Thursday ---

[nightdog_barks]

-- and it's not raining. The sun was actually out for a while but now it's got cloudy again so we may get a little more precip. I think we've had at least 7 or 8 inches over the past few days -- everyone's got mushrooms sprouting in their yards. Also saw a little green anole lizard lying in wait in our ficus tree (on our deck) last night -- he blended in just about perfectly with the green tree leaves as he looked for bugs.

Have to pick up husband's shirts and stop by grocery store. Not much else right now.

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[perspi.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're either dry or you're swamped, eh?

Today I am syllabizing. Or something like that. Heh.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

It's been an unusually wet late summer for us!

Today I am syllabizing.

Just don't go too far and get hooked on phonics.

;-D

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Just don't go too far and get hooked on phonics.

*snort*

I'm ... up, showered, having a late breakfast.

I have done a bad, bad thing. Yesterday morning, I looked at my pathetically thin geriatric kitty and decided she could use a small saucer of half-and-half.

This morning, she would not stop whining at me when I went downstairs to make breakfast. It took a minute before I realized what the whining was about ... and I was going to refuse, but she really is so thin; it worries me even though she vetted fine otherwise.

I'm stuck now, I'm afraid.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA! *snerks*

Z is the same way--I've given her bits of whatever snack I'm having while sitting on the couch, and now she comes running as soon as I sit down, saying "Cook-kie? Cook-kie?" She's just so cute...

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Hee! How did the fingerpainting go yesterday? Any pics you can post?

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Alas, no pics--I was too full of paint myself!! The painting was fun, though, and I managed a few handprint-prints before Z got sick of me trying to control everything. :)

So, the grandmothers will be very surprised!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Animals always remember what tastes good, and what makes it worse is that they have super-sensitive noses so they can sniff out even the faintest trace of whatever Good Thing you're opening.

You are doomed. Hee.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm doomed, but half & half isn't that expensive, and if it helps get her weight up, I'll be happy.

Sylvie was never such a picky, spoiled creature in her youth. It's only now that she's joined the AARPets that she's become high-maintenance. I have to admit that there's a sense in which I love her for it, though; there are certainly plenty of crappy foods I won't eat, so I kind of relate.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Heh. Chango will eat just about anything except veggies (although we did used to have a dog who loved frozen green peas), but sometimes she will turn up her nose at a treat if she thinks she can get something better.

Plus she knows where on the kitchen island counter we keep her goodies, so on occasion she goes to that end and sits ("Look! I'm being good! I deserve a treat!").

Hee.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

*snorfles wee Chango*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Chango snorfles you back, and would snorfle Z too if she could because she adores kids.

Although I'm not sure if 75 lbs. = wee.

Heh.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

My overweight whiny kitty cat became completely bent out of shape the past couple of mornings because I fixed canned dog food for Rocket. (Rocket usually gets a couple of dog biscuits for breakfast, but he had his teeth cleaned and is on a soft diet for a couple of days.) Zippy was convinced I was giving enormous servings of The Good Stuff to everybody except him. He had a complete fit and was jumping up to swat me on the butt while wailing like a banshee.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

"Hey, why is the dog getting the good stuff? What am I, chopped liver? It's discrimination! Discrimination, I tell ya! Mmmm ... chopped liver."

;-D