The cat's pajamas

Pumpkin had a big day at the vet this week. He badly needed his teeth cleaned, and he had a cyst on his side that was probably harmless but getting bigger. So while he was zonked out after his dental work, the vet removed the cyst and left five stitches behind.

When I picked him up that evening, they told me that he had managed to chew or scratch out his first set of stitches and had to be resutured. He would need to wear a cone or a shirt, preferably both. When we got home the cone seemed to be making him panic, so I quickly made a shirt for him out of an old green t-shirt of mine. As soon as he was feeling better, he just as quickly squirmed out of it.

Shirt number two turned out a lot better! I made the neck narrower so it would be harder for him to get his arms through the neck. And it looks much better on him. I also reinforced the armholes since his escape strategy is to lick and bite the armholes until they are stretched enough that he can somehow get his arms out and slither out of the whole thing.

With all of the weight he has lost, the shirt makes him look very svelte!


Poor little guy -- the vet also found that he has bone spurs on his elbows. That means that he has arthritis. It doesn't seem to be slowing him down at all!

Zellie likes Rob.

Rob is a cat person. Giselle, apparently, is a Rob cat. She took to him right away and sometimes chooses his lap over mine. I try not to be jealous when this happens, and eventually Pumpkin will wander by and get on my lap to avoid a fight with Zellie.

One-Track Kitty Brain

Pumpkin is such a persistent little beast. He's quite smart too. After I caught him trying to break into the food bin, I put it in a low cupboard in the kitchen where I keep the canned cat food. Later that day I found him inside the cupboard sitting on top of the food bin. There wasn't enough room inside for him to maneuver, but at least he was close to what he loves more than anything else ... food.

A Storm at Sea

Remember this?



Now it looks like this!


I really wanted to get this quilt top pieced before I move, since I had all of the pieces layed out just the way I wanted them. Now it's pieced and it's time to decide on a border fabric, and what batting to use, and whether to quilt it by hand myself, by machine myself, or pay someone to long-arm quilt it. Decisions, decisions...

I'm very pleased with how it turned out, as long as I don't look at it too closely and see my mistakes. But I've always loved this "Storm at Sea" pattern. Every time I look at it, I see something different.

Spring Beetle Bling

Happy Spring everyone...


I know I haven't posted in a while. Wedding planning is taking up my blogging time! Not that I'm spending that much time on wedding planning, but I never spent that much time blogging either. More pictures to come soon!