Hunters? November 10, 2005
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So, I was putting my laundry in the dryer, and all of a sudden I hear the doorbell — maybe. The washer/dryer is in the downstairs half bathroom, which is immediately to your left when you walk in our door, so it’s possible I was just hearing things … ironically it’s harder to hear the doorbell from that room and it’s right next to the door. So, anyways, I look in the peephole … no one there. So I open the door just to be sure it wasn’t a neighbor kid (they are constantly throwing balls and other odd objects in our backyard … we’re fenced-in so no one can access it but us) and all of a sudden someting jumps on my hand! I thought it was a gecko … no big deal, see them all the time. So my cats start chasing around whatever it was, and it happened to be a huge cockroach! Yuck! I turn into girly-girl when I see huge gross bugs and usually I’m throwing out little girl screams while I’m trying to chase/kill/run away from the thing. So I was kind of relying on my cats to “clean up” the mess … they wouldn’t stop playing with the darn thing! I finally had to beat it down with a stick and get it into a cup to throw it outside. Those cats will eat a gecko faster than they will kill a bug … they don’t get outside much. At least it wasn’t a giant centipede … one time seeing one of those things in my house was enough to scare the poop out of me for a lifetime!
Kitties November 10, 2005
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Kashi and Fuji came home today from the vet. They seem like they’re doing just fine … poor Kashi has to wear this lovely contraption to keep from licking his stitches, but, other than that little annoyance, they don’t seem to be in any pain :) It is kinda funny watching Kashi try and walk around with this thing on! He keeps bumping it into things and tried to push himself into the kennel at one point, even though the guard wouldn’t let him fit in it! I’ll have to keep them locked up most of the time to keep them from jumping around and possibly opening the stiches. The poor little guys!
Hike November 8, 2005
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Yesterday I went on a hike with some of the people I work with. We hiked three to four miles, and saw some beautiful scenes! Since it was my first hike on Oahu, it was an eye-opener to see all the nature that this island still has. Most of what I see are roads, buildings, and pineapple fields, so it was good to see the more beautiful aspect of this island. Today I take my kitties to the vet for their check-up before they get neutered tomorrow. I feel so bad for the poor guys! I’m having them declawed as well, which I feel even worse for doing, yet I feel it is a necessary evil that must be done. They don’t wreak too much havoc on the furniture yet (though the furniture we have isn’t exactly nice), but I’m mostly concerned with the cats playing with and potentially scratching our future kids. I love my kitties so much (laugh all you want … if you don’t love animals you’ll never understand!) and I’d hate to have to get rid of them after we have kids. But I feel so bad for them that they have to go through all the ickiness of the surgeries.
Photo taken in Oahu, Hawaii and is Copyright Nicole Young, 2005.
