A lap is a lap, no matter where it is...

As I'm already getting into the Halloween spirit, no pun intended, I thought I'd post this from last year. While putting the tons of Halloween decorations in the attic, we would put certain things in the bathroom to keep the kitties away from them, in case they were feeling destructive. I was certain this pirate would be a prime target, becasue he had tattered and ripped clothing, so into the bathroom it went. Imagine the fear I had for my pirate-friend when I realized hubby had left the door open at some point. I looked in, not to find the terrible carnage I expected, but to see this. My sweet Baxter, who can somehow sit on your lap before your butt is even on the couch, had curled up on the pirate's "lap". Of course, Crazy Cat Lady couldn't pass up this excellent photo op. Isn't he precious?

Big day...

Yesterday was an eventful day for us. The insurance rep came to inspect our roof to see if we had hail damage from a storm in June, and sure enough, we need a new roof on the house and garage. I'm not upset by this actually, because we were wanting to update to a metal roof, and now our insurance company gets to pay for most of it! Yea us!

Also, Baxter had to go to the vet with a nasty illness. I'll save you the details, but he now gets medicine twice a day and already seems to be doing better.

How cute is this face?!?!?!

Camo kitties...

This is Jiggs (top), Baxter (bottom left), and Nigel (bottom right). Can you tell we purchased our bedding to match the cats?

Just call me Nurse Lisa...

Last Thursday, I went home on my lunch hour to find that one of my mean boy kitties (probably Nigel) had bitten my sweet little girl, Sophie. I took her to the vet who said they could do surgery on the would to clean it up or we could try to let it heal on it's own, but it could abscess. I opted for the expensive ($192) surgery, wanting to be a good kitty mommy and save her the pain of an abscess. We then had to irrigate the wound twice a day with an antibiotic solution, give her Clavamox twice a day, and keep her separated from the boys. On Tuesday, the drain came out, and by the very next day (yesterday), it had started to get infected. I took her to the vet--again--this morning, and she's there getting it drained. Oh yeah, AND we thought Baxter may have broken a leg at 3:30 yesterday morning when he got somehow hung up on the footboard while jumping off the bed. We took him to the emergency vet, expecting an even bigger bill (I was told it's $75 for the visit and $90 for each X-ray), but he was miraculously healed in the car ride there. An even bigger miracle was that the vet didn't charge us anything! I think he probably took pity on the crazy cat lady with her four cats, one of which just had surgery. Oh the trials and tribulations of being CCL.