Gray days can be glorious

"Are you having a gray day?
I am,  and I'm lovin' it.

Oh, sorry. I spelled that wrong. I'm having a GREY day"

Yep....No gray here.

Glorious Grey

I'm just back from feeding and caring for client's cats and feeding the colony at the truck. It's getting cold now and this is when I start to worry more for them. I leave lots more dry food in the colder weather. I have only seen one cat lately that comes for food but I know there are more. They wait until very late so as not to run into any humans. 


Cat-tip-for-the-day=^..^= litter odour be gone.
Since caring for Annie and her kittens I have gone through many boxes of baking soda. I find it to be the best odour reducing product to add to the litter-box. You know that you can put a box of baking soda in your fridge to absorb odour. Well, it works in the litter the same way. Just add a few shakes of baking soda daily to the litter,  mix it a bit with the scooper into the litter and you will notice less odour immediately. Hands down....the best!
hugs, Deb

Waiting

I see a beautiful cat every day when I walk Kane. Just lucky, I guess.

                         Waiting for it's owner to return.


My cat-sitting clients are the best. They are booking now for Christmas so they are sure to have quality care for their cats as they travel. I'm already getting excited about cat-sitting at Christmas. It's so much fun to enjoy the cats and see all the beautiful Christmas trees at my client's homes. I have a thing for Christmas trees, you know. You'll see. ;-)

hugs, Deb

Playing with dishes & silver-ware

I did 2 posts today. One on kitties and one on my other 'passion'...dishes. It's raining and when it rains I like to organize dishes. I  love my silver-ware that was passed on to me by my mother.

I am keeping my eyes open in thrift stores to replace that one missing butter knife.

 I was raised on wonderful meals as she was a marvelous cook. On special occasions she would pull out the silver just to crank it up a notch. She was not a fancy-shmancy table-scaper but, oh my goodness,  her meals were delicious.

Mom knew I loved dishes and she had my name on this set of silver-ware since I was a young mother. I use it every occasion that I can and I'm happy today to show it off to you. Unfortunately, I cannot see a pattern name anywhere on the wooden box.

Off to cat-sit and make more 'quarters' to buy more dishes. :-)

hugs, Deb

Christmas & a birthday

We had the most beautiful day yesterday. The sun shone and it felt like Spring with just a nip in the air. Crazy weather.

                                                       Lily

Gary took Riley out for a stroll while her mommy gave me a new do. Cut, colour & style. I won't show you but take my word for it...I look better.

I have started my Christmas shopping and will remind you all it is only 51 days away. I always had a hard time getting into Christmas shopping until my youngest had celebrated her birthday. Allie will be 25 on November 29th and she will not be home to celebrate. At this moment she is in Bolivia. Who knows where she'll be by her birthday. I'm not liking it but that's life, I guess. I made sure she had a little gift tucked away in her back-pack to open from her mom and dad on her day. She said she promised not to peak until then. It's just so she knows we are thinking of her and miss her. And by the way, she's having a blast.

Speaking of having a blast, Annie is digging her new-found freedom.

She found another bedroom to sprawl out in and this one doesn't have little rug-rats chewing on you.

 She's not too impressed with that dog blanket on the floor, though.

                                                             ("Oh yes, this will do")

hugs, Deb

Time-out

 Annie had time-out today. Time away from the cat-room. She is getting agitated and there are times she just wants to be away from them. Other times she wants them close to her. It's a difficult time right now for her as she needs to  have her own space. I gave her the second floor to roam and she enjoyed that. She spent some time in the office with me then asked to go back into the kitten room.

The kittens did not miss her.

Off to cat-sit and pick up keys for the weekend. I'm so looking forward to seeing some of my cat-sitting client's cats. They are all such unique little characters.

I have loaded up the cat-bag with treats, toys, a new brush & comb and some reading material. For me, not the cat. They love nothing more than for me to sit on the floor and read with them on my lap. 

 There are 42 kittens on the shelter's website. All under 3 months of age. It is a very difficult time up there. They have a total of 152 cats. My heart goes out to them.

Mine will just stay put for now. Bree will go to her new home November 15.

                               A circle of contentment

hugs, Deb

kitty action

It was warmer today so lots of kitty action outside.

I was so happy tonight. Annie finally had a solid poop. Yes folks...it has come to this. :-)  

hugs, Deb

Calaus

Well,  what do you know....another new month is upon us.

I suppose it won't be long before we see the white stuff in our yard.


"Oh, good morning, Calaus. 

What are you doing in our tree? Looking for birds again? You know I'm gonna chase you home because I like the birds and my cats are finally too old to harass them."

"Off you go now"


Did you notice his eyes? Lucky for him he has two different coloured eyes. Because he is a pure white cat, if he had two baby blues he would be completely deaf. Calaus is only deaf on the right side where he does have a blue eye. 


So he did hear me and the birds are safe now.


"Happy November"


hugs, Deb