Any shenanigans today? So glad you asked...

[susandennis]

So it happened. zoefruitcake warned me. I went to the bathroom all by myself. Both cats were in the living room when I left and when I returned. Sigh. The end of an era.

While I was swimming, I was noodling over the conundrum that is my couch. There are several issues - not with the couch but with the arrangement of it. One is a soft place for cats to land that does not shed. Cleary the green blanket is a favorite but such a shedder. Then I remembered a padded 'bed' that was part of another bed that neither of these cats ever cared about. I put it in the closet. When I got home I dug it out.

It needs cleaning but I put it down on the couch anyway. The Smalls nosed it and then went back to the green sheddy blanket. I put the bed on the kitchen counter so that I could grab it next time I go back to the sewing room (where the washer/dryer are).

So I'm sitting here doing this and doing that and after a bit I realize The Smalls is nowhere to be found. Biggie's in his blue chair but The Smalls is missing.

And then I look up ... He's on the cat bed, on the kitchen counter... all snuggled in.



It's a blessing that neither one of them gets mad when I laugh out loud right at them.

It's been raining buckets since yesterday. Flooding type buckets. I hit a couple of pond sized puddles to and from the pool today. There are a couple of errands I would like to run today but I may well postpone them all. I don't mind getting wet. I do mind flooding my little car.

The Chex Mix I made yesterday may well be the very best ever Chex Mix on the planet. I did, accidently, solve one issue. Always before, because it's how my mother did it and what the instructions say... I would spread out the cereal over sheet pans and then pour over the Chex Mix juice and then stir it up. Yesterday, I put it all into a giant bowl and poured the juice over that. I mixed it up good and only then spread it over the sheet pans. MUCH tidier and easier and, I think, way more evenly distributed. Also much easier to clean up. Score. So delicious.

No laundry got done yesterday and the dirty clothes hamper has now become a cats' playground. So I think I may go start a load. Of course the cat bed will likely now have to wait until it's sans occupant.

Maybe I'll get on that now.

Here's the non-hilarious cat du jour... He can't help it. The competition is just stiff around here.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

I like Chex mix. I don't normally make it because that is one thing that my dad really likes to make and give to me as a gift each year, so I just let him do it! If I ever make my own, I think I will leave out the little wheat chex pieces. At least I think that is what they are...the dark brown ones. Anyhow, one time my mom came up with a recipe for a sweet type of chex mix. I don't remember details but the juice included orange juice and there were also cranberries in the mix. It was ... weird. I think it was sort of a mental block for me because Chex mix is supposed to be salty, and when that wasn't salty it just sort of threw everything out of whack.

[susandennis]

I find that many of us have Chex Mix (freakin' LJ keeps pre-sending my replies!)... peculiarities. I like mine with just cereal. No nuts. Maybe a few pretzels.


I love that your Dad makes it.

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

Yes, that and homemade jerky are his Christmas specialties. A LONG time ago, when our family got the very first food dehydrator we ever had, it came with a little recipe book. One of the recipes was for a marinade for seasoning jerky. He has tried many other recipes for it over the years, but that is the best one and so that is the only one he uses. So jerky and a bag of Chex Mix can pretty much be counted on once a year, and it is a treat. My husband and son both love the jerky... they like both, but my favorite is turkey jerky.

[susandennis]

Well, for years, the only way to get it was to make it. BUT, now, I think you are right, most people do the bagged. I'm just too picky :)

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

The Smalls on the cushion...my heart! And I love the way the two of them can comfortably fit on the grey chair yet Biggie can equally happily take up all the room himself. Cat molecules are amazing things.

[susandennis]

And right this minute they are piled on top of one another on top of the clean laundry on the bed... of course.

[christalin80.livejournal.com]

They look so comfy and relaxed.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

The Smalls looks like he's saying "What are you laughing at? I was just waiting for you to figure out what I wanted."