Subj : Biscuits was: Olives
To   : Shawn Highfield
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Feb 08 2025 13:31:32

Hi Shawn,

 RH> family disagreed. So, they ended up as Simon and Andrew. Andrew
 RH> passed away a few months later (genetic heart defect), Simon lived
 RH> for about 17 years before feline leukemia got him.

 SH> Oh wow, at least you had a long time with Simon.  Our last cats were
 SH> 14 and 16 when they passed.  Mikey died at 14 he had a problem with
 SH> his liver, and Ruby just wasted away until we asked the vet to put her
 SH> down.

No, not actually as we got him (them) just before my last year of
college. Got married the following September so it was just whenever we
came to visit that we saw him.

 RH> His favorite food was mashed potatoes.

 SH> I've never known a cat to eat that!  We're cat sitting my friend's
 SH> while they are visiting her parents for 3 months.  Pickle is a Russian
 SH> Blue I think, and he's quite the friendly gentleman.  He loves our bed
 SH> and to lie on top of the electric blanket.  LOL

Our Jenny-cat (adopted in Germany, had been abused as a kitten) loved
her hiding spots. We had basically a king size bed in Berlin, with
standard size pillows. She would crawl into the space betwen the
pillows, then further down under the comforter. Always knew that if we
saw a lump in the bed, it was Jenny. She had no particular favorite food
but definatly disliked lamb and rice. She had some health problems so
the vet put her on a lamb and rice diet--she went on a hunger strike.
Ever see a cat push away a dish of food? She did, so the vet said to put
her back on her regular diet.

 RH> back. We saw more of him than a couple of my siblings who lived much
 RH> closer.

 SH> I haven't actually seen my sister in 10 years, but we talk.  She lives
 SH> about 3 blocks from my parents. LOL.  We were going to visit tomorrow
 SH> but there's some bad weather on the way, so we cancelled for now.

I've been following the weather on the news, not anticipating any travel
up north but sometimes we don't know much in advance if we have to or
not (thinking specifically funerals). I've not seen my siblings in some
years, probably since Dad passed away in 2017 for one sibling, maybe 5
minutes in 2018 for the other 2. Just basically resumed communication
with one in the last 6 months.


 RH> it's something I need to be aware of.

 SH> Yes it runs in our family as well.

Some things are so hard wired in their brains that it's hard, even with
dementia, to give up. We were visiting my parents (before Mom went into
the nursing home); I was taking care of the meals/clean up. Late one
afternoon she got up from her chair and started toward the kitchen. I
intercepted her, asking what she was doing. She said that she had to
start supper. We'd planned to get take out Chinese that night so I told
her that it was taken care of--really took a lot of persuasion to get
her to understand that she didn't have to do what she'd been doing for
so many years.

 SH> ... I'm not broke, I'm just badly bent.

Love it! We were both badly bent out of shape earlier this week. Sunday
afternoon Steve came down with a noro-type virus, got pretty much over
it by Tuesday. It hit me in the wee small hours of Wednesday morning;
I've just had the most substantual meal since Tuesday's supper.
Basically liquids the first day, a bit of bread with the liquids the
next couple of days and then some chicken noodle soup last night. By
tomorrow I should be back to just about normal, whatever that is,
besides a setting on my washer. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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