06/06/2022 – Skeptic

Skeptic © Colehauscats.com
Skeptic © Colehauscats.com

Don’t you just hate it when a company says they’re going to do something, and you prepare for that thing to happen, often inconveniencing yourself and your loved ones in the process . . . and then, the company cancels at the last minute, or worse, never shows up in the first place? Don’t you?

Oh, the things we are learning in this shower leak/bathroom redo experience. For those keeping track and marking cards, we’ve been stood up four times now by three different businesses. We thought for sure someone would have called out, “BINGO!” by now. The company who was supposed to come fix one of our bathrooms last week, didn’t come out. Another weekend of showering out of a bucket.

Anyhoo, Dad may or may not have shower leak #2 repair workers in the house late today, and coming home late from work as usual, Mom may or may not have to try to sleep while they are still working. During all this, yet another company may or may not arrive to take flooring measurements around that ruined carpet.

Or, we can go through the rest of this experience being skeptics like Tessa, not getting all wrapped up in whether or not anyone will ever arrive, and of whom we should probably have listened to in the first place.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018Why Not Wednesday – Things on Cats
2017 – No post
2016MultiCat Monday
2015 – No post
2014Pia’s Internet Habit
2013 – No post
2012Gray. It’s the New Black.

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06/01/2022 – Hello June

Guard of the stairs © Colehauscats.com
Guard of the stairs © Colehauscats.com

Without the secret password, you aren’t getting up or down the stairs either.

Password, shmassword © Colehauscats.com
Password, shmassword © Colehauscats.com

See what I have to put up with?

Olivia and Viola’s power struggle continues. Thankfully, Viola’s peeing on the floor has not, though everyone seems to want to use the downstairs litter box now at least once a day, if for no other reason than to make sure their smell is in it.

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Lloyd peeks in © Colehauscats.com
Lloyd peeks in © Colehauscats.com

Meanwhile outside, during one of Lloyd’s visits, Mom offered him a chicken/catnip treat . . . and Lloyd loved it so much, he accepted pets! He’s so handsome! Mom says his fur is thin in spots and rough and she thinks he could use a good brushing. So, that’s her mission. To lure him in with treats, then get him used to being brushed. If he likes it, maybe brushing will replace the treats. And Mom promises photo proof coming soon!

Flirty Tippy © Colehauscats.com
Flirty Tippy © Colehauscats.com

Someone who isn’t swayed by treats is Tippy. He has just a bit more street-smarts than Lloyd, we think. He loves the chicken/catnip treats but no way will he come any closer than four feet. Doesn’t stop him from rolling around flirtatiously nearby. We think he really does want to become friends. Maybe sometime this summer?

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We’re taking Friday off since we’ll have workers here very early fixing one of our showers. After that, we can finally start working on scheduling our main shower repair, which looks like won’t happen until sometime in August now. Hey, it’ll only be five months without that bathroom by then!

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2021 – No post
2020Around Colehaus
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016Three Word Wednesday
2015Happy June!
2014 – No post
2013 – No post
2012Never forget, I’m THE Cat!

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05/30/2022 – Just Another Monday

Quiet Tessa © Colehauscats.com
Quiet Tessa © Colehauscats.com

A quiet day here today. No holiday for Mom who recently discovered her job doesn’t offer any holiday days off but does pay time and a half for the first eight hours on a holiday after forty hours are worked (hers is a twelve-hour a day job).

Dad’s here, watching over things, this being his usual day off. As long as no one goes on a barf-o-rama spree, he’ll have a quiet day, too. Because Thursday promises to be the warmest day we’ve yet had this year (80 degrees F.), all cats will save their barf for then, which is Mom’s day off, and the day workers are scheduled to fix shower leak #2.

Thank YOU again, dear friends of Colehaus Cats for kindly donating toward Quint’s recent vet stay. And thank YOU so much for your kind words, good thoughts, cat litter, and food from our Amazon wish list. Quint’s feeling much better and sends thank you purrs to every one of you. Thank you.

Quint purrs thanks © Colehauscats.com
Quint purrs thanks © Colehauscats.com

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018Deep Thoughts, by Pia
2017 – No post
2016Memorial Day
2015 – No post
2014Tessa Time
2013 – No post
2012 – No post

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