Tuesday Night's Dinner Plans? 11/26/2024

I have nothing planned for tonight. Lunch at work today was leftover spaghetti with Italian sausage from Sunday. I'll probably just snack on cheese & crackers tonight.

Sounds good to me!

You may keep your share of the parsnips. ;)

Jill

Are you sure you don't want some?? They're not terrible, but not great either. I don't think I'll be blowing the grocery budget on them.

LOL Parsnips have never been my cup of tea.

I'm dealing with computer problems at the moment. I'm going to have to replace this old laptop with a new one. Not looking forward to doing the file transfer thing and setting everything back up.

Oh, more of a priority: I'm adopting a kitten on Friday! She's about 4 months old. She's a grey tabby with a white face and white blaze on her chest. She was abandoned and taken in by a nice couple who already have

Jill

I got a new laptop almost two years ago and I found out if I plug a thumb drive into one of its' ports I can copy everything from the old p.c. to the new one in one fell swoop. Plug it into a slot on the new laptop, open it, and voilà! everything is on the new computer. Just make sure the thumb drive is large enough and hang on to it in case you hit a snag.

YAY!!!!! Be sure and post pictures of her!! Maybe it's my imagination, but tabbies are so sweet in their nature.

Please don't!

You don't have to look at them. And keep in mind, unlike the "UK mindset", I have never, ever let my cats go outside. Indoor only. The birds are safe and so is the cat.

Jill

I may be from England but I don't necessarily share the average Englishman's mindset:-) It was a cat-loving, High Court judge in the 19th or early 20th Century who ruled that the bloody things should be allowed to roam freely as that was only natural. He didn't feel the same way about dogs!

I always wondered about that. Thanks for the background on it!

I'm typical American. Cats and dogs indoors, exceptions for dogs to go pee in a fenced yard or on leash on a walk.

I've never understood why anyone would think domesticated cats belong outside. I used to cat-sit for a former neighbor who insisted her two cats be let outside during the day. One cat (Schwartzie) showed no interest, preferring to snooze on the couch, so when I was cat-sitting I let him do that. Her other cat, Fedders, loved going outside. Sometimes I couldn't find him to get him inside in the evening. I'd call and call for him. As you can imagine, if he didn't show up I worried something had happened to him. (This was the same neighbor who called me one morning to ask if I knew there was an alligator in my back yard.) I never understood her attitude about cats needing to roam around outdoors.

Jill

Yet we often see cats in our yard that are obviously not feral. Whenever we spot a cat in the yard, one of us runs outside and hisses at it until it legs it out of sight.

Leave 'em alone! They keep the vermin at bay.

They kill birds. A while back we had one that killed baby rabbits for fun.

They don't do squat for vermin. We have possums, raccoons, groundhogs, gray squirrels, red squirrels, chipmunks, some sort of mouse, moles, and skunks.

Once in a while I see a fox. I think the coyotes moved into town, where the pickings are easier.

Those cat owners can just keep the things indoors. If we manage to trap one, my husband pisses on it and lets it go home.

That's a rather interesting solution.

Jill

Urine over your head.

Wow, that's a LOT of pent up aggression for a stray cat!

Here's a clue - kitty lives in the moment - your hubby's abuse just makes it hate humans. It cannot link events.

It's gross and cruel is what you ought to have said.