Lusitania

        I am getting very worried about Lu.  She is losing to much weight and drinking way too much.  she did let me get some kmr into her so that is some nutrition better than just plain water. she is again hiding under the bed.  She makes a trip to the fountain,drinks sometimes cries.  Dr. D suspects diabetes.  and right now i cannot afford a senior blood panel as some subhuman hacked my bank account.        

candle powered heater

OK, I saw this on Facebook and searched You Tube for opinions. http://youtu.be/eyRzcwGbvwE
I have been using this or about a month now and it has been working.
They are as stated only a radiant heat.  I wanted to laugh at the guy who thought it would keep his greenhouse warm.  Really???
I found that if I add oil to the candles they burn longer.

 Best thing is the cats have not messed with it.

here is how I have mine set up.

I have the candles and oil in a terracotta saucer on a low stand. (before when it was on the ground it glued itself to the tile floor.)
on the saucer I have rods/dowels/sticks whatever you want to call them to create an air flow space for the candles to get oxygen. there was some trial and error to find the right size.
set the smaller pot over the candles with something to block the water hole in the pot. I am using a flat rock I found.  over this is the second pot.

and on this i set a small tea pot.  two functions warm tea and humidity.

I have found that if I soak the outer pot in a  pot o water it will produce humidity through the night.

calendar

 i will have to edit this when i get to the coffee shop as this droid sux.i have completed my current caledar and it is ready for the printer.   i cannot get this stupid phone to interface with the blog very well but maybe it is the blog that is the issue. t

I am sitting in a coffee shop as I am not sure if I want to maintain home internet.

 At the coffee shop I can get online for free. It is slow, guess I can knit while waiting for things to load.
At home it would be around $80 a month.
I do not do that much online other than go on Ravelry, see what is posted on YouTube, check FB and watch a very few TV shows.
So $80 will get me maybe 8 hours of TV.  Somehow this does not resonate as being worth it.   Especially as I can catch them at the coffee shop while sitting in my car so as not to disturb others there.

The only real thing I use the computer for is calendars.   So I am sitting in the coffee shop uploading pictures to CostcoPhotocenter.com so I can work on the calendar.  I am missing my little Diva, it will be sad that this will be the last time she will be in a calendar as April will be  her tribute month. It still hurts that I only had her 3 short years.

My vacation was good, I saw some states that I have not been to in a very long time if ever.  I got to meet some of my Raverly friends which was fantastic.  Meeting new kitties and a few pups was fun.

I have followed on FB the travels of Taika and Dahlia. I will miss them but I am glad knowing they will be loved.

















Taika, such a adventurous girl. Take good care of Dahlia sweetie.

Contemplation of a tattoo

I have been thinking about getting a tattoo in memory to The cats I have lost. 
M'Agnes learned a trick to get treat was to press on my hand as if it were a lever.  She then started to use this to get my attention. If I was on the computer she would press on my hand and look deep into my eyes.  It always brought a smile.

I also would like a bracelet of forget me not blossoms maybe entwined with cherry blossoms.

Today  completely lost it.

I went onto The Unique Sheep website to look at the M'Agnes and M'Agical colorways and started balling my eyes out.

Not even pictures of my girl just pretty yarn and I cry. Laura is lovely and has offered to do the tribute colorway, I am just not sure when I am going to be able to really look at the pictures and choose one for the color.  I did ask her fans and i think they are n the same state I am in and not able to look at the pictures without crying.

Within a few seconds I was fending off Lu as she wanted me to stop crying.


I did hear from URRKN today it looks like the trip is a go. I just need to know the path so I can reserve night lodgings.

PapaBear Sighting

 I saw PapaBear tonight, he is getting skinny. If I did not know that he is another FIV kitty I would trap him for neuter but I know that is why Rue died.  
As I watched him eating with his tiny ears and very round face I saw that he had the same facial patterning as Lakota.

He kind of looks like pictures I have seen of European Wild Cats,  though that s very doubtful being in California and all.  He is definitely  feral though.  He knows that the cats are fed in the back yard and that Rue is no longer defending the area, so he is more brazen than he use to be.

I wish I had been able to catch him when he was younger, when it would have been safer to neuter him. He has got to be at least 10 now!   Such a gorgeous boy.

Also, speaking of brazen boys, Esteban is running off the girls across the street to steal their food.