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keeping hydrated

16 Wednesday May 2012

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Here is the love of my life (aka Azar) having a nice long drink in the middle of a very hot afternoon … it always tugs at my heart when he asks to have a drink and then takes his time, with his tail doing that lazy contented flicking back and forth, bless him. Yeah, he could always drink out of the communal water bowl, which is changed several times a day in these temps to keep it fresh, but he prefers to drink out of his own glass and with someone paying total attention to him. Spoiled? Well, I do my best.

Meanwhile I am drinking at least three litres of water a day and have taken to putting bottles in the fridge so they’re nice and cold. I remember with a shudder when I was on chemo – both times during the summer – and couldn’t drink, or even touch, anything cold. I had to sip on room temperature (hot!) water, which wasn’t thirst-quenching at all. Strange after all this time that I still think of that every single time I pour myself a glass of nice cold water…

How much water are you drinking these days?

sunbeam boy

01 Tuesday May 2012

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Those two young whippersnappers Loki & Luna have been getting all territorial about the morning sunbeam space in my room and have taken to bullying Azar off the bed. The solution has been to open the living room curtains especially for my darling boy and give him his own personal sunbeam. Win-win! I get to hang out with Azar while I get my work done and he ends up getting extra snibbles.  🙂

the catnip connection

15 Sunday Apr 2012

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One of the many things I love about doing the Sevilla Tapas Tours is that little “click” that sometimes happens when you meet people. And although I just met Katrina and her family in person today that “click” actually happened a few days ago when she sent me an email saying she was counting the days until her trip to Sevilla and sent me a photo of her four cats chowing down – she had found her way over to casa az and it turns out her family knew all about my cat family! And she even brought them prezzies! A whole whack of catnip toys.  🙂

And as I have promised Bianca pics of my cats playing with their new toys, here they are. Sorry that Azar is missing, but at his age he can be excused (for just about anything). Anyhow, in the middle photo you can see – typically! – that Luna and Loki are far more interested in the packaging than the toys themselves. But later they played around with them on my chair and after that on my bed, and I am sure that hours and hours of fun lie ahead for them.

Thank you Katrina, Val and Bianca for such a great gift, and also for a lovely afternoon.