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Now it’s the Water Bowl

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It’s not bad enough that Chris has to tip over his food bowls because he is too lazy to stand up and eat, now he started tipping over his water bowl.

The cats have three water bowls. The one that is used most often is a raised water bowl that is in the living room. There is also a bowl in the cat’s room and another bowl in our bedroom. Those are not raised bowls. Friday I noticed water in the living room next to the bowl. It was not tipped over but there was a significant amount of water on the floor. The next day Rose told me that Chris had tipped the water bowl over twice.

I decided to put the tall bowl in the cat’s room and put the regular bowl in the living room. I thought this might solve the problem. Not long after I did that, I saw Chris walk over to the water bowl, lie down, and start drinking while lying down.

A little while later I saw what he did with the raised bowl in the cat’s room.

The raised bowl is now out of service.

Frankie Up a Tree

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I am writing this post from a cruise ship. My wife and I started our vacation yesterday.

Before we drove to the cruise terminal yesterday, I took Frankie for a walk. During the walk Frankie took me to the far side of our community’s laundry room. He walked between a fence and a bush, where I couldn’t follow, so I let go of his leash and went around to collect him on the other side.

Just then he heard or saw something that scared him and he took off running, dragging his leash behind him. I ran after him. He stopped momentarily but heard me running. That must have scared him more so he ran up a palm tree.

He then had to figure out how to get down so he turned around and came down like a squirrel.

It’s always an adventure with Frankie.

Frankie’s Post Hurricane Idalia Walk

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We live in Pinellas County, Florida, which is west of Tampa. As far as I know, a hurricane has never made landfall in the county, but we had some close calls. This was not that close, but we did get tropical storm force winds. Our house is under a large oak tree and we found it hard to get to sleep last night because every couple of minutes we would hear something dropping on the roof.

I got up at 5:30 this morning, and it was still raining and very windy. Despite that, Frankie would still ask to go outside every fifteen minutes. Finally, I had to say to Frankie, “Are you crazy? Have you looked out the window.”

Just before 10 a.m. Frankie became relentless. I looked out the window and noticed the rain had stopped, and the wind had reduced to a nice breeze. I couldn’t resist any longer and had to take him outside.

Fortunately, there was no noticeable damage to or near our house, although I haven’t checked the roof yet. The only evidence a storm came through were numerous twigs and branches on the ground, and my rake was blown into the yard.

So my record in Florida is 35 years and no hurricanes. Let’s hope I can continue the streak.

Photo Friday: Spot Stealer

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The other day, Chris was on my lap when he decided to jump off and onto the nearby shelf. That shelf has been exclusively Floki’s domain . . . until now.

It wasn’t long before he was napping there.

I don’t know if Floki came around later and found Chris in his spot. If he did, I am probably lucky I missed it.