Chyla Kitty has picked up a funny habit
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My central heat and air unit is going out, and I have no air conditioning. I'll buy one in spring. Heat will work over winter. But it's so cold in the evenings, all I have to do is open the windows and it cools it all down overnight. I have acquired a meerkat. Or meerCat. She's on such alert, she sits up on her hind legs whenever something goes by outside, including squirrels or the wind blows or car drives by.
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Comments (32)http://www.thecatgallery.com/himalayan_cat_models_page_8.html I hope this works. I don't know how you guys put links on this forum. Anyway, you must see the picture that goes with the story below. It's hilarious. "My sister-in law is from Oklahoma and has a slight accent. She has cats and when she lived in the south she would take them to the groomers and have what is called a Line Cut. To her a line cut is when all of the fur hanging down below the cat's tummy is taken off (because it gets matted or snarled). When she moved to Chicago with my brother, one of the cats fur got all tangled up during the move so she took it in for a line cut. She was quite surprised when she heard the price as it was twice as much as it was down south. She confirmed with the groomer that he understood what a line cut was and he said "yes, I know what a LION cut is." It seems her accent came out sounding like LION not LINE and this is how her cat was returned to her. (see PHOTOS) She cried for a week...but not as much as the cat. It was November in Chicago and the cat needed all the fur it had." Gas in car to go to groomers.....$4.50 Cat car carrier.....$32.99 Grooming fee.....$80.00 Getting the look from one seriously ticked off cat.....Priceless!...See MoreIf you see a penny do you pick it up????
Comments (90)Hi Bill, Sorry about your back. My friends gave me a "Merry Christmas" hat on Christmas Eve ... that the high wind blew off of my head after Christmas Eve communion at church, as I approached my back door. Found it in the morning ... frozen in. Slipped on ice, chopped it free with shovel, took it to the giver's house ... who took a pic of it, with ice on the peak, while it sat on my head. Later in the day, going to a friend's house for Christmas supper, slipped on glare ice while retrieving the hat to show him, fell heavily. A couple of days later, felt twinges in back, it got quite hurtful for a time when I moved in certain ways. It took about two months for it get back to normal, and during that time I'd have had a hard time getting down to pick up money, whether a penny or something more, or other thing of value, on the ground ... but, as I'm reasonably (or unreasonably) stubborn, I'd have probably found a way! Anyway, the back's almost completely back to normal now ... and I don't think that it cost me any unretrieved pennies during the ordeal (well, not really an "ordeal", unless one chooses to more or less make a mountain out of a molehill). Found a couple of pennies on the ground in the last while. By the way - how many coin slots in pay phones do you check out, for coin taking their ease therein? I haven't found any in quite a while, but find some from time to time. Once, when a couple of charities were collecting at the exit from a chain grocery ... I found two coins, in two phones ... and they got them. Don't think that I'd ever found two coins in two phones before ... or since! Good wishes for keeping our eye out for pennies! And not only hanging on to yours ... but putting them to work wisely! ole joyful...See More- last yearlast modified: last year
I'll buy it in March. There is no good time here. I'm buying it early enough that other people will not be buying new systems, because they don't know yet. But buying AC in the south, there is no good season.
I have a dude and a price. There's no point in buying it now, when I'm down to days? Who knows what will happen in the next few months? It can wait
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last yearI recently got the wooden cat perch in these pics from Etsy. They hold 25#, are portable & easily moved. Cost was $25. I found my dog sitting on window sill gazing into back yard & up into trees scanning for the squirrels who roam in great numbers out there. The perch & then the addition of the stairs for easy up / down, makes it her favorite sitting spot. The perch might be a great deal for your meercat Chyla - she can jump on right from that chair. My little Papillon is a retired show girl who came to live with us last November. It took awhile for her personality to fully emerge so that’s why the perch & steps. We’re adapting our home for her convenience…..
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