Monday

[susandennis]

I'm looking down the nose of a nice, quiet week. The only thing that is even on the calendar - besides baseball games, of course - is breakfast with my friend, Barrie, on Thursday.

But, I do need to do some warm prep. The local weather peops are threatening us with warm weather very soon. They are saying 80's but more likely it will be low 70's. Still... that's moving me out of my fleece comfort zone. I wear a long fleece robe over my swimsuit every morning to the gym. I need to have a summer replacement at the ready. I planning on a long, loose kind of muumuu thing. Made out of patchwork fabric left over from my various tops. I have the patchwork fabric made. I just need to now make the muumuu. It will be, I hope, weeks yet before I need it but maybe if I get it all done and ready, Murphy's law will postpone the heat.

Also on my list today is litter box retooling. I keep the actual box and maintenance stuff in a lovely bench built for just that with a doorway hidden in the side. It's time for re-haul. I'm tossing the old box and replacing it with new - new box, all new litter. And then I'm going to thoroughly clean the inside of the bench and reassemble the whole thing in hopes that I won't have to repeat for a good long while.

I spent a good bit of yesterday examining various litter systems - mechanical as well as different substances and evaluating. For what-- cat, schedule, litter box real estate I've got and my level of maintenance tolerance, I decided to just stay with what I've got. Tall sided box with light weight clumping litter. Simple one (easy) cat solution.

Also today, I will need to walk. Generally, my tracker gives me enough step credits for my swim that I don't need to do that much walking to make my goal but for some reason it short changed me today. Since I'm perfectly happy to live with it when it errs in my favor, I think it's only fair that when the scales swing the other way, I pitch in. So I will be taking a jaunt to nowhere and back probably later this morning.

I just realized that I put my shirt on backward this morning. I thought I conquered this life skill about 67 years ago. Apparently not.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

We're just test driving a couple of new cat litters this week. One is a recycled paper pellet one and the other a cornhusk one that can apparently be flushed down the loo. We have used silica for years but it is getting harder to get hold of it

[fauxklore]

I'd imagine Zoe might have her own opinion on the litter arrangement.

[susandennis]

Happily she's pretty chill with all litter box options as long as she's allowed to dig and spread litter everywhere and pee high on the walls of the litter box. So she gets a really high walled one.

Even so. I'm not sure how she'd react to really really different or a machine so I'm just playing it litter cool for now.

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

I arrived at the gym Friday morning with my shirt on backwards. Not very difficult to do since I cut the sleeves and necks out of tee-shirts, but still they have printing???? No one noticed or cared. LOL

[susandennis]

Well, at least I'm in good company.

[smarie gagnon (from livejournal.com)]

Funny, I got Charlie a new cat box this weekend, the type with the lid and the swing door...welll, he was not too sure about this door, made him go in and out, to get used to it, when he did it on his own I clapped and said ,”yeahhhh Charlie, you did it!!!” He looked at me and walked away, I don’t think he was very impressed, need I say, the door is OFF.
Got the Unicorn I was crocheting finished and delivered to it’s owner, now finally no more orders, and I am actually making something for myself.
Have a good night.

[susandennis]

years and years ago, I used to sew, knit, crochet and macrame stuff for pay and I still vividly remember the relief when I quit and could do what I wanted to do on my own timeline! congrats.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I thought I conquered this life skill about 67 years ago. Apparently not.

Some life skills seem to require constant re-learning.