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We interrupt Lloyd’s ‘Post in 4 parts’ for a meaningless explanation. I got my first piece of hate mail. A concerned cat lover let me know in no uncertain terms that putting the cats to sleep was a terrible idea. I wrote back, explaining the decision, and Lloyd thought perhaps I should tell all of [...]

Don’t read if you get teary easily. I’m talking to you, Brad. Ok, I’ll tell you the Shadowlands troubles. Aside from the crazy long days at work, on Wednesday we had 4 inches of rain come down in a couple of hours. It flooded one of the window wells at school and the basement carpet [...]

I was going to call this ‘Liquid Cat Baloney’, but that sounded too disturbing. The cats have been eating canned cat food for a while now, and I’m down to buying the cheapest stuff they make. I buy the pâté version because if I get the stuff that looks more like meat in gravy, Skinny [...]

I was welcomed home this evening by the biggest stench you can imagine. Wait, don’t imagine it – I want you to have a happy life instead. Nah- go ahead:  Imagine canned cat food and rancid garbage with a just a hint of cat pee, because that’s exactly what it was. First floor stink: Pfennig [...]

Who’s there? Stupid cat. Stupid cat who? Stupid cat who can’t open the new cat door. Seriously, those senile cats are driving me nuts. Here I slaved over making that travesty of a cat door look less like a beer-induced bad idea, but they couldn’t figure out how to use it. Cricket kept trying to [...]

It never fails that when we have company in the downstairs bedroom (right by the stairs), there is a need to sneak up & down our creaky steps during the night. On Saturday night I woke up at four in the morning convinced that Pfennig was outside and dying. No amount of rationalization could fix [...]