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Vacation outcomes
2 Aug 2024 06:14 pmGetting some stuff done around the house still; not on a scale with last year, though. We're putting our hope in attempting to continue to get at least SOME things accomplished once we have started working again.
And the fact that my sister and her husband are coming to visit at the end of August! The last time she was here was 2009. He's never left the US. ❤️!
But Anubis is still peeing on everything. In fact, he's escalating. The breeders seem stressed too and they worry that, if it comes to us being unable to handle that much pee in our house, it won't work out well at theirs either, because they have gotten a whippet puppy since he left and it's not fully house trained; their place is hectic. They suggested that maybe if it's terrible, we could lock him in the bathroom instead. But we can't, at least, not for long, because our bathroom just isn't big enough and he's so big and energetic. We had a huge shower with a laundry area and a sauna at our old flat downtown! That would've been another matter. But here, it would feel cruel. If the pee and the stress of having a cat pee on the walls and furniture and anything else we own about 5-10x per day exceeds what we can handle, they're just going to have to take him and, like, put him in THEIR bathroom, I guess.
Our intention was to try Helen Rennie's Earl Grey chiffon cake and a chicken pie with mash on top and I was hoping also dal, but there's only three days left before I have to start working again (ANXIETY KLAXONS) and we tripped and fell into making a big batch of guacamole and one of pesto. Most expensive pesto we'll ever have eaten, after buying four little potted basils from the produce department! (We should try to grow from seed, but that takes a while, so... maybe we will start some seeds soon, when Wax sets up a glass greenhouse cabinet?, and then we can make pesto again in a year or whatever.)
And the fact that my sister and her husband are coming to visit at the end of August! The last time she was here was 2009. He's never left the US. ❤️!
But Anubis is still peeing on everything. In fact, he's escalating. The breeders seem stressed too and they worry that, if it comes to us being unable to handle that much pee in our house, it won't work out well at theirs either, because they have gotten a whippet puppy since he left and it's not fully house trained; their place is hectic. They suggested that maybe if it's terrible, we could lock him in the bathroom instead. But we can't, at least, not for long, because our bathroom just isn't big enough and he's so big and energetic. We had a huge shower with a laundry area and a sauna at our old flat downtown! That would've been another matter. But here, it would feel cruel. If the pee and the stress of having a cat pee on the walls and furniture and anything else we own about 5-10x per day exceeds what we can handle, they're just going to have to take him and, like, put him in THEIR bathroom, I guess.
Our intention was to try Helen Rennie's Earl Grey chiffon cake and a chicken pie with mash on top and I was hoping also dal, but there's only three days left before I have to start working again (ANXIETY KLAXONS) and we tripped and fell into making a big batch of guacamole and one of pesto. Most expensive pesto we'll ever have eaten, after buying four little potted basils from the produce department! (We should try to grow from seed, but that takes a while, so... maybe we will start some seeds soon, when Wax sets up a glass greenhouse cabinet?, and then we can make pesto again in a year or whatever.)
