Aw, congratulations to you and Gizmo!

When I lost my 19 year old Gracie last year I decided I was too old to take on another cat and life was easier not having to worry about and take care of a pet. A few weeks ago someone posted a picture of a cat on Facebook. It looked so much like Gracie that I contacted the person and said I wanted to see the cat in person.

It was living in the woods behind her house and her cat had been hissing at it. I said I was not sure if I could keep the cat if she caught it, but said I would find it a home if I could not keep it myself. I gave her food and a trap to use. She did not need the trap because a day later she was outside and the cat came to her easily. She put it in a carrier and took it to my house.

I had to get some cat food and a litterbox and decided to see if it was tame enough to keep in an apartment. It ended up that the poor cat is a male about two years old who had been declawed. He had a chip but I can not find his owner. He is extremely affectionate and well behaved. He was also very clean and well fed so had not been out there for very long. I am going to keep him and named him Gizmo. I think it was the day we were coming up with pet fantasy names that I got him.

The vet found no diseases but a bunch of minor scratches probably from him being attacked by other cats while out in the woods. He would not have lasted much longer out there and I do not know the cir****tances but it sickens me that someone most likely just threw him away.

Good morning!

Just leaving this here for the accountability. Yesterday I clocked 26 minutes of exercise and 6703 steps. I got my bathroom cabinet cleaned out and reorganized. I love that feeling of opening it and seeing it all spotless and organized. I ended up at the neighbors for dinner and enjoyed 1 and 1/2 glasses of wine on the deck. We have a huge Ocktoberfest in our village and Rog and his buddies went. Picture on Friday!

Today I have completed my HIIT class and I did the mini summit for Mt. Helix. HIIT class was at the top this week. 9 reps of the stairs doing singles, doubles and then 5 with squats, push ups and triceps' dips, repeat to the top. 7 weight and resistance stations at the bottom Xs 3. I am pooped. I need to shower, eat and then head off for a DEXA scan. Fingers crossed that 2 years of intentional work will show an improvement over my last scan and I don't have to start any meds. And then grocery shopping.

QoTD: Black dog and Brown dog. So spoiled

Bites today

B: last of the pork chop

L: beef taco, 1/4 c refried beans.

D: Not 100% sure yet. But maybe chicken Caesar salad.

Peace!

Monday yuck. Wish I was home in bed still. The fishing trip was so much fun, but I'm so tired. I forgot how exhausting it is to be out on the water all day. We fished for Sea Bass and Blue fish. I caught a few bass, but I was too tired to have to deal with the bluefish those suckers can fight hard and my left shoulder was killing me after 4 hours of fishing for the bass. The weather was perfect for being on the sound in October and in the end everyone got to take some bass and blue fillets home. The crew of the charter were so nice and funny as hell. We plan to go next Summer with a few friends on a more private charter with not so many people.

Oh funny thing that did happen when we went to board the boat. I had a big baggie of homemade jerky under my arm and deck boss stopped me asking what I had. I told him jerky he asked to see it as he thought it was a big bag of weed. LOL Like I would just be carrying a bag of marijuana around with me for everyone to see. We all laughed about it.

QOTD: In the house is a 3 y/o German Shepherd Meisha who is a pain in the ass and can't leave you alone for 1 second and a grumpy 10 y/o Manx cat Finley who would rather watch you die than do anything useful like catch a mouse. Outside there is the 12 y/o Gypsy Vanner April who besides acting like she's starving all the time is a good mare and a love bug. Then there are the two goats and I lost count of how many chickens we have.

Not sure what I'm going to eat today, just kind of been picking at the jerky. I feel like just drinking coffee all day since it's rainy and dreary and I want to go back to bed.

Have a nice day everyone.

Mornin' All!

glad to hear the rash is almost completely gone, Amy!!

another beautiful day and the wind speed is fine for biking! So I'll head out in a few. It's supposed to be in the mid-60s this afternoon but it's still in the mid-50s now, but that should be fine - I'll just dress for it. I promised the editor of the university retiree newsletter that I'd do a book review for the November issue, so I'll take my library card with me and stop at one of the public library branches while I'm out biking. I hope something on the "new book" shelf will jump out at me. I have so much reading to do for my classes that I've got to find something that'll get me completely hooked so I'll fini****!

my cousin from Seattle will be here later today. She and her husband have been visiting relatives of his who live in western Minnesota, and they're now (or will be soon) en route to Chicago. They have an Airbnb in one of the Madison suburbs for the night. It'll be so great to see her. I haven't seen her since 1997, and my mom hasn't seen her since 1984 (this cousin is on my dad's side).

accountability hasn't been that great. Not awful, but not good, either. So I'm back at it. I'm sure we'll be going out to dinner tonight with my cousin and her husband, so hopefully I can stick to something safe.

QOTD: we have four Turkish Van cats. I never wanted to perpetuate selective breeding (too many homeless cats out there!), but I was really fascinated with this breed after seeing a documentary about them when I was in Turkey several years ago. So three of mine are retired show cats (the cattery didn't need them any more since show careers typically only last only a year or two - and only one of them was kept on an additional year as a stud after his show career was over). The fourth one has a neurological issue (cerebellar hypoplasia - but fortunately a mild case), so of course he couldn't be shown, bred, or even sold. So I don't feel too bad since all four of them were no longer needed or wanted, but they needed a. home, so... Anyway, we have Aytekin (age 19), Minik (age 14), Anubis (also age 14), and Kardelen (age 10). (all but Anubis are Turkish names (all changed from whatever names the breeder gave them). Anubis is the name of an Egyptian god. I wanted to re-name him to something Turkish, but DH really liked the name Anubis, so we ended up just keeping it)

coffee with half & half

grilled peach topped with plain skyr, cinnamon, and SF maple syrup

maybe Loma Linda taco filling with tomatoes, plain Greek yogurt, and salsa again (I need to use up the tomatoes)

protein shake or protein muffin

dinner TBA

have a great day, everyone!