We had a small amount of snow here yesterday. It was bitter cold, but I only had to go out once to pick up Andy’s medicine refill and some kitty treats.
The little bugger managed to avoid his medicine last night, so, of course, he wasn’t a good boy. Because he wasn’t a good boy, he didn’t get any kitty treats yesterday! (Don’t feel sorry for him. He was a bad boy, after all.)
Andy’s “medicine face”….
Snow?!!
Not much of it, but there are still spots of it that haven’t melted yet.
Temperature has dropped here at last too lol ;(
All in all, it’s been warmish for November, so I can’t complain too much….! (Yeah, sure!)
Same here. Very odd actually!
I’m sure I can still look forward to some miserable weather, though! I’m glad my car has remote start so I can warm it up before I actually have to go out into the cold. It’s my favorite feature on that car.
Lucky! We haven’t got a car because it’s so expensive to maintain in the UK. Sucks in the drizzly time of the year lol
They are oujtrageously expensive to maintai8n here, too, though gasoline prices are very low compared with your pump prices. Where I live, there is limited public transportation, and a private car is almost something you can’t do without. Fortunate for me, I don’;t drive that many miles a year, so my expenses are low in that regard, but insurance (required, of course) is high, and gets higher as one gets older and (presumably) less competent to drive.
It’s insurance costs and road tax that really drive costs up here. We’ve been able to live without for a long time but most of our friends moved out of London into the country side Which makes public transport extremely difficult to use to see them…
Our road taxes come in the form of taxes on gasoline and as part of the cost of registering a car each year. Each state has its own system. Some states (Florida) don’t have property taxes. My state, on the other hand, taxes cars based on appraised value. Each year, your tax goes down, consequently, till a 10 year old costs virtually nothing to register. Plus you pay a fee each year for the license plate and a sticker telling what month and year the car was registered. Since plates are in use for five years where I live before they are replaced with a new design, in years old plates are used, you pay your fee and get the little sticker telling month and year your registered the car to put on the plate to update it. Each county collects taxes for different things, so someone living in my town and driving an identical car to someone living in the next county over pays a different amount for the same services. I, of course, live in the country and town (yes, the town collects it’s pound of flesh, too!) that is something like second highest in the state. Someone who lives just outside the city limits has a lower tax liability. I think the Mafia couldn’t have come up with a more efficient way of fleecing people. LOL!
Jesus! That’s a highly complicated and confusing system oO. That makes ours appear simple… Road tax (based on emission of the car and age. The more emissions the more expensive but when once a car is over a certain age you don’t pay any which makes no sense LOL), car insurance and a yearly car “health check”
Some states still require an annual verification that emissions controls meet standard and safety items such as headlights are in order, but my state dropped its program several years ago. Probably cost more to do that it was worth to state coffers of people complained because it was inconvenient or something. Regardless, because there is little consistency from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, a person moving from one place to another needs to make sure they find out what’s required of them if they want to avoid problems with the law.
Some states require licence plates front and rear on cars; others, just the rear. A friend moved from Nebraska (two plates) to a one plate state, and forgot to remove the front plate. For awhile, they were driving a car (illegally!) with plates from two states on it!
Wow. Ok that beats our confusing system hands down. I never knew about the front / rear signs bit!
It’s crazy!
Now that is quite a face and Ali says she knows exactly how he feels.
For sure!
Dam auto correct
Harsh
Who among us hasn’t been the victim of an inappropriate auto-correction?!
When I miss my meds
It’s more psychological than physical
But no treats
That’s based
It’s tough love, Sheldon, and Andy needs the medicine to control high blood pressure, which is a threat to his kidneys, a classic kitty issue..
That is a cute picture of Andy, although I am guessing he does not like the paparazzi while he is getting meds.
He’s too focused on the medicine to notice. LOL!
Looks like my medicine face too!
– sonmi not taking the pills man upon the Cloud
…and mine! Fortunately, it’s in liquid form, so it is easier to give him than a pill.
Love Andy’s medicine face…haha
Jean
Poor kitty! He’s very brave until the liquid hits the lips. I think the fact it is cold may be part of the problem, too, but it have to be stored in the refrigerator.
Bring the liquid out earlier if you can and put it into the syringe for liquids. Warm it between your hands or does it have to be given cold? I know its hard to be organized first thing in the morning….its a sometimes thing here.
In the meantime, I have an unhappy cat in my hands….! It’s a possibility to let it warm a bit, but the bottle it comes in needs to be back in the refrigerator before it spoils.
We have nearly 0 ° C tomorrow – but they say it won’t last long … only a few days.
One can hope not, eh?! We had that the other day, and I’m not ready.
Neither am I, it seems, I am on my way back to bed – a little hot, snotty and coughing, AGAIN … Phoned in sick, today.
Sorry to read that! I hope you are feeling much better today. Maybe the story of Benji the pup will cheer you up and make you feel better! Anarette’s photography – especially that first photo – show a delightful little guy.
Oh, I went “to work” – a work related language course – yesterday, a Sunday. And today I have taken the day off – thankfully German law is rather lenient about phoning in. Have slept the morning through and now I am indeed feeling slightly better – famous last words of Queen Victoria 😉
Nice to know you feel better, though I trust better than the late queen….!
Well, I am a day or two younger than she was on her death bed 😉
LOL!
Snow!!!! Where do you live dear Weggieboy? But should be normal. In here it is still like a summer day and it is not normal. Usually in these days it should get colder and snow could be seen too. Strange. Andy’s medicine face is amazing 🙂 Thank you, Blessing and Happiness, love, nia
Western Nebraska. Denver got a blizzard out of it, so I feel better about the little we got. (Andy is a brave little guy, but he isn’t a fan of medicine.)
I feel bad for Andy even if he was naughty. If you got his medicine compounded to a flavor he likes, do you think he would take it? I tried that once with Benadryl, but it didn’t help. The site of the syringe made her drool no matter what was in it.
I hold him on his back to help get the medicine to flow down this throat. I have to be careful, though, because sometimes he opens his mouth enough that it shoots out the opposite side! He’s a clever rascal, but I learn each time new things to do or not do!
Snow! Wow! I’m looking forward to Monday, when temps during the day will supposedly get into the 70’s with
60’s at night.
Supposed to be in the 40s here, which beat yesterday, when it was 18 when I went out!
SHIVER!!!! I haven’t seen that temperature in years!
Too common here, I fear!
You don’t have Alaskan temps, do you? I actually loved living up there, even if it was only for a couple years.
It can get pretty cold, especially in February.
Worse than 50 below?
The record is 40 below. Low teens below are common enough in the coldest parts of winter, though.
Goodness, you don’t live anywhere near Florida, do you!?!
I think it’s close to 1500 miles away from here to Pensacola..
Pensacola is quite a ways from us, too – we’re closer to Cape Canaveral.
I chose that city because it is about the closest place in Florida to me.