The nine-toed cat

Savannah now has only nine toes. She ended up having a tumor on one of the toes on her right foot and we decided to just take the toe off. She's a little on the woozy side yet, but just as I figured is doing remarkably well. She's been on and off the bed all by herself since we brought her home and is now enjoying her dinner and laying on her favorite red crinkly bag! She's on the antibiotic for another 4 days and she's got double the pain meds she had earlier in the week and she'll be on them for 5 days. She will have to be in the cone for 10 days to 2 weeks until the stitches in the paw completely dissolve. But she is doing great!

Better than...

CANDY!!! Hahhhh...not what you were thinking I was gonna say, huh?! I read somewhere the other day about roasting tomatoes and I LOVE Campari tomatoes. They are as close as any I've found to tasting like tomatoes did when I was little. So I got some last week when we were at Sam's. And their flavor only intensifies as they roast. I lined a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and once I had them all sliced, poured some Extra Virgin Olive Oil on them, salt, pepper, Ac'cent and some garlic powder and roasted them real slow in a 200 degree oven for about 4 1/2 hrs. I kid you not, they were sweeter than candy. (And a whole lot healthier too!) I fixed BLT's one night and had them on Ciabatta rolls and as an added extra, sliced up and avocado and put on the BLT to make it a BLAT!!! John said he will never eat another BLT unless I roast the tomatoes. We went out this morning to run a few errands and stopped at Sam's and got two containers of Campari's. I saved a few to use in salad but this is the end result. John likes the "extra crispy" ones around the outside edges! And the extra oil left on the aluminium foil? Makes for great bread sopping!!  

Oh! And the "holes" where there are some missing? There was a mouse in the kitchen. Yeah, that's it. A mouse. :::that's my story and I'm sticking to it!:::

Cone Head

My new name for Savannah! I know, I know...bad mamma...makin fun of her baby!

She's got something up with her right front paw. Not sure exactly what yet, but it's not been fun around her the last couple of weeks. She's been chewing at it and making it bleed, then bleeding allllll over the house. I got up the other morning and it looked like a murder had taken place in my kitchen. Blood on the floor, on the walls, in the dining room, in the hall. Nothing better than having to drag the Swiffer out before I can even have my cuppa tea. So we took them both to the vet a month early for their yearly checkup yesterday. The vet took some blood samples from her foot and is sending them off for tests. Hopefully we'll have results back Fri at the latest and then we'll know how to proceed. Until then, she's in a cone so she leaves the paw alone. And he gave me some pre-filled syringes with pain meds in them to give her 2x daily. He said since she can't tell us if she's in pain, better to err on the side of caution.

And she is NOT a happy camper. Hates the cone. Keeps trying to figure how to get the dad-blasted thing off. I take it off for her to eat and then it goes right back on. She keeps bumping into things, which makes me laugh. I know...I'ma a sick woman!!

On the good news front. Our two year quest to get them to lose weight has finally come to pass! Savannah is at a svetle 8+ lbs...though not a lot over 8. She was 14 lbs I believe when we started. And Orleans who was at almost 20 lbs 2 years ago is now at a tad over 11 lbs, with FIVE of those pounds lost in the past year. The vet was extremely pleased with both. He said now we just have to maintain.

Bind It All

I have a Zutter Bind It All and about a half dozen or so wires I'd like to sell. I'd like $30 for the whole thing and if I have to ship it, you pay for shipping. I will take a personal check and if I don't know you personally I will wait for the check to clear before I ship. Lemme know if interested.

She's a Winner!

Aunt Sue's scrappin again! Not before it's time though! This is Joy's school pic from LAST year. Kinda like with the Halloween houses, I guess I was waiting for Typeset paper to come out! That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

I used Bottom Border-Portrait layout from Reflections. Stamp set is Vintage Type. The scalloped circle was cut using my Nestabilities. I used Twinking H2O's on the "J" for a little bit of shimmery goodness. And the canvas "You're Smart" is from the Compliments Typeset add-ons. There's a Foundry Pin holding the tag a.

Hen fruit

As dad used to call them! ( and what a coinkadink that I posted the dad layouts earlier! Things that make you go hmmmmm.)

Imagine my surprise when I walked out to the chicken coop this morning to find an egg. A single solitary egg. But hey, it's a start! I think this is out of either Penguin or Joker. It doesn't look dark enough to me to be from one of the chocolate egg layers. But I don't know if they start out light and go darker since I've never had them before. It's a small egg. They generally are when they start laying. Gotta let the hoo-hah's stretch out a bit! I put a store boughten white egg next to it for comparison.

Here's to more eggs in the days to come!

Remembering

Favorite Weird Unkle Grumpz sent me a couple of pics from slides he had. When we were growing up, we'd go to Olin Mills twice a year for family pictures. These were from 1969.  I'm gonna let the pictures tell the story. If you've got questions about what I used, email me and I'll fill you in.