Posts Tagged ‘clothesline’
Not Funny
I wish I could laugh about it, but we are suddenly prisoners of our cat Mozyr. Whatever the heck his urinary tract problem is, the solution he seems to have selected is to pee on our bed. More specifically, Cyndie’s side of our bed. Could he be sending her a message? I don’t know.
Poor guy. We know he is not well. After a vet visit on Monday, we have special food to give him, and he was given fluids, and also something for pain. His response is to turn his nose up at the food, and to pee on our bed. Seriously, three times Monday night. The second time, while Cyndie was sleeping. That chased her out to the couch in the middle of the night. In the morning, while I was still in bed, sitting up with my computer, I suddenly realized he was sitting on the bed next to me. That can’t be good. Sure enough, he had peed, soaking through to the mattress. I guess the hydration at the vet worked.
It gave us a great excuse to do some serious spring cleaning. Too bad that we had already just done this over the previous weekend, due to the same problem.
I waited all day before putting the mattress back down, because I just didn’t want to give him another opportunity. When Cyndie got home, she pulled out a clean mattress pad and tossed it on the box springs that I had laid back into position.
I walked into the room to lay the mattress back on the box springs, and picked up the pad to move it. Mozyr had just peed on it. That pad hadn’t been there more than a few minutes. I’ve spoken to two people who told me that a cat would be out the door so darn fast if it had peed on their bed. I’m finding that I wish I had some of that in me.
On the bright side, it got me to dig out the clothesline for the first time this year.
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Clothesline Fail
At least she was able to use it once. I guess that is why they make it removable. Unfortunately, it doesn’t hold up 14 inches of wet spring snow as well as it holds up wet sheets and clothes.
We are running on battery power, so I gotta make this short. What an adventure!
(edited w/ update: 10:12 a.m.) I made it into work at the day-job, where there is heat, running water, and electricity; all things we are still lacking at Wintervale. They tell us there is still no way to estimate how long we will be without power. Oh, joy. We are burning wood in the fireplace, in attempt to hold the temperature of the house up at a livable above-freezing level. One advantage to the cool temps: the food in the refrigerator and freezer may last a bit longer.
When I left the house this morning, I drove through falling snow.
Happy month of May, everyone!
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