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Flying Cats

I totally meant to have this in my last entry.  But we have discovered that our cat, Drew, can fly.  It is an interesting thing to learn about one’s cats.

But I do need to give some background on our evil cats.  =)

Sakura has a major thing for tearing up paper.  She will just sit there for hours and just methodically bite and tear into paper. I have to worry about receipts on my desk and magazines in the living room. Those aren’t too bad, until they fall on the floor….then she will go for it.  A very destructive cat when it comes to paper.  You should see what she does with cardboard left in the garage….lol

Drew Brees enjoys tearing paper, but no were like his sister…..he has a thing for wire bread ties, tooth picks and tearing off my wicker from my laundry basket.  Oh yeah, and q-tips…so we had to get a trash can in the bathroom with a lid on it to stop that one….lol We have no idea how he gets the toothpicks…..we brought a new holder that you have to shake it to get them. We think he has a stash somewhere, because we will find him with them all over the house.


Well, both of them love to mess with plants…both tearing into the plant and digging into the dirt, which sucks.  Because we love our green house plants, especially my hubby who loves to take care of them.  Our other 4 cats were never this bad at all.  We were able to have our plants without an issue.  These two….well, we grew some grass for them and they just tore into big time.  Drew pulled it out of its container.

So hubby keeps trying to find places for our plants to stay safe.  We lost 2 of our plants that came with us from Florida and they chewed on our bamboo.  =(  Well, we thinking what is the safest place to put our plants…..how about hanging from the ceiling?

Wellllll…..that worked for maybe 2 weeks.  We heard something while in the office, sounded like it was from the bathroom…looked, no one there.  Sakura and Alexis were sleeping and since we didn’t see Drew, we thought something just fell.  I go downstairs a few hours later, look at the cat’s food area and find a portion of our hanging plant in the water dish.  I called hubby down…..wow, we were both so upset but also trying hard not to laugh….because somehow Drew was able to jump on the hanging plant without knowing anything down and stay on long enough to also dig into the dirty….we have no idea how he did it.  Hubby has this image in his head of Drew’s butt just hanging and swinging from our plant and we are both upset that we didn’t see it happen, because that would be funny site….lol  We have concluded that Drew has learned how to fly to get up there…..grin

We have never had such cats that are so ornery, destructive, playful, and just don’t care when we try to correct them. They look at us as to say “what?” and causally walk away like nothing…..it is both amusing and infuriating….lol  We have some crazy cats….yet they are so laid back.  Even when they are totally fluffed up, we can pick them up and calm them down.  If that was Reggie, he would have our skin cut up.  Drew & Sakura definitely keep things interesting, that is for sure.

Alexis is doing ok.  She has lost a big part of her hearing, so when she meows (which is she is doing more and more of) it is has if she is yelling at us.  I’m also wondering about her sight in the dark, because she meows a lot more at night…something she never use to do before she got sick over a year ago.  Yet, her eyes aren’t cloudy at all.  But I have read that cats can go senile, so I’m really thinking that she is losing it with her old age.  She is going to be 16 this fall, went through an almost deadly urinary tract infection in Dec ’08, then the hyperthroid that same month and then a few months later had 7 teeth removed.  Until that all happened, she meowed, but no way as bad until she ended going through all that pain. So I don’t know what she is yelling at for…lol

She has finally out on some weight last she lost from the hyperthroid, still much smaller then she was before it.

Message to Hubby?

Garfield

Maybe this is something I need to tell hubby about……..grin

Site Seeing With Jessica June

My friend from my Fannie May days came out for a visit and to see Purdue play at Oregon University in Eugene.

These pics are from the day that we took her site seeing to some our local sites :

http://paulineantoinette.com/PNH/nature/2009_0911_Oregon/index.html

This link has been posted on my Landscapes & Nature Page of my blog.

Mt Hood Hike

Watching the Purdue/Norte Dame game and it is totally stressing me out.  We are always getting hit with penalties……gggrrr  I love my Purdue football, but they stress me out big time……

As you saw from my tweets, we went for a hike Wed.  Two different maps list it hike we took from 9.3 mile – 9.7 mile…..according to my pedometer we did 12miles….which is what it felt like.  It ended up taking us 8hrs & 10min….our 12mile hike last year took us 8hr & 20min.   So I was totally not happy with our time considering it was 2+miles shorter.

But as we look back on it, we didn’t take into the fact that we were starting at 4400ft so the air was thinner. Our total elevation increase was only 1400ft, compared to the 2900ft last time….but unlike last time, this wasn’t just straight up and straight down.  We went up and up…..but then went back down a couple hundred feet so we can cross a muddy glacier river and then back up and up….lol  So looking back, that did slow us down.

The most frustrating part hike was the when the trail went through the ski slopes.  The trail was barely wide enough for single file and it was so deep, like it was cut out that you keep tripping on it and had to keep yourself from falling on your face.  That really slowed us down.

So that was the logistics of the hike.  =)

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Taken from the parking lot of a different trail head.  We were looking for ours.

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But it really was a beautiful hike, it felt like more adventure then a hike.  We hiked through the forest, on the side of ravines, down “gravel” pit (for lack of a better word), had to cross the 1st glacier river we ever crossed and lost count of how many streams and falls we had to figure out how to cross.

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Words and pictures doesn’t do this justice.  This ravine was stunning.

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Hiking on down, so we can get to the slope on the other side.

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You can barely see the trail we took down the side of the slope to get the glacier river.

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The muddy glacier river we had to wade in.  Luckily hubby thought ahead and we brought our beach shoes that we got in FL.  That came in handy, the water was very, very cold and went just below my knees.  This pic is about 10ft about the river.

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One of the many mountain waterfalls.

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The ski lift looks so high, but imagine about 15-20ft of snow underneath those chairs come winter.

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I didn’t think my camera got this!  This is from one of the ski slopes we crossed.

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Umbrella Falls, about 2-3 miles before the end of the trail.

I will say, no more 10+mile hikes.  We are thinking of more like 5-8miles.  Because by the end our feet/toes and other parts are hurting from the extreme up and downs.  Of course, it doesn’t help that we were carrying over 20# pack wise.  90% of the stuff we had in our packs we didn’t need, it was all emergency stuff…like extra clothes and food, in case we were stuck on the mountain over night and first aid stuff.  But it is much better to be safe then sorry. =)

We did skip the gym the day after the hike, but only that day.  We did end up going Friday and even with our aches and pains, we did really well, surprisingly.  So we are pretty proud of that.  Last year we couldn’t move for like 3 days….lol  We still have some aches, 2 of my toes are feeling weird, but not too bad otherwise.

I spent Thursday trying to catch up on my work from Wednesday, but mentally it was a bitch…..lol  My brain had a hard time focusing.  But I got it pretty much caught up on Friday with a few lose ends to do, nothing unusual.

Today, I have just been doing a combination of personal and work projects, more personal…..like catching up on a bunch of mags that have piled up on me.  So I’m pretty content that way.  Now if Purdue would win this game, it would be a perfect day……gggggrrr

The Coastal RedWoods

Well, it has taken me a couple of months of getting to it, but I finally got the pictures up from our trip…..better late then never.   =)

They are located on this page of my blog : http://www.paulineantoinette.com/our-travels/

They are sorted by the different types of cameras and in sections so the galleries aren’t so overwhelming.

From the Nikon D70

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_0525_Redwood_NP/part1/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_0525_Redwood_NP/part2/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_0525_Redwood_NP/part3/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_0525_Redwood_NP/part4/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_0525_Redwood_NP/part5/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_0525_Redwood_NP/part6/index.htm

From the Olympus Stylus 740

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_May_Redwoods/part1/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_May_Redwoods/part2/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_May_Redwoods/part3/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_May_Redwoods/part4/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_May_Redwoods/part5/index.htm

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_May_Redwoods/part6/index.htm

From my iPhone

http://www.paulineantoinette.com/PNH/travel/2009_redwoods_iphone/index.htm

I hope that you enjoy!