What's in a Name ?

Rich and I have been noticing that we are getting ALOT of strange hits on our blog and have been wondering why, we are getting hits from Chile', Sweden, Argentina, Italy, UK, Philippines and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. It kind of freaks me out, I have come to the conclusion it is due to the name of our blog "KATHOUSE". I thought we might need to change it as didn't like the thought of some creepy person sitting nude in their office chair in the middle of the night looking for gosh knows what and coming across "our" blog instead of "something" else. Now YES it may be something much less sinister as Rich and I have travelled all over the world but neither one of us knows too many folks in most of those places that would be looking at us. I tried to get him to change our blog name but he says no, I like it too but .
So now I am just telling myself it is just a fluke and we just have a very popular blog that folks want to look at, yeah that's it.

Kitty Scare

We had a real scare on Friday when Garfield (our 4 year old cat) started acting odd and looked to be in pain. He was bloated and far from being the happy go lucky cat we've come to love. He even growled and hissed at me, which he had never done, when I tried to check him over. I called Quailwood and Dr. Branch agreed to meet us at 8:45 PM. Before he arrived though, Dr. King opened the door at Quailwood and checked Garf over. Turns out he had a urinary blockage that we caught very early on. The doctors were able to clear up the problem but they said he'd have to stay at Quailwood for monitoring until Sunday evening. It was really hard because he'd never been away from home before.

It was really scary for us because Vic and I had just been talking about how lucky we have been over the years that none of our feline and canine family have not come up with any serious medical issues. Not 3 hours later, we noticed Garf's problem.

I'm happy to report that he is doing just great. He's on meds (about the size of horse pills) for a while to help with his problems, but he doesn't fight you when they are given, unlike most pets. It's only been a couple of days since he got home, but he seems to be bouncing right back to his former playful ways.

Please make sure that Garfie doesn't hear about this, but when we first met him at the Animal Shelter, we were told that he was a girl. Vickie decided to call "her" Sassy until her spaying became his neutering. Well, he may yet become Sassy again. Dr. Branch told me that this blockage issue could become an ongoing issue during his lifetime, but if we have to take him to the vet to deal with it too often, we should consider surgery....which will effectively make him a girl...again. Please, please don't let him know about this potential option as he may just decide that 9 lives are too much....if he has to be a girl!!

Wii-re Older and Wii-zer

As most of you know, I celebrated my 52nd birthday on the 9th, and it was really made special by some surprizes, not the least of which was a happy birthday song phone call from the Seaman clan, including the vocally versatile stylings of Amelia, Estella, Jed (I think), and maybe even Gretchen chimed in. Thank you.
My other family was wonderful too, presenting me with a German Chocolate Birthday Cake, with just enough candles that I could blow out without help. Vic got me a massage certificate, which she knows I love and clothes that I hate to have to buy myself. She also found me the belt I've been looking for (military style cloth belt) that makes getting dresses for a day off so much more comfortable.
Ryan put the most effort into his gift though....once again saving me from having to cut my own lawn by doing it while I was at work. He doesn't know how much I appreciate his efforts.
After we had cake and ice cream, I thought it would be a great time to set up Vickie's birthday present (a WiiFit System) that we had almost forgotten to set up.
Wii've set everything up and have tried a number of the game's routines but have a lot of work ahead of us if Wii really want to get into shape.