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Kittens in the trash

Busy weekend. Since I have hurt my wrist (it’s getting much better, thanks), I have been slacking on my chores, so I worked on catching up on dishes and laundry and trash and whatnot this weekend.

Anyway, to the real story. I woke up this morning with a Kitten in bed with me… again. Sister snuck this one in bed with me this time, so I didn’t wake up. I found one kitten in the middle of the kitchen floor. You would never guess where I found the 3rd one (besides the fact I told you in the subject). That’s right, I found a kitten in the trash!
It had apparently climbed what little is left of my laundry, and into the tipped over trash can that has my dryer-lint in it. I really wish i wasn’t so groggy and had grabbed the camera before I grabbed the kitten. It was all sprawled out, looking happy as a clam.

Oh, if you haven’t guessed, they kittens are now big enough to be exploring now. They can run halfway across the apartment in a single sprint. They are climbing small boxes.

Anyone want a kitten or 3? They are SO adorable right now.

Kittens in the Kitchen

No, no, I am not cooking the kittens.

Sister decided that she was going to ‘hide’ them in the dining room. Considering it took me the longest to find them this ‘hiding’, I think it’s quite brilliant on her part.

Some other bonuses are – she can feed them while eating, they can chase after me as well as her, and well, I get to see how adorable they are all evening long.

The kittens are getting so big. They are up and walking. They have learned how to pee on their own, and do so regularly all over the place – Mom, I am going to need to borrow the steam cleaner again.

I went to the store and picked up some all natural corn cob kitty litter for the little ones. From what I read, they are just like human babies, and everything goes into the mouth. The clay based clumping litter I used will give them all sorts of grief if they eat it, so it’s corn for the kittens. I also picked up some kitten food for when they start eating solid food.

I started putting down their formula in a tray, but I can’t get them to give it a try before Sister eats it all up first. The dark one has been the most successful, chewing on the tasty plastic side of the lid I am using for a dish.

After a week of full nights of sleep, Sister has brought the kittens into bed with me for the last 2 nights now. I wonder what her obsession is. I am guessing she wants to both sleep in my bed, and watch the kittens too. I really wish she would let me sleep though. I don’t sleep very well when I am worried about rolling over and crushing a kitten.

New hot water heater

So, I woke up this morning, go to get in to the shower, and it’s COLD.
I waited, no hot water. I thought nothing of it, I was running late, so no shower this morning.
On my way out the door, I hear running water behind the door that I assume is going downstairs. Again, tired, no shower, I thought nothing of it.

I come home for lunch, and look what I see next to the dumpster.

It looks like it is toast. All rotted out in the bottom. It has my unit number on it. I turned my water on, and it spit and sputtered at me. So, it looks like I got a new hot water heater today.

400 Posts

Can you believe it? This is my 400th blog post.
I started my blog way back at the beginning of 2006.
It’s interesting watching the traffic over the last couple of years.

You can see that traffic has been going up over the years. My best day is 70 visits in a single day. That’s pretty impressive being that I basically talk about myself.
The single most popular topic has been my fishtank stuff. The next biggest draw is my Kayak.

I have tried to post at least a single photo on every post. I have chewed up over 500mb of hard drive space on my host. That is pretty impressive, if you ask me. Lately, I have been doing videos. I like the video format. So I think I will work on my video editing skills and keep posting the videos.

Some of my tags are getting pretty full, so I may need to work on re-tagging the posts so that the individual tags are a bit smaller.

I put Google Adsense on by blog so I could play with it in case I ended up doing a website for somebody that wanted it. To date I have earned $22.81. I will get a check when that reaches $100, so in about 6 years I will be getting my first Adsense check. LOL

I have had a couple of site redesigns. This one is pretty good, I want to make some minor cosmetic changes. I like the structural layout, I just need to update and tweak the imagery on it. I also want to update the page to make it a little ‘smarter’, like having topical RSS feeds, so people can subscribe to an individual topic if they so chose.

If you have any suggestions on what I should do with my blog, feel free to leave a comment and let me know. Thanks!

internet & kittens

Finally got the internet today at around 9:15. Evidently they had hooked up someone else. Hrmph. This Apartment building is 30 years old. You would think they figured out how to hook up the right phone line by now. I mean, come on, somebody moves in and out every year, so that’s 30 hookups and disconnects. You would think they would figure out a better way.

Anyway. It is currently being tested, and the downloads look like they are coming down at full speed. So I am happy about that.

So, I come home today, and everybody is in my bed.