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Musings of our Cats on the Farm

~~~Rooting Yams~~~

~~~Rooting Yams~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My younger daughter has a horticultural job….. …..she grows vegetables to sell….. A few years ago…she attended the Florida School for the Deaf & the Blind and graduated from their vocational college with a Certificate of Horticultural Management….. *****(Florida School For The Deaf & The Blind and First Coast College Information)***** As a result…we get some interesting home projects….. Currently she (we) is/are sprouting sweet potatoes on the back of the kitchen sink……..

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Black Light Surprise

Black Light Surprise

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** …..Another Discussion of Urine?….. …..I thought I’d continue writing along the same theme….. I’m sure there are better topics to discuss….. …..but…hey….. …..pee happens….. …..and if it doesn’t occur…then there’s a much bigger problem….. So…let’s all celebrate the ever-present existence of that big yellow-puddle….. Woot…Woot!….. But…along that line….. This is concerning….. As you probably remember…we have house pets….. And I swear they are all house-broken…(when they choose to be)….. …..(there’s a lot of…

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***Otto versus Danny***

***Otto versus Danny***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Apparently there was a slap down fight in the front yard that I knew nothing about…(until much later)….. Apparently (as per my younger daughter)…it was totally unprovoked….. Apparently Otto won….. I know I’m a control freak…I hate when I’m not on top of things….. …..and that is what recently happened….. Danny (my younger daughter’s Papillon) normally is on the back of the couch….. …..around noon recently…I noticed that he wasn’t really napping…but was…

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~~~Sam~~~

~~~Sam~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Sam has moved on….. I would have loved for him to stay longer…..but that wasn’t the plan….. …..I only recently figured out that he was eleven years old….. …..he was older than I thought….. I miss him a lot….. He was my buddy….. …..A Good Good Friend….. Archimedes and Sam were litter mates…..they were the oldest boys here….. But last year Sam developed a urinary tract issue…..not terribly unusual for neutered male cats……..

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~~~Pee Recipe~~~

~~~Pee Recipe~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** *************Disclaimer*****Don’t Try This At Home************* I’ve developed a recipe to help stop/deter/& or dissuade the cats from “marking” (pee’ing on) their territory (my house)….. ~~~Here’s the “recipe”:  Get a 32-ounce ZEP/Industrial sprayer (HDPE-2)….. …..these kind of sprayers won’t melt or leak when you put in essential oils…..(I learned this the hard way)….. Fill the ZEP sprayer with the original-scented O-Do-Ban (the…

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~~~The Morning Ablution Dance~~~

~~~The Morning Ablution Dance~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** …..my philosophy…..is that children and animals come first….. …..it’s not necessarily a benevolent philosophy…..it’s just what demands to happen….. If one of your children is in distress…..then the superhero in you manifests itself immediately….. …..same thing occurs here on the farm….. …..it’s not a conscious response….. It’s muscle-memory…..or maternal instinct…..or maybe just Pavlovian salivation…..whatever is in vogue these days….. …..when a…

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All Better Now

All Better Now

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** If I say it enough…..maybe my body will believe me….. I’m DONE with being sick….. I’ve decided……I’m NOT sick anymore….. Too much unproductive down-time….. So…..I’m NOT sick anymore…..I’m just not….. …..the house cats are still sick…..but recovering (slowly) too….. I’ve tried taping N-95 masks on their furry/sneezing faces…..(it didn’t work)….. …..(they might be a tad concussed (from being airborne as much…

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…still not better…but this is getting boring…

…still not better…but this is getting boring…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** This sure is getting repetitive….. …..it’s still NOT Covid…..(phew)….. …..the worst is the dizziness…..(and the nausea)….. No wait…..the worst is….. …..the cats sneezing….. …..ALL the cats are sneezing….. Doctor Brigid said they have cat-colds…..and it will take awhile for them to get better…..(possible two weeks)….. But ten sneezing house cats…..(?)….. …..That’s The Worst….. I have cats that sleep with me at…

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~~~Opposable Thumbs~~~

~~~Opposable Thumbs~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** …..Opposable Thumbs….. …..are they necessary?….. …..well in this household…..apparently not….. !~~~~~NEWS FLASH~~~~~! I had thought I was going crazy…..(again)….. …..but apparently there are a number of our animals who have and use other body parts in lieu of opposable thumbs….. *****What’s An Opposable Thumb***** In the past…..I knew Copernicus could & would turn on & off light switches….. …..I even had…

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*****Gatsby Was Gone*****

*****Gatsby Was Gone*****

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Not a good thing….. Not good at all….. Remember the repair guys…..?….. They are STILL installing the front windows….. …..yes…..they are….. …..how many days has that been…..?….. …..we’re not counting…. …..apparently……they work on a mañana and/or domani schedule….. …..yesterday they showed up at 5:45pm…..(at twilight)…..(?)….. …..to continue their abandoned repair work on our windows….. But…..unbeknownst to me….. …..they dragged their handy-dandy…

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