rhiannon and shadow (GA)
Very Active Member
Hello Friends,
sorry i've been such a slacker lately but we've been doing some upgrades....
and sorry, this is long....
last condo with pics ( wow, all the way back to November)
In December, my dh decided it was time for us to stop being so good and we bought ski passes
and went skiing every open day and made a few trips to durango.... and Sipapu , NM
so Jan and Feb were constant skiing..... WOOT!!!
for March....
we bought new windows ( by Anderson - $$$)
we refinished our red oak hardwood floor in our bedroom /bath area ourselves....
we went distressed.... so we sanded it, beat it up and stained it....
and painted our bedroom /partial bath area....
plus i've been trying to re-organize the entire house ( ever so slowly)
got a new bedroom rug
and waiting for all my new blinds.... ( sheets currently used in our bedroom as curtains
)
now we are getting a new furnace/air conditioner... water heater.... and relocating the w/d and water heater...
gaining 2 ft x3 ft x 6 ft of shelving storage... ( that's huge!!!!!
)
you can tell i'm happy about that....
the second part there - furnace, etc... is being done by someone else.... phew....
allergies have been fierce this year... we've been in the 10's on the pollen scale... and so far it's just juniper, elm
and poplar ( cottonwoods)
dh had to go to urgent care on saturday after putting my eliptical back in our bedroom....
it has wheels on one side and he maneuvered it to our room only to have one of the foot paddles whack him on the head as he set it down - he didn't bleed on any thing amazingly and had to have 7 stitches in his head.
about the equivalent weight of having a brick dropped on your head....
then this past thursday, i had a really bad allergy day....lots of coughing.... and i had a weird pain
in my sternum... as if someone had poked me really hard with a strong finger....
i now have asthma ( started 3 years ago in reaction to juniper) and apparently began hyperventilating
by late afternoon....
i got whacked in head by cast iron skillet ( is that two bricks? )
so i have a dent in my head...
i'm laying on the floor.... hyperventilation....
try to get up and my legs and arms are all tingly.... especially my thighs.....
and my doctor never gave me a rescue inhaler.... i just had a maintainance type....
so ...
with the shallow breathing, the chest pain, the tingles....
we decide to be safe than sorry and go to the ER.
they gave me a nebulizer treatment, ekg, and blood test....
prednisone, potassium ( apparently mine was very low) and a rescue inhaler....
the symptoms were too close to heart attack.... and i had to admit that i don't know what one would
feel like in my own frame of reference....
i did have hypertension too but that's the first time ever.... so it could have been all the stress....
we'll be watching that....
it has been a very hard month of work, got company coming tomorrow
plus just regular work, day to day normal things to take care of....
glad we are on the downhill side now....
phew.....
Anyway....
kitties are all young and crazy....
i am going to have to take Phantom in and get his hormones tested....
just for my own piece of mine....
he's having a love affair with a fuzzy blanket daily....
he drags it all over the house...at least twice a day.... and he bites it and kneads it ( no direct humping)
but he does get an erection while he does it....
he is my first male cat but it just seems excessive to me ...
at least he doesn't do it to any of the girls....
but he does go on daily rampages of attack/domination especially to Maia.
Keora is currently wearing a homemade sweater....
I cut a sleeve off an old sweatshirt and used the wrist as a mock turtleneck ... cut out two leg holes...
and it fits halfway down her back...
i tried to buy her a hoodie online but the xs was too big....
anyone want a pink hoodie? it would fit a chihuahua
i needed something to interfere with her scratching the back of her head/neck....
she gets these sores from roughhousing with Phantom ( who now has his claws trimmed)
but she could reach them and scratched them so much that they became bloody sores....
i rub neosporin on it daily which she loves because it itches so so so much)
She got a new one now on top of her head and hopefully she can't really scratch that area.
She is still the lovey here.... she sits by me more than any of the others....
still tries to sleep against my neck if i will let her (she's so hot)
and Phantom and she are two peas in a pod.
She's a tough tiny girl and she gives it back to him often, but she also tries to stay out of the fray
as much as she can. (maybe that's part of why she sits by me .... for protection)
she absolutely loves cheese and if I am grating any, she shows up and mews the tiniest little
sound , i can barely hear her.
Amale and Maia ( my ds's two) hang out with us most of the time but he's starting to get them
to hang out in his room more. Maia is the gentlest sweetest girl.
She is friendly to strangers and wants love from any one....
She and Phantom are the only two out when visitors come.... the other two hide.
Phantom is in your face... like " who are you and what are you going to do to entertain me? "
he climbed all over the window salesman.... even smelling his hair....
he's such a bold cat.
Phantom is also always right in the middle of everything we are doing....
hard to keep him out while we painted, stained the floor...
they all had to supervise our work.
so here are the most recent pics.....
sorry for the blurry ones.....
phantom under tree
phantom, maia, keora
Maia next to old floor color ( not a clear picture of how faded, worn out)
Phantom nesting.... we had to move everything out of our room so we were stacked high
Keora snoozing
that new toy.... with all 4 in shot.....
the new floor ( 65 years old ) hard to get a really good view
i really loved beating screw lines and making faux worm holes....
kitty supervisors
every time we had a ladder, someone was on it.... so we had to keep it away from windowsills else
they would jump on them..... especially while painting.
and lastly,
Keora in her homemade sweater.... but she's sitting on a red dishtowel too....
black and white cats look so pretty on red....
well...
that took 2 hours to post....
i hate windows 10.... and the cloud with my pictures.... i can't figure it out....
i had to save each picture on another place on my computer, then go load them on photobucket....
it wouldn't let me have them off the cloud to upload....
i will have to not postpone so very long next time.....
these guys are coming along.....
but even collectively, they don't have as much personality as Shadow ( whom I miss so very very much)
of course,
Shadow wasn't crazy ( at least not the last 10 years)
Hugs to all of you....and I'm watching you all....
I don't always post... but I try to keep up with the headlines....
things should really slow down after the next week....
unless Durango gets a bunch of snow....
sorry i've been such a slacker lately but we've been doing some upgrades....
and sorry, this is long....
last condo with pics ( wow, all the way back to November)
In December, my dh decided it was time for us to stop being so good and we bought ski passes
and went skiing every open day and made a few trips to durango.... and Sipapu , NM
so Jan and Feb were constant skiing..... WOOT!!!
for March....
we bought new windows ( by Anderson - $$$)
we refinished our red oak hardwood floor in our bedroom /bath area ourselves....
we went distressed.... so we sanded it, beat it up and stained it....
and painted our bedroom /partial bath area....
plus i've been trying to re-organize the entire house ( ever so slowly)
got a new bedroom rug
and waiting for all my new blinds.... ( sheets currently used in our bedroom as curtains
)now we are getting a new furnace/air conditioner... water heater.... and relocating the w/d and water heater...
gaining 2 ft x3 ft x 6 ft of shelving storage... ( that's huge!!!!!
) you can tell i'm happy about that....
the second part there - furnace, etc... is being done by someone else.... phew....
allergies have been fierce this year... we've been in the 10's on the pollen scale... and so far it's just juniper, elm
and poplar ( cottonwoods)
dh had to go to urgent care on saturday after putting my eliptical back in our bedroom....
it has wheels on one side and he maneuvered it to our room only to have one of the foot paddles whack him on the head as he set it down - he didn't bleed on any thing amazingly and had to have 7 stitches in his head.
about the equivalent weight of having a brick dropped on your head....
then this past thursday, i had a really bad allergy day....lots of coughing.... and i had a weird pain
in my sternum... as if someone had poked me really hard with a strong finger....
i now have asthma ( started 3 years ago in reaction to juniper) and apparently began hyperventilating
by late afternoon....
i got whacked in head by cast iron skillet ( is that two bricks? )
so i have a dent in my head...
i'm laying on the floor.... hyperventilation....
try to get up and my legs and arms are all tingly.... especially my thighs.....
and my doctor never gave me a rescue inhaler.... i just had a maintainance type....
so ...
with the shallow breathing, the chest pain, the tingles....
we decide to be safe than sorry and go to the ER.
they gave me a nebulizer treatment, ekg, and blood test....
prednisone, potassium ( apparently mine was very low) and a rescue inhaler....
the symptoms were too close to heart attack.... and i had to admit that i don't know what one would
feel like in my own frame of reference....
i did have hypertension too but that's the first time ever.... so it could have been all the stress....
we'll be watching that....
it has been a very hard month of work, got company coming tomorrow
plus just regular work, day to day normal things to take care of....
glad we are on the downhill side now....
phew.....
Anyway....
kitties are all young and crazy....
i am going to have to take Phantom in and get his hormones tested....
just for my own piece of mine....
he's having a love affair with a fuzzy blanket daily....
he drags it all over the house...at least twice a day.... and he bites it and kneads it ( no direct humping)
but he does get an erection while he does it....
he is my first male cat but it just seems excessive to me ...
at least he doesn't do it to any of the girls....
but he does go on daily rampages of attack/domination especially to Maia.
Keora is currently wearing a homemade sweater....
I cut a sleeve off an old sweatshirt and used the wrist as a mock turtleneck ... cut out two leg holes...
and it fits halfway down her back...
i tried to buy her a hoodie online but the xs was too big....
anyone want a pink hoodie? it would fit a chihuahua
i needed something to interfere with her scratching the back of her head/neck....
she gets these sores from roughhousing with Phantom ( who now has his claws trimmed)
but she could reach them and scratched them so much that they became bloody sores....
i rub neosporin on it daily which she loves because it itches so so so much)
She got a new one now on top of her head and hopefully she can't really scratch that area.
She is still the lovey here.... she sits by me more than any of the others....
still tries to sleep against my neck if i will let her (she's so hot)
and Phantom and she are two peas in a pod.
She's a tough tiny girl and she gives it back to him often, but she also tries to stay out of the fray
as much as she can. (maybe that's part of why she sits by me .... for protection)
she absolutely loves cheese and if I am grating any, she shows up and mews the tiniest little
sound , i can barely hear her.
Amale and Maia ( my ds's two) hang out with us most of the time but he's starting to get them
to hang out in his room more. Maia is the gentlest sweetest girl.
She is friendly to strangers and wants love from any one....
She and Phantom are the only two out when visitors come.... the other two hide.
Phantom is in your face... like " who are you and what are you going to do to entertain me? "
he climbed all over the window salesman.... even smelling his hair....
he's such a bold cat.
Phantom is also always right in the middle of everything we are doing....
hard to keep him out while we painted, stained the floor...
they all had to supervise our work.
so here are the most recent pics.....
sorry for the blurry ones.....
phantom under tree
phantom, maia, keora
Maia next to old floor color ( not a clear picture of how faded, worn out)
Phantom nesting.... we had to move everything out of our room so we were stacked high
Keora snoozing
that new toy.... with all 4 in shot.....
the new floor ( 65 years old ) hard to get a really good view
i really loved beating screw lines and making faux worm holes....
kitty supervisors
every time we had a ladder, someone was on it.... so we had to keep it away from windowsills else
they would jump on them..... especially while painting.
and lastly,
Keora in her homemade sweater.... but she's sitting on a red dishtowel too....
black and white cats look so pretty on red....
well...
that took 2 hours to post....
i hate windows 10.... and the cloud with my pictures.... i can't figure it out....
i had to save each picture on another place on my computer, then go load them on photobucket....
it wouldn't let me have them off the cloud to upload....
i will have to not postpone so very long next time.....
these guys are coming along.....
but even collectively, they don't have as much personality as Shadow ( whom I miss so very very much)
of course,
Shadow wasn't crazy ( at least not the last 10 years)
Hugs to all of you....and I'm watching you all....
I don't always post... but I try to keep up with the headlines....
things should really slow down after the next week....
unless Durango gets a bunch of snow....
You have such beautiful cats!
