Saturday-11:15am

Karma saying her prayers.

 Actually she was watching a nature show with me and fell asleep--LOL!

 The maintenance man came yesterday.  The microwave is shot.  They have to order a new one and he thought he'd be here on Tuesday to install it.  It's one of the hanging above the stove variety--so he needs to move the stove and get into the cupboard above the microwave.  I'll clear off the stove & counters and empty that cupboard Monday night.

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Miss Karma's morning treat was cold this morning.  I know.  I know.  Talk about spoiled.  But I take her heaping tablespoon of canned food and her pumpkin from the fridge and take the chill off of it in seven seconds in the microwave every morning.  Didn't matter.  She took longer to get started and ate slower, but she still ate it, of course.  ;)

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Come to think of it, I don't think I ever told you about the canned pumpkin! 

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Dagan and Leah's cat, Sammy, has always had a terribly touchy stomach and barfs easily...all over the place.  They had tried all kinds of foods.  Leah finally asked at the Natural Foods Pet Shop if there was anything they would recommend and the lady there said to try some canned pumpkin.  She said that is one of the foods they often add to some of the healthy cat foods because it soothes the stomach.  Pumpkin?  Who knew?

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So they decided to try it on Sammy.  They put some in with his dry food (he does worse on canned) and he ate it!  In fact, he'll eat up the pumpkin before he even eats the dry food!!  And Annie will eat it, too, if Sammy leaves her any.  Shock!  Leah suggested I try it with Karma just because it's healthy.  

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I knew Karma'd never eat dry food with it on because she won't touch her dry food at all if it's wet--even if I put salmon oil for cats or the juice from a can of tuna on it--she'll walk away.  But!  Every day when I get up she gets her big tablespoon of canned cat food for her "treat"...which I just confessed I warm up in the microwave when it comes out of the frig.  (Even a small Fancy Feast can lasts her about 5 days.)  So I could try and mix the pumpkin in with her wet canned food...

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Well, I really didn't expect her to eat it, to be honest.  She's awfully fussy about her canned foods...well, her dry foods, too, for that matter.  The canned foods that have small pieces/chunks...she may or may not eat them.  Some days she does and other days she licks all the juice off of the pieces.  She prefers fish, especially salmon.  But I bought some of that salmon oil for cats thinking she'd love it right?  She won't touch anything I squirt it on.  Not even the canned salmon cat food.  Duh!??

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Anyways, I buy a can of pumpkin.  It sat around here for a while.  Finally I decided to give it a go one morning.  Stirred a tiny bit of the pumpkin in with her morning treat...and she gobbled it down!?  Color me shocked!  She has been getting pumpkin with her canned food ever since.  Been over two months now.  And if I mix it with a can of cat food she isn't fond of, she'll lick up every bit of the pumpkin and leave the cat food.  I even tried giving her nothing but pumpkin one day and she gobbled it right up.  Who knew!

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So, that's the story of the canned pumpkin.  If you have a cat with barfing issues, give it a go.  I suppose the same goes for a dog, too.  Karma didn't have the upchucking problem, but this has got to be healthier for her.  :)

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Oh!  Oh!  And--back to the maintenance man!!  He asked about the dryer flap.  Had looked even up on the roof and couldn't find one, he said.  I explained to him that it was on the side of the building between second and third floor.  You can see it from the parking lot.  He told me that was an air vent for the building...well, whatever.  (Wonder where my dryer air is vented to if not there--LOL!)  He's a really sweet, kind man.  I don't mean to make fun of him.  Anyways, I explained the situation and he said he was going to try to remove that cover and install a screen to keep the swallows out (what I suggested now and several years ago).  I was so thrilled I must have thanked him half a dozen times and gave him a hug!!

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And--guess what!??  I heard him out on the side of the building later in the day.  And I heard a screw gun!!  So--maybe he did it?  Maybe he replaced that flap with a screen!!  I assume he did.  Time will tell, eh?  But I think the seven years of the pounding dryer flap (or air vent) are over with--TaDa!!!!!

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BTW--I am still losing comments.  Not on the blog.  They appear to be posting after I approve them, but then they're supposed to come to me in an email after I post them and I don't get a lot of them.  And the ones I do get often come twice so that I get double emails.  ??  I don't know if this will ever be fixed because this has been going on ever since I switched to the new format.  So, I just wanted you all to know that if you comment and you don't get a response back from me, it is most likely I never got a copy via email that I could respond to privately as I have been doing now.  But I have read each and every one.  It's not me.  It's Blogger!  Just wanted you to know that.  I appreciate every comment and am annoyed that this is still happening.  I've had some new people comment recently--I post them and go to check my email--and nothing is there!  Grrr!  Just so you know, okay?  :(

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I made an art supply order from Dick Blick, too, for this month.  Groceries are coming tonight.  Several moths are flapping in the porch.  Leftovers aren't as appealing reheated in a pan.  Especially if they have pasta in them and get all mushy.  Brought me back to the days before microwaves--LOL!  Supposed to hit the low 80s the next few days...and it feels like it already.  And here is what several pictures looked like before I distracted Karma so I could get the eye shot--ROFL!  

Have a super duper weekend!!  :):)

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"Your success and happiness lie in you....Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

Helen Keller