remaining theoretical!
Faraday: Seriouslies Mommy.
It was incredibly traumatic for an impressionable young kitty like me.
Yes, but Faraday...the front yard looked like a scene out of Frozen !!
Faraday: Not worth it. Soooo not worth it, Mommy.
(but it was pretty!)
The house is still livable, and we're in the process of getting repair estimates.
Remember the snow I shared with you on Friday? Loads and loads of it?
Well it was so heavy it broke tree branches, and many in our area were without power.
Allie: Including us. But we had a generator, installed professionally, so we stayed safe and warm.
Or so we thought.
Faraday: Yeah, until the generator caught the house on fire because of a recall the humans didn't know about. And then we ended up outside, inna big ol' crate, wif loads of strangers milling around!
Maxwell: Well now, hold on, dood. Those strangers were cool.
They had firetrucks and power tools, and hoses, and stuff.
And loads of pretty, flashy lights that made the front yard look like a Disney movie!
Faraday: Yeah buts... Seriouslies, Maxie, did you see what happened?!?!?
Here, lemme show you.
(*grunt* canz I get a boost, pleez?)
Look! It's right over here! The house is burned an' stuffs!
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| Generator, hooked up outside the house (properly). We had not been notified of the recall. |
We called 9-1-1 and, thanks to fire preparations we've had in place for years, the evacuation went smoothly.
I keep a portable pop-up pet kennel (one in the basement and one in the bedroom where Faraday — our most skittish cat — usually hangs out). It opens in seconds, and I popped the cats inside, zipped it up and took them out the front door.
On the way, I grabbed the packed bags I keep in our front closet — one for the humans and one for the cats.
I was out in two minutes, and that included traversing two flights of steps and going into three rooms to round up cats.
In theory, I could have cut that time in half... hopefully there's no "next time" for me to gauge how I've improved. I'm good with that remaining theoretical!
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Faraday: Seriouslies Mommy.
It was incredibly traumatic for an impressionable young kitty like me.
Yes, but Faraday...the front yard looked like a scene out of Frozen !!
Faraday: Not worth it. Soooo not worth it, Mommy.
(but it was pretty!)
The house is still livable, and we're in the process of getting repair estimates.
Still. How about we start 2019 in February?
January wasn't all that great...!
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January wasn't all that great...!
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