10/25/2021 – MultiCat Monday and Stuff

Just another Monday morning around here. Tessa’s telling Quint off, Quint’s deciding he wants nothing to do with Tessa’s attitude, and Olivia’s taking it all in to report about it all later to Mom. Yep, all is well.

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Lately, we’ve been asked how we’re doing and since Mom is finally over the coughing cold/flu thing Dad brought home from getting his Covid booster, she says we’re as good as can be expected. Dad’s still looking for a job that pays more than just over minimum wage. He had a couple of interviews recently for jobs he was excited about but as has become usual, was told he was their number two pick and he didn’t get either job.

Mom’s hanging in there at her manual labor job and survived a scary change in management a few months ago. She has a small raise coming up next February/March that just might offset the rise in this year’s medical benefits cost. The really good thing is she finally has a company-matching 401K going and even though she is very, very, very late to that game, she knows some money later is much better than no money later.

Quint, Olivia, and Viola are all eating wet food diets exclusively now. We thought Tessa would jump on board, too, but she stopped eating after two days, the same as Pia did when we tried switching her over from dry to wet a couple of months ago. It’s just not their time yet, which is okay. We can’t yet afford five cats on wet food alone anyway.

Quint is not painting, so, no, he’s no longer in the painting business. Between Mom’s long work hours and changing Covid restrictions and our closest post office closing its doors, that sweet boy had to hang up his talent. We offer our deepest apologies to anyone holding out hope that we might start up again. We just don’t see it happening anytime soon.

Thank you, angels, who have sent us things off our Amazon wish list and elsewhere – tea, enchilada sauce, Quint’s (and Olivia and Viola) wet food, and some cat toys! You thinking of us warms our hearts and we very much appreciate your thoughts and kind words. You’ve helped to keep us going for this long and again, we thank you.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2020 – No post
2019 – Bath Time
2018 – A Cat’s World View
2017 – Watchful Wednesday and an Update
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014 – No post
2013 – Miss Newton’s Basket 2
2012 – No post