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Monthly Archives: September 2011

family portrait

30 Friday Sep 2011

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats, change, home

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cats, home, kittens

It’s now been a week since I first let Luna “roam free” with the boys and, health worries aside, it’s been a seamless transition. None of the hissy-spitty stuff on Azar’s part like when I first introduced him to Loki. And of course it was love at first sight for Loki.

Here’s a pic of them hanging out on the stairs last night … the first family portrait! Though I couldn’t get them to look at the camera.

Luna is so confident that it’s totally endearing to watch her. She’s even making some headway with charming Azar by coming to play on my bed in the morning, which of course is Azar’s Territory, but he doesn’t mind. And instead of just playing the String Game with Loki (which I still do) I get to watch the Chase Kitten Up & Down The Stairs game, which is pretty hilarious.

My happy family. Warms my heart.

cava cata

29 Thursday Sep 2011

Posted by azahar in food & drink, restaurants, sevilla, social media, tapas, wine, work

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cava, cava tasting, la azotea, sevilla, spain

So this is what I did last night!

What better way to further celebrate Tuesday’s good news than to go out to a free cava tasting the following evening. No question mark – rhetorical question. One of my all-time favourite tapas bars – La Azotea – has recently opened the new location of their fabulous Vinos & Más gourmet food and wine shop and last night was the first cata (wine tasting) featuring five fabulous Parxet cavas:  brut reserva, brut natura, gran reserva extra brut (my favourite), brut rosé and a dessert rosé. What I love about these catas at Vinos & Más is that they are casual and not at all snobby. I get to learn something new about wines and never feel silly about asking questions.

After the cata Nog & I were in need of a bit of something to eat and as La Azotea was jam-packed (as usual at that hour) we wandered over to a typical neighbourhood place called Dos de Mayo, which was also packed but their clientelle doesn’t linger as long. So we shared a few tapitas… always nice to mix business with pleasure, and especially when it ends up being mixing pleasure with pleasure…

luna rules!

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats, home

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cats, home, kittens

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Took these pics yesterday while Luna was prettily lounging on the cat bed, which you may recall was adopted by Loki when he came to live at casa az (previously used once by Azar and later taken over by Sunny). For the moment it’s being shared by Luna and Loki, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ended up taking sole ownership. She may be tiny but Luna definitely rules! At least when it comes to Loki. She doesn’t seem to know what to make of Azar, who is immune to her charms, so she still hisses a bit if she suddenly finds him “too close”. But she pretty much has Loki wrapped around her little paw.

Although Luna has filled out quite a bit since she first arrived, you can see here (during Battle For Rug Domination last night) that she is still eensy compared to Loki. At first I worried that he might play too rough with her, like he does with Azar, and end up hurting her. But so far what I’ve seen is Loki barrel over top of Luna and knock her down, then look totally surprised as she spins around on her back like a tiny ninja, flashing needle claws in every direction, which sends him running. Ha – he’s not used to dealing with cats that have four working paws. Serves him right.

So I am very pleased at how well the new addition has fit into the household. Still keeping fingers crossed that she isn’t a FeLV carrier and that the slight trace found in the test Yolanda did turns out to be antibodies from previous exposure or a false positive, which is common when testing kittens. Meanwhile, Luna is just what Loki needed – a little playmate who is as energetic as he is. From the minute they get up in the morning it’s non-stop kitteh fun around here. They tear around the apartment chasing each other, are constantly up and down the stairs, and wreak havoc on my rug and curtains. And I love it.

biopsy results negative!

27 Tuesday Sep 2011

Posted by azahar in cancer, health & happiness, hospitals

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biopsy, cancer, happy, health, hospitals

It was four weeks ago today that I had the emergency op – the one  that turned out to be an abscess on one of my ovaries and not anything related to my colon as the head surgeon had previously thought. I was told at the time that they didn’t think there was any cancer, but as a precaution they’d taken biopsy samples and said the results would be ready in two weeks. So two weeks ago I sent a text message to Isabel and Ricardo (of my nuclear medicine Team) to ask if they could check the results and when I didn’t hear back I reckoned that no news was good news.

But in fact good news is good news.

This evening I was over at Agustín’s getting him to witness my passport application and a message came through from Isabel that simply said “no describe nada de tumor” … my biopsy results in a nutshell! Right after that I had to go and take photos for my friend/client Maria at her shop and I forgot to call Isabel back, so she called me about an hour later and went over the results in a bit more detail. But the bottom line is that I’m okay! And although I was pretty sure someone would have called me before now if they’d found cancer, it was still a huge relief to see those words and talk to Isabel.

So I called Nog on my way home and he met me for a Cold Beer and some toasted almonds to celebrate.  A good day. 🙂

protected

26 Monday Sep 2011

Posted by azahar in animals & pets, cats, change, home

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cats, home, kittens, protection

On Saturday morning, after having decided the previous evening that it was time to let Luna roam free, I realised it was also clearly time to put up some kitteh protection.

When I first moved here in February I decided that minimal protection was fine for the boys as the railings have a curly metal design along the bottom that would prevent any accidental slipping off the balconies, even if either of them could squeeze through the bars, which seemed doubtful. This was a far cry from the massive protection that I put up at the old casa az when I first got Loki, who was a crazy climber back then, and I had constant visions of him going “over the top” in a split second. Luna is a much calmer kitten but she is so eensy that, as you can see in the photo, could easily tumble through the railing if she leaned over too far. So it was off to the hardware store for some mesh.

This time I’ve only put it up half-way because I don’t think Luna would actually try to jump through – this is just to protect accidental falling and also put my mind at ease. And so now all the kittehs can enjoy fresh air out on the balconies and I don’t have to keep the doors closed in this lovely autumnal weather.

Haven’t let Luna out on the terraza yet – one step at a time…

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