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Water Management

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Azeena

What is the human body is about 70 percent water?? Most living things need it. Jean Claude and Roxie for sure. They drink from filtered water containers at my house and CCL’s house. Still, I have seen paw prints in the bath tub and yes, in case you were wondering, JC knows how to cut on the cold water.

JC and Roxie also like to come outside when I’m watering my garden. Roxie will often supervise. Water is also a tool in managing their outside activities. I use a squirt water bottle to get them to go into the house when they come outside. Roxie doesn’t like it all but Jean Claude can take squirting event soaking as long as you don’t him in the face.

Addendum 6/24…later that evening I let Jean Claude and Roxie outside. Roxie dashed lightening speed to the tree in my back yard and refused to come in, hiding under chairs etc. Finally had to use the squirt bottle to spray her little behind to get her in the house.

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Affection

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Azeena

My co-workers dog has a sports injury. Yep a wrong catch of the frisbee. Right now the dog, a Labrador, is enjoying Matt’s attention as it requires him putting a pack of ice on the injury and laying down next to him. We both laughed about it as we know the dog, clearly a sports enthusiast, will become bored.
Roxie is like that about the laser toy.

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The Male Species

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Azeena

Jean Claude just came back in -again . I let him out in the back yard this morning. He was visiting my neighbor’s yard but my other neighbor let her dog out and he and Jean Claude are not so chummy these days. I tend to leave Jean Claude outside and close the door. He’s a pretty large cat and he can take care of himself. Roxie, a female Japanese bobtail, is so tiny I encourage her to come in when I do as she really seems to lack a sense of direction and has been known to run off and stay out all night. Jean Claude – I know eventually he’ll knock to let me know he wants to come back in the house or he’ll cry out. Bombays, I’ve read, think they are dogs. Jean Claude certainly fits the mode. For sure he knows he’s a “male.” Last night I came in pretty late , around 11, and he just breezed right past me when I opened the door and escaped into the night. I just let him go hang. I wasn’t chasing him. Around 2 am I heard him at the front door and came down and let him in the house. Typical.

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Preparation

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Azeena

Spent little time working my garden this weekend. Still too cold at night to plant annuals. My rosebushes seem to be staving off black spot for now. I have some salvia that is starting to flower a bit so I’ll let the rain and the sun do their work. Hopefully next weekend will be good for planting.

It’s been a week since I’ve had the pleasure of daily life with Jean Claude and Roxie. They’ve spent time enjoying their other residence with their mom CCL. Roxie did go missing for a brief spell. She was located behind the washing machine, a favorite hiding place.

This evening I started putting out some of their toys in preparation for their return this week. Later I’ll put out their water bowl(filtered of course) and their dry food dishes. It’s interesting how easy life is when we prepare for the good – not just the bad stuff . Busy week this week, so I made mac and cheese with three cheeses…decided to leave bacon and tomatoes out. Also made Mexican pork chops – The recipe follows:

Mexican Pork Chops

Ingredients

Three or four Pork chops (m’ais oui)

One yellow onion

One small can of tomato paste

One cup of water

One can of whole kernel corn

One can of red beans (drained and washed)

Olives(the big kind)

One cup Rice ( I prefer brown rice)

Preparation

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Slice the onion into rounds and cut them in half

Season the chops with season salt and chilli pepper

Brown the onions and the chops in a pan or a skillet ( I prefer cast iron)

Remove the chops from the pan and set aside, leave the onions in the pan

Add to the pan or skillet the uncooked rice, water, tomato paste, corn(undrained), beans(drained) – Stir, season mixture to taste and then place the chops on top

Garnish with olives(LOTS) and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes

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So…where’s Roxie??

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Azeena

Well, the cats are at their other residence (their mom’s house) for at least a week. I went to visit them today. Jean Claude rushed to greet me and rubbed against me as I entered the house . Later he instructed me (with three simple pats to the blinds) to pull up the blinds to the front window of my daughter’s house. My daughter had a special cat seat built on the window and Jean Claude sat there for awhile. Roxie, who many of you know is always all over me when at her other residence (my house) was no where to be found. CCL told me later Roxie did make an appearance. I’ll go for a visit later this week.

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