11/13/24 Wednesday

 I’m sitting on the couch with Ralphi. He’s taking a bath. lol so freaking cute. Mr. Bojangles is doing the same thing except he’s in my bed. I love my kitties.

I think I will clean my kitchen cabinets, and do a little touch up with paint. I’ve been planning on doing it for months so I think today is a good day to get it done. And then if I feel like it I might clean my ceiling fans and floors.

Every once in a while I drive past my old house. The new owner doesn’t take very good care of the yard. He has weeds growing everywhere…….tall weeds, and grass coming up through cracks in the driveway. It used to be one of the best yards on the street……now not so much. 

I’m happy I moved. I like my neighbors, and neighborhood. It’s a nicer place in general. 

Walking. Voting uncertainty.

 Day before yesterday I completed my 30th  consecutive day of taking a walk around my neighborhood.  Along the way I’ve met Sassy the overweight hound dog who wears a sunflower on her collar. Stretch, the long black and white cat who rubs her head against my hand, and Momma the multi color pregnant cat who rolls to her back for me to rub her belly.

They all make my day. I used to call Stretch, Cookie, until I met her human dad who told me her real name. I cracked up at the name Stretch. I love that name. 

Turns out that Sassys human mom used to babysit me and my sisters when we were little bitty ones. Small world, huh?

Watching Trump pretend to jack off a microphone and then pretend to give it a blow job just repulsed and embarrassed me for our country.

 Of all the amazing, bright, intelligent, competent people we have in this country I don’t understand how it is that we have Trump and Kamala as our choices for president. I feel so discouraged.

Cleaning and Stuff

 Always around the anniversary of boyfriend’s death I plant bulbs, usually tulips. This year I planted tulips and daffodils. The yard will look pretty this spring.

I’ve been busy cleaning my basement. When we moved here I was too busy to even unpack a lot of my stuff. So I just recently went through a bunch of boxes in the basement and then placed a lot of the stuff in my driveway with a sign “free stuff” and hopes that people would take it. Luckily it was all gone in a few hours.

I also had boxes and boxes of Christmas decorations that I don’t use. I don’t want my adult children to have to deal with it all when I die so I finally dealt with it. My neighbor took three large bags of stuff. lol. I’m happy to see it go, and to see someone else happy to have it.

Lastly I threw away so much medical stuff from boyfriend, and the last of his clothes. I felt relieved to let it go.

Most of boyfriends ashes I sent back to Colorado with his son but I kept a big bag of them here with me. I put them out in my garden where most of my tulips grow, and where our cat, Woody, is buried. I kept a very small pinch of the ashes in an urn ring, and then I have some in a little wooden heart to be buried with me.

My basement looks great. So does my garage. I feel like I can breathe better having them all clean and organized.

The vet wants my oldest cat to have the iodine treatment for his hyperthyroidism. It’s about two grand per treatment and might take more than one tx. My cats almost 16 years old. I’m back and forth between doing it and not doing it.

I hate my vet right now for messing up, twice, the dose of my cats medicine and for lying to me about my cats thyroid level. I’m looking for a new vet, will talk to them about treatment for hyperthyroidism for my cat and then make a decision.