What I have done and what I have yet to do

[ailbhe]

Well, another lot of flea-treatment has been done, and I brought the duvet to the laundrette, who washed it, and I found out about their bridal dress services, and I read High Fidelity, which surprised me, and Room at the Top, and started Here comes Thursday!. I bought a foot file to deal with the callouses on my heels and started sorting out crash space for the myriad afpers who are coming to this meet. I made four necklaces, none of which are particularly dreadful, even if ordering beads online meant that the colours aren't quite what I expected. I listened to the radio. I ate some of the bread I baked yesterday in ourr new breadmaker - it didn't rise properly, so it was a bit heavy, and it's a bit dull (I think I need to put something in it; plain wholemeal is bland as all get out, so the wholegrain we buy from the shop is nicer) but it was ok. It was either the lack of a vitamin C tablet or the old yeast.

I was woken at 06:30 by a new, itchy fleabite. 3 cats + summer = itch. For some reason, they hardly nibble on Rob, and they leap on me with fangs akimbo whenever they think I'm not looking or can't reach.

Bah.

Yet to do...

• Wash up
• Clear kitchen
• Clear dining table
• Clear spare bedroom so that it can be my office again
• Persuade Rob to go to Wickes and buy the wood for the TV cabinet he promised me - I wanted a shelf, which I could have done myself, but he said he'd do a TV cabinet. Meanwhile the clutter is driving me crazy and I can't do anything about it (in the library. The library is all stacked up now and only more shelving will help).
• Bake white bread for Rob.
• Study some. At least, work out what I should feel guilty for failing to study.

Comments

[bunnyk.livejournal.com]

Try putting garlic capsules in the cats' dinners - if they're as finicky as most are, break them open/try garlic pills - yeah, I know, getting cats to take a pill = ! We used to do it for our cat, when she was still alive, and still do it for the dog. He's flea free, and so was she!

Cats and hot weather

[artela.livejournal.com]

Sympathies.

Monday night was "take a tablet" night for the cats in our household... himself still has the scratches to prove it (it took 4 attempts to get Brenin to take his - he is very good at holding out and then spitting the pill out... he is also very strong and has sharp claws. I won't let himself use the "towel" trick though as brenin is a cat who likes to be towel-dried when wet, and I don't want to give him a phobia about towels. Tish, on the other hand, hardly puts up a struggle over pills).

Last night was "frontline" night... this is my job - Brenin takes this one in his stride and doesn't hardly fuss at all while it's done - this is where Tish comes into her own and becomes the whirling dervish of claws and teeth.

Never mind - that's all over for another month now, and at the weekend I get to do housework (including a complete spray of carpets and cat favourite hidey holes). We don't have many little visitors yet, and those we do have seem to prefer cat to person... and I intend to try and keep it that way or better! (My goal is zero visitors.)

Re: Cats and hot weather

[ailbhe]

The weird thing is that combing shows that our cats only have 1 or 2 fleas each. Also, they've been outdoors since the hot weather started, hardly coming in at all and then only to eat (and Dust comes to help Rob work a bit). I think we had a low-level of fleas which preferred cats to human, then the cats vanished and they responded to starvation by breeding.