Steve has been sequestered to the guest room all morning without food because at 2:30 he will be making an appearance at the groomers. I can tell you right now that he is in a fantastic mood, and I will be donning the oven mitts to put him in his cage in a little bit and am very excited about that. At any rate, his long time groomer died last year and it has been hell getting appointments, because his son took over the business and has just been swamped. This appointment has been scheduled for five weeks, which is longer than it took me to schedule a colonoscopy. Since it is already November, we will not be doing a full lion cut, but a bath and a trim and some delicate shaving around his nether regions, and I hope to have some great pictures for you this evening.
Also, thanks to everyone who donated and helped to make the site ad free. It really is a stress lifted. For the past six months I have been dreading coming to the website and reading bitching in the comments and worrying every time Watergirl called if we were going to have yet another conversation about the ads (she’s relentless, yo, which is a good thing considering the immovable object she is dealing with). I’m stubborn and don’t like change and am still pissed they changed the Monk theme song after season 1 and SHARONA FOR LIFE and I did not see a reason to change, but I am willing to do what you all want if it means the site will keep going and more of you have a better experience. Especially if it means I don’t have to worry about it. It’s nice coming to the website without a knot in my stomach and pre-irritated.
So that’s that.
*** Update ***
Steve and I are home from his spa day and the groomer seemed quite pleased he did not cut him and only shit on him three times. Said every time he trims around his rear Steve gets stimulated and it “comes out like aerosolized toothpaste.”
Happy to give you the mental image of aerosolized shitpaste. You are welcome.
narya
I started giggling as soon as I read the first sentence, and the oven mitts put me over the edge. Thank you; I needed a laugh today.
Josie
I’d like a video of you crawling under the bed in your oven mitts to drag him out. Best of luck to you.
ETA: You know he knows what’s coming, right?
geg6
Oooo, do we get pictures of the groomer in all his bandaged glory post-grooming also? ;-)
Leto
There are times when I feel like this is what Cole looks like after any Steve encounter involving… anything. Can’t wait to see the magnificent mini-lion later tonight.
WaterGirl
Relentless is a compliment, right? :-)
Starfish
Which blood banks should we donate to if we want to help you with your near future injuries?
VeniceRiley
If it doesn’t work out, you can always turn them back on, yes? Good luck with the dog business!
SiubhanDuinne
I for one can hardly wait.
Ken
@geg6: Groomers have special techniques to soothe the pet — soft lighting, mood music, clamps, ambien — so they avoid injuries.
Also, they haven’t accidentally conditioned the animal to go berserk when it sees oven mitts.
Baud
This seems worse than the ads.
Doc Sardonic
Quick suggestion re: getting Steve in the carrier with minimum to no bloodshed. If you have a Harbor Freight near you go get a pair of leather welding sleeves. Those combined with your oven mitts should keep you from getting shredded. Works real well on our two youngest for nail trimming.
WaterGirl
@VeniceRiley: That’s what the safety net fund is for, so that if anything changes drastically he has time to figure it all out.
KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))
We recently had to have Loki, a dead ringer for Steve, but in the 10 lb fun-size, groomed. He had to have his teeth pulled last year, got cancer and had chemo over the spring and summer, and developed some really knarly mats on his belly and butt. One on his lower side had even pulled so tight it had formed a wound that his oncologist discovered when she was rechecking him. In our case, getting Loki into into the carrier isn’t made any easier by his smaller stature. We always plan at least 20 minutes for the procedure.
1. Make sure he’s in the bedroom and close the door, which immediately drives him under the bed.
2. Take the mattress and boxsprings off the bed and use them to barricade part of the room.
3. Gradually work Loki behind the chair in the corner, from which he can be chased into one or the other of our hands.
We had to do this every 3 weeks while he was getting chemo. Whew! Anyway, he’s such a beautiful cat, and I don’t know how much longer he has (although he’s doing really well at the moment), so I didn’t want them to shave off all of his beautiful coat, I just had them shave off the mats. So he looks pretty normal, except that removing the mats from his but makes his hind legs look a little bit like he has a poodle cut (chuckle, giggle).
Oh, and the oncologist knows our Loki. She told me to take him to the vet for grooming, and have him sedated.
WaterGirl
Bask in the glow of the ad-free experience… once all the pet calendar pics are in and sorted we’ll move to the next step for the website.
I’ll put up a post with a list of the biggest issues and will be asking all of you to let me know which things are still a problem. So in the meantime, please take note of what seems different or better than it was, and what still remains.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Kitty sphincter!!
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Is the deadline for pet pix today?
Oops if true.
Ken
@SiubhanDuinne: The cover picture for the 2021 Balloon Juice Pet Calendar. But it might be the last calendar ever — “demand just dropped off a cliff”….
VOR
My cat has to be sedated every time he goes to the vet. Absolutely loses his furry mind and attacks everyone, even me. We call it “puma mode”. He’s normally a very relaxed cat who lets strangers rub his belly.
Ken
That is an immensely complicated question, possibly involving quantum uncertainty. Though admittedly I haven’t been following the updates closely.
guachi
Any post titled “A Special Treat for You All” better be about Lilly or Steve. The first word was “Steve” so Mission Accomplished.
JCJ
Did you give up your hobby of shaving cat asses?
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Today at MIDNIGHT is the deadline for getting pics in. As long as the pics are in by Saturday morning when I get up, I won’t be following up with anyone.
WaterGirl
@Ken: We might need to borrow Obama’s time machine if we want Steve’s shaved ass on the cover of the 2021 calendar that went on sale last December. :-)
zhena gogolia
Can’t wait for Steve pics. I said in a thread below that the ads didn’t bother me, but now that they’re gone, I find it a lot more soothing to read the site. Love it.
zhena gogolia
John should watch Maru videos on YouTube. Mugumogu can shower and blow-dry those cats, clean out their ears, and clip their nails, and they just go along with it all calmly. I hope there isn’t some expose in ten years about how she’s been drugging them out of their minds.
chopper
i, for one, am glad you’ve retired from the job of shaving a cat’s ass. at some point you were destined to bleed out.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Thanks! Terrific!
Not even gonna ask what time you get up!
Ken
@WaterGirl: Hey, give me a break, it’s only November. Problem is, I never write checks any more — I used to get the year right by the February batch, March at latest.
Mike in NC
One of our cats has a routine vet appointment in a couple of hours. We just need to figure out where he’s hiding. That’s always the challenge since the vet is only five miles away.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ken:
I know, right? And then all the cray-cray with matching funds. Who can keep track even?
WaterGirl
@Ken: The only reason I got the year right is that I stated with last year’s first post about the calendar, and it said 2021! :-)
So I was just razzing you.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne:
Luckily, me! :-)
JoyceH
“Delicate shaving around his nether regions” – dog groomers refer to that as a “sanitary trim”. For the ultra floofies, it keeps the poop from getting stuck on their behinds.
Almost Retired
I have a groomer visit on my schedule today as well. The Grand-dog, a neurotic Pit Bull who falls somewhere on the spectrum, goes absolutely berserk with separation anxiety when my adult son drops her off at the groomer. But when I take her, it’s just another afternoon with Grandpa. At first, I thought that this was an elaborate scheme to get me to pay the bill. But the groomer confirms that this is the case. She’s probably in on the ruse too, since I’m a better tipper than my son.
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl:
Next to bug-fucking obsessed, yes.
piratedan
@WaterGirl: as an aside, I could not find a bigger pic of Mochi (dog sitting on cat shelves), but thank you for the information and attempt WG.
mrmoshpotato
@narya: Follow up post tonight will be Steve Ate The Groomer
Mel
@VOR: When my hubby and I met, he had a sweet, large tuxedo kitty boy who was a big sugar-pie until he sensed a vet appointment approaching.
He would taunt us, letting us get just near enough to think we could capture him, and would then run like hell. If he was really feeling his oats, he’d shoot a little turdlet out at us as he hightailed it to the next room, where he would calmly sit down and stare at us while casually cleaning his front paws, as if to say, “That all you got?”
No matter what we did or didn’t do, no matter how casual and normal our behavior, he just KNEW what days were vet visit days. It sometimes took six hours of traps, strategizing, and failed attempts at luring with tasty treats, favorite toys, etc.
We tried sedating him, but he had an utterly uncanny ability to eat around the tiniest granules of powdered medicine in any type of wet food.
MoCaAce
@Baud: I was just going to mention don’t google “delicate shaving around his nether regions” at work!
CaseyL
Ads are a pain in general, but I’m sorry the bitching here about them got so bad you dreaded visiting your own blog! Now that they’re gone, maybe we’ll see more of you…??
One trick I figured out for getting cats into the carrier is to leave it out all the time, with the door(s) unlatched and ready to go. The cats are used to seeing it and don’t freak out until I have already picked them up and am stuffing them into it – by which point, it’s too late for them to hide.
That did fail me the other day, though – I swear I think Oscar told Jeannie, “Mom’s taking you to the Bad Place today” – because about 30 minutes before we needed to leave, long before I needed to get her into the carrier, she vanished behind the bookcase.
The Moar You Know
Back in the 1980s I saw a piece on our local news about how a “drugstore cat” had put a woman in the hospital after attacking her.
Even back then, as a cat owner who had taken the family cats to the vet on several occasions, and been present for all of them, and given the family cats pills, I thought “oh yeah, totally plausible”
Think the woman got 40 stiches. They showed a picture, she looked like she’d been mugged with a weedwhacker. No mention of why the cat flipped and attacked her, but cats usually don’t do that sort of thing without a good reason; they tend to run.
The Moar You Know
@Mel: This has been an ability of cats that I am in awe of to this day. How the fuck do they do it? THEY MISS NOTHING.
JoyceH
@The Moar You Know: My cat just spent a week at the vets – she wasn’t that sick, just refused to let me give her her antibiotics! I’ve had cats for fifty years and rather prided myself on my ability to give medicine to cats, but not this girl!
Sure Lurkalot
geg6
@guachi:
Why do you diss Thurston? Poor sweet boy gets no love.
Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff
Trickery this morning to get Mister into his luxury carrier to take him to his “kitty cat oncology spa day” as I like to call it.
But he’s been in remission for over a year now. I hope to join him soon…got diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer two weeks after I turned 52 back in May. Something wrong when a man and his cat both have oncologists. He’s on chemo pills every six weeks, I’m on immunotherapy every four weeks.
Yeah, delurking after who the hell knows how long…hi, if anyone remembers me. I did that “the budget’s not fat, it’s just big boned” line many years ago.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Vaccination tip from a friend: Get the shot in your dominant arm. You’ll automatically move it more, which helps dispel the soreness.
Ken
John and Steve have been at the groomers for fifteen minutes, and no news. I’m beginning to worry.
wombat probability cloud
Are we to assume that Steve wasn’t involved with the demise of your previous groomer?
geg6
@Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff:
I remember you.
I’m sending both you and your kitty all the good vibes I have. My sister had kidney cancer (apparently common for people being treated for Crohn’s disease) a few years ago. Fuck all cancers, but her doctors said kidney cancer is one of the most treatable, if that’s any comfort. She is still with us and in remission.
Anonymous At Work
Remember, extra armor plating over those arteries!
geg6
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I used a stress ball to try to keep it loose. Worked slightly. But my arm still hurt well into this week after getting my booster last Thursday.
Barbara
@Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff: Sending both you and your kitty best wishes for continuing good news on the health front.
Anonymous At Work
@WaterGirl: I feel silly for asking but you do know that Google/Chrome is re-programming things to prevent ad blockers? Not sure how that would affect the site but my sense is that Google thinks its future is selling intrusive ads and might make websites pay for “ad-free” (somehow).
Cheers.
Kristine
@Ken:
Schrödinger’s Calendar.
I needed a laugh today. Steve + Quantum Calendar = laugh
KrackenJack
@MoCaAce: This seems like topic for BJ After Dark. Cole is tarnishing our family blog reputation.
Kristine
@The Moar You Know: Dogs can manage it, too. I don’t bother feeding Gaby rice with her upset tum cooked chicken because no matter what I do it winds up scattered on the floor around the bowl.
WaterGirl
@Almost Retired: What a great story!
WaterGirl
@Sure Lurkalot: Wow, that was harsh!
WaterGirl
@piratedan: Thanks for trying.
WaterGirl
@geg6: You always have Thurston’s back. I appreciate that about you.
WaterGirl
@Ken: I heard from John when they were in the car on the way to the groomer. I heard Steve, too.
His cries aren’t as plaintive as my little girl who half cries half howls on the way to the vet. But even in the background on the phone, Steve made his feelings known.
ETtheLibrarian
Is it wrong to be excited about this?
WaterGirl
@Anonymous At Work: Just one more reason to be glad the ads are gone here.
WaterGirl
@ETtheLibrarian: To be excited about what? cat shaving? no ads?
CaseyL
@Anonymous At Work: I did **not** know this, and wondered why I was getting so many apps on my phone (where Chrome is the ISP) and none on my laptop (where I use Firefox).
Very good to know. I wonder if I can download Firefox to my phone.
ETtheLibrarian
@WaterGirl: I would like to say no ads but…………
Ohio Mom
@Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff:
Welcome back to The Land Of Commenting. And good luck with your treatment — We’re pulling for you.
Benw
Hudson (90 lbs, powerful) turns into a thrashing ball of panicked terror in the vet parking lot while my son and I struggle to carry him in unless the vet tech lady who’s a weightlifter comes out and sweeps him up and majestically carries him limp and unprotesting into the vet.
Poe Larity
Why aren’t Cat Whisperers a thing?
Decades from now, today’s pet grooming techniques will be seen as torture. Not that it will be illegal as Scalia’s view that it’s not punishment will persist, so the 8th doesn’t apply.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: So many apps or so many ads?
WaterGirl
@Benw: You guys are making me laugh with these vet & groomer stories.
Leto
@Poe Larity: Please don’t let Werebear see this comment…
geg6
@WaterGirl:
Lovey would kill me if I didn’t stand up for her brother. Plus, I’ve met him twice and he’s adorbs.
Sister Golden Bear
@Doc Sardonic: Given it’s Steve, I think a spare bomb technician protective suit might be needed.
raven
We’re having a mini-crisis here. My wife’s brother and his unvaccinated son are coming for a visit. I protested and, after a good argument, we decided to ask the son to take an at-home test. Not great but the best option we could come up with.
CaseyL
@WaterGirl: Oops! Ads. Ads, not apps.
CaseyL
@raven:
Who was the argument with, your wife? Because if not, why isn’t “we don’t want you to be here if you’re not vaccinated” a viable response and plan of action?
Sure Lurkalot
@WaterGirl: It wasn’t meant to be!
raven
@CaseyL: Yea, she invited them and, somehow, it slipped her mind. She hasn’t seen them in a long time and her emotions took over. The dude has had a lot of issues with lymphoma and the law. I was pretty pissed but this seems like the best option.
Mary G.
My cat Shiloh got into something or other and got eight or nine mats all bunched up together on his side. I tried to comb them out gradually from the ends up to no avail.
He is a semi-feral who makes putting flea meds on his neck a huge production and is such a pain I hoped to take care of them myself. I went on Amazon and ordered:
Everything arrived in two days and I laid it all out and I lured him out with his favorite snack. The mats were gone; he had chewed them off himself leaving a bare spot with no wounds whatsoever. I checked his cat cave and other spots and found no sign of them.
The next day I went to sit down at my desk and saw the robovac pushing a 4″x6″ swatch of fur, depositing it neatly right at my feet. It was a miracle from Dog.
CaseyL
@raven:
Oh, yeah, this definitely sounds like someone I’d be thrilled to have visit. /s
Hope the visit is… less traumatic than its potential seems to be. (And maybe from now on, make it a requirement for both you and your wife to check in with each other before inviting people over??)
RaflW
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I’m lucky that my dominant arm is the side I’m far less likely to sleep on.
Just got boosted before lunch today. I decided to go for team Mixalot. P-P-M combo. So far just the most vague sense of soreness in the arm.
bruceJ
I took my 13 year-old GSD to the vet yesterday; it took the vet, two assistants and me to hold her on the exam table long enough to get her nails trimmed, blood drawn, and one vaccine administered…
Afterwards we got her off the table and she sat down like “Is that all you’ve got??”
raven
@CaseyL: It’s not just “coming over”, they are coming from Virginia. It was impromptu with a very complicated back story.
It’s funny you mention checking in. Two years ago she planned my retirement/70th birthday party without telling me and it was the weekend of a home game. The girl lets her heart overrule her head.
jeffreyw
Kayla Rudbek
@Sister Golden Bear: “Cat Bathing as a Martial Art,”
as seen here
lowtechcyclist
From Cole’s Twitter feed:
If I were the groomer, it’s the ‘aerosolized’ part that would have me suggesting he take his business elsewhere.
ETA: Damn, beaten to it by jeffreyw!
Leto
@jeffreyw: 3 out of 4 pet groomers recommend Steveasol.
Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)
@geg6:
Well, Mister’s appointment went well, they’re talking about next appointment in 6 weeks, doing an ultrasound and likely taking a well-earned break from chemo. I quit giving him steroids back in Dec-January when they were telling me “ok, he’s gained enough weight back” and he’s settled in at his normal 18 pounds of shorthaired tabby muscle. He’s got a neck like a pit bull, I swear…
As for me, immunotherapy brought me back from the brink where I had lost way too much weight and then there was the hypercalcemia…and man, this year kinda sucked until recently. Managed to even go to the Maryland Renaissance festival last month. Went down like 6 inches in my waist size from 2019. CT scan last month said many small and less small tumors are gone, and the big one covering the right kidney is about half the size it was in late July.
I really don’t know how to deal with all the gratefulness to be alive and mobile again, humbled by how I’m only here because of good insurance with my job, a GoFundMe, and Opdivo/Yervoy. I’m such a snarky sonofabitch, so I guess I’ll just try to double down on mocking for change.
Skepticat
I take it you don’t read the news.
You have my deepest empathy, as I can’t count the times I’ve had to wrangle three born-feral cats into carriers, into the car, in and out of the carriers in hotels, in and out of a small plane, in and out of customs, back into and out of the plane, and then into a golf cart or a car. I have many scars to prove what fun it is, and I wish you luck.
RaflW
@jeffreyw: I completely understand the senior groomer’s decision to retire.
jeffreyw
@Leto: You would think there is a plug-in for that.
Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)
@Barbara: Thank you. Onward through the fog! Mister might be ending chemo by the end of the year if he’s still in remission. So…my turn.
eclare
My feral cat, Kitty, who disappeared months ago, is back today! I heard Kitty outside, mewing for food. I had thought the worst.
Central Planning
@John Cole:
Why did the groomer shit on Steve three times? Was he going for four and that’s why you added “only”?
Gin & Tonic
@raven:
She married you, no?
Gin & Tonic
I have shocking news to report from Europe
Leto
@jeffreyw: Plug it in, plug it in!
@Central Planning: I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking that ;)
@Gin & Tonic: “Russian officials are saying that he tripped from the 12th floor, where he was last seen, up the stairs to the 40th floor, through the locked roof door, and voluntarily jumped off. Officials continue to say this was a terrible accident and promise to review door locking procedures.” I’m making light but it’s still concerning that Putin is able to carry out executions, at will, in other countries. This just after Germany basically rolled over to Russian aggression in Ukraine.
billcinsd
@JoyceH: I thought that was what Charmin was for?
RaflW
@Gin & Tonic: Ohh, Russians and windows. Drunkenness or FSB (or both?).
eclare
@Gin & Tonic: Saw that. Those Russians, oh so clumsy.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
My, how the windows have turned.
Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)
@Gin & Tonic: Russians have the worst luck with windows.
Ken
Have you not seen the Far Side classic, “What Cats Hear“?
Ken
@Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff): It’s odd, that’s more of a Czech thing.
(Note especially: Often, however, the 1483 event is not recognized as a “significant defenestration”, which leads to some ambiguity when the 1618 defenestration is referred to as the “second Prague defenestration”.)
raven
@Gin & Tonic: ca-chinggggg!
Primer Gray (formerly Yet Another Jeff)
@Ken: Oh, but the press can’t call the defenestrations, defenestrations…we just get “Russian Diplomats Keep Falling on my Head”
WaterGirl
@Mary G.: You need to add the G. to your name in the box by where you comment, and then it will remember the G. next time.
Until you do that, every comment will just show up as Mary
martha
@Leto: ok this is a plot line from the show MI-5 (called Spooks in the UK). I’m all the way to Season 9 and it only goes to season 10! Boooooo. On Amazon, can’t remember if it’s part of my Britbox add-on or just Prime.
Sure Lurkalot
@Gin & Tonic: Now that’s harsh!
Ann Marie
@eclare: Excellent news!
bluefoot
@Doc Sardonic:
I was thinking Cole needs a full-on leather welding jacket and gloves. I use my old, slightly crunchy welding gloves for moving around hot coals, burning wood, and angry animals.
Steve in PHX
Aerosolized shitpaste? There’s an image I’ll have to live with for a while, ’til the memory starts to atrophy. Also proud kitty owner!
Anonymous At Work
@CaseyL: They haven’t changed things YET. It’s a planned change that is known in App/Extension developers area that I caught wind about. If you were disabling ad blockers to prevent browser users from blocking ads that you sold to website, would you announce it from the rooftops?
WaterGirl
@martha: It’s an add-on. Or a channel or whatever the heck they call it.
WaterGirl
@eclare: Oh my gosh, that’s amazing.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Aerosolized shitpaste seems deserving of being part of one of the rotating tag lines in reference to something…maybe a certain news network (or one or more of the affiliated media personalities) that specializes in faux.
WaterGirl
@eclare: One of our jackals took their new girl cat to the vet for a checkup, only to discover that she was chipped, that she was a he, that he was the beloved kitty of someone who had been looking for him for the past 18 months.
Good news, bad news. Sad for our jackal, or at least bittersweet, but joyous for the kitty and the family who got him back.
Imagine the joy of getting your lost cat back after a year and a half.
I don’t want to out our jackal by name, but s/he may jump in if they see this.
edit: Pretty sure eclare can tell us all about that.
Hilfy
@Almost Retired: You are “a better tipper….” WHAT ? Are we supposed to tip cat/dog groomers now? I’ve never heard that before.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@eclare: Do you think the coming of winter might explain the cat’s return?
raven
@WaterGirl: Artie spent the day at the vet after I saw blood in her urine. I tried to capture a sample but the poor thing is terrified of anything in your hand or trying to put it under her. They were able to get the sample and determined some UTI and maybe eColi so antibiotics it is.
eclare
@WaterGirl: I’ve tried to get close to this kitty, to take him/her in to the vet to get a checkup and see if it is chipped. But no luck. All he or she wants is food and water.
misterpuff
New and Improved Cat Sharts: Aerosolized Shitpaste.
eclare
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: Definitely a possibility. Last night was the coldest night so far this fall. Low 30’s.
WaterGirl
@eclare: Maybe this time it will be different.
Signed,
Ever Hopeful
danielx
Vet trips: the ordeal starts with closing all the bedroom doors and closet doors so they can’t hide.
WaterGirl
@raven: My boy kitty who has UTI issues will NOT pee at the vet. You can lock the door to the litter box for hours, then sit him in the room at the vet with a litter box at the vet for 3 hours and he still will not pee there.
Ask me how I know. So they just automatically do the thing where they use a needle to draw urine from the bladder. We have learned to skip the whole hours and hours of other unsuccessful options. I wonder if they did that with Artie?
WaterGirl
@danielx: You have to close all the doors hours and hours before it’s time to leave. Like maybe while they are eating breakfast.
Central Planning
@WaterGirl: One of my cats hates going to the vet. She poops, pisses, and pukes in her car carrier. EVERY TIME.
We have tried taking up the dry food hours and hours before the appointment. Same thing with water. Doesn’t make a difference.
Central Planning
@Leto: Pronoun trouble
WaterGirl
@Central Planning: Cats are always prepared.
raven
@WaterGirl: I think so, they are aware of her fears so they had to go to plan b. I don’t want to think too much about it since I can stand to see her cowering the way she does and we had to find out what was what.
WaterGirl
@raven: Mr. Bear tells me that the needle thing is no big deal.
jeepers
Natalie is way cuter and more spunky than Sharona. Sorry, but that’s just the facts.
Shana
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My friend’s daughter, who is in med school, suggested a light workout with small weights and arm curls.
I have had both my covid booster and 2nd shingles shots in a little over 2 weeks and both put me in a 1 day mini-flu funk, chills, aches, tired. I think I’m done now for the year.
Shana
@Gin & Tonic: Weird how that keeps happening.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Wow, they eat their own now.
Pete Mack
@Anonymous At Work:
I installed Edge because the T-mobile 3rd party skin for Chrome is hideous. You might want to pick a different browser, too.
Almost Retired
@Hilfy: The credit card receipt at the groomer’s includes three options for a tip, based on different percentages of the total price. But I’m in Los Angeles. ‘Tis a silly place, to quote King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
KrakenJack
@jeffreyw:
Much as I enjoy the pet pics, I’ll stick with spider plants and the calendar, TYVM
Just One More Canuck
@wombat probability cloud: You may think that if it brings you comfort