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Friday, February 26, 2016

Can you see it?

Anna, here. I've been able to get back at my crafting and craft blogging again lately, which has been healthy for my psyche. A couple of days ago, I set things up to do a shoot of a crown I'd made, that included putting down a piece of red velvet I have.

I figured it was appropriate for a crown, don't you think?

The crown is on a glass lazy susan, which allowed me to take photos at different angles without actually having to handle the crown. It worked out rather well. After I took the photos and removed it, however, I noticed that the little "legs" under the base had left marks in the velvet. It didn't take long for that to happen at all.

I moved the lazy susan, but I didn't bother to move the velvet away, thinking I might use it again soon. Which is why it was still there, yesterday, when I happened to glance at it and noticed something odd.

Can you see it?

I know, taking photos of red is always a challenge for cameras, but it's still there.

Not the dust and cat hair, though that should give you a hint.

Can you see it on here? It's the same photo as above, but I used post processing to try and bring it out a bit more.

You can see parts of it a lot more clearly at an angle.

Yes, those are kitty paw prints.

And kitty leg prints.

And a kitty butt print.

One of our cats got on my table and sat there long enough to leave a butt print in the velvet.

Along with the hair.

Now I have to figure out how to clean the fuzz off, as well as how to remove cat indentations.

Note for future reference. Do not leave things out on the table that I don't want the cats to "decorate."

Saturday, May 31, 2014

A Losing Battle

The cats keep going on my craft table, dragging out my quilt batting, then sleeping on it.

I keep taking it from them, rolling it back up again, and putting it away.

I think I'm fighting a losing battle on this one.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

A Mystery

This morning, I found this on our van.

It wasn't there yesterday - at least not when I parked my van, after getting it washed, in the late afternoon.

The scrape is a fair bit deeper on the bumper, but this is the part that perplexes me...

Yes, the scrape continues right at the top, too. This confuses me, because the corner of the van is not a straight line. Where it's scraped here is part of an inward curve. That means whatever hit us had to have somehow... tilted? Bent? Had sides that curved outwards at the top?

So whatever hit our van had to have been at least as tall as the van itself, and white. It also had to have happened either yesterday evening, or last night.

Most likely scenario; a box truck tried to turn around in our neighbour's parking spot. We are the very first parking spot, and both our spot and our neighbour's are awkward to get into because of how we are oriented with the building. Plus, we have a longer vehicle and stick out a fair bit, unable to go farther forward because of unusually high curbs.

Will have to pay a visit to our office and see what the security cameras picked up.

*sigh*

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Meat Nest

Well, it's that time of year again!

Actually, with things being the way they have been, I finally had to acknowledge that I would not be able to do our Christmas tourtiere this year.

So my daughters are doing them, instead.

They're not going to be the same as our usual ones, as we weren't able to get the variety of meats we normally use, but the basic recipe is the same. We also won't be making as many as we usually do - probably just 3 or 4 pies. It's still enough to use the big pot, though, which won't fit in our refrigerator.

My daughters made the filling, and now the pot is on the balcony, in its own little meat nest in the snow, to cool down.

Hey, if we're going to be colder than Mars, we may was well take advantage of the situation!

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

So Faaaaahbulous!

Have I mentioned that we're sucks when it comes to our elderly cat?

Yes, these are her new, fabulously pink toenails.

There is a reason behind this madness, however.

This is our 15-or-so year old cat, Tiger. She hasn't been able to retract her claws very well for some time now, and they are huge and very sharp. They are also brittle. When we try to trim them, they crack and split, exposing the nerve. So we have stopped trimming them.

While it's rough on the clothes, the real problem with this is that she has started going after the carpets again. When we first moved here, she went after the carpeted stairs with a vengeance, completely ignoring her scratching tower. We ended up having to cover our stairs with plastic runners to get her to stop. And it worked.

Until now.

There are still a couple of inches of exposed carpet on either side of the runner, and she's suddenly started to go after them. She has also discovered a slight bump in the carpet that formed under a heavy bookshelf and started to claw on that.

Yes, we do have scratching posts. She doesn't use them.

So to save our carpets (and our clothes!), we got these little plastic claw covers. They're glued on and are supposed to last 4-8 weeks.

She seems quite content with them.

We ended up putting some on our other cat, but just on his front paws. Sparkly pink ones. It was rather amusing, the first time he tried to climb up the couch with them!

These things are turning out to be worth the investment!

Update: I didn't realize my husband had already posted a photo of our cat's new look. For the record, the other cat did not manage to chew off the pink ones. They're just not as visible.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Fashion statement

So my daughter's cat is a little old... and by Old I mean deaf, mainly blind and unable to retract her claws anymore. but she still loves to destroy carpeting, especially on the stairs. We found these little gems at the local PetSmart and I have to say they're definitely worth the money. Results may vary however, as our younger cat who got the same treatment ate them right off within minutes :D.