Feeding Cats in Bed, or Elsewhere

Haiku has become a very picky eater, in some respects, and weight loss is an issue, so sometimes I find myself feeding her in unusual places.  She likes to eat away from Taki, so I might feed her on the dining table.  Sometimes, if we are in the computer room, she likes to be fed on her chair in that room.  Sometimes, she is on the top tier of the cat tree, and likes to be fed there.  She might also like to be fed on the sofa, if that is where we are sitting.

I really do not want to cater to her whims, but I do, because she is so insistent, and does not otherwise go to the kitchen to eat.  I can even carry her to the kitchen, and she may not eat, but if I carry her food to her, she eats.

The problem with this is I have to bring food to Taki, too.  Not such a big problem, but sometimes, I have to remember where I last had their dishes.  

Again, a Light

This morning, when I started the car to go to work, the tire pressure indicator light was on.  I drove for about a mile and a quarter, and the light went off.  I had decided not to go back to have the tires checked again, since they were okay, if over inflated, yesterday, and they did not look any different today.

Dashboard indicator lights are wonderful, only if they work correctly.

Topsy Turvey Dishes

So, the regular reader will have read about Haiku meeting me at the door from the house to the garage, crying insistently tonight.  I thought it was due to being alerted that I was home, and then I did not go into the house because I left right away.

I am not sure that is the case.  When I got into the house, Haiku's food dishes, which were on the dining table when I left for work this morning, were on the floor.  Dry food was spread out and the liver was covered by the dish, without much eaten.

Haiku was crying and crying, and I quickly realized she was very hungry.  She ate two helpings of liver, plus some dry food.  Sometimes when she eats a lot, she vomits, but so far tonight, I have not discovered any.

Finally, her tummy full, she settled down, and stopped crying.  I feel badly that she did not get to eat more of her breakfast, but there is nothing I can do, except put the food on the floor.  Sometimes, she will eat the food on the floor, but Taki often intimidates her or nudges her away from her food, so then, she does not get it any way. This morning, she wanted to eat on the table.  

I will have to be sure to just put the food on the floor. 

Tire Pressure Indicator Light

I did not notice it until I arrived home, and drove into the garage, but the tire pressure indicator light was on.  Rather than risk a low tired in the morning, I backed out, checked all the tires for a serious flat, but there was none.  So, I drove the Vue to the Discount Tires Store  and took advantage of their free air offer. 

The technician who checked my tires said none were low, but a couple were too high in pressure. He did not think that would normally set the indicator light off, but after he checked the tires, we checked the indicator light, and it was not activated.  So, he did what needed to be done.  He also confirmed that the tread on the tires was good.  Which is reassuring to hear.

I can check the tires myself, and do sometimes, but I do appreciate the Discount Tires Store free air check service. Since I purchase tires there, I take advantage of the service. 

Snookered by the Garage Door

When I arrive home from work, the cats know because they hear the garage door open.  They often are sitting at the garage door leading to the house, waiting for me, when I arrive home. I imagine they did that tonight.  But, when I drove into the garage, I noticed the tire pressure indicator light was on.  I wished I had seen it before I got all the way home, but not so.  

I backed out and closed the garage door, and drove the mile and a half or so to the  Discount Tires Store where I trade.  When I arrived back home, I could hear Haiku mewing loudly at the garage door. She was not happy with me, and I assumed it was because of the false alarm of having opened and closed the garage door once, before I stayed home.  

She was waiting at the door to the house.  Crying loudly. Hmmm.

Missing Games

I have been missing Texas Tech men's basketball games, and Lady Raider games.  Sometimes it is because I have something else to do, sometimes it is because I cannot find the radio broadcast of the game, and lo and behold, today, it was because I mis-read the schedule.  But that is okay.  The men won, and the women were routed.  I would have been miserable at the woman's game, anyway.

The men are having a very successful season, the women, a horrible season.  So be it.

"The Darkest Hour" the Movie

I went to see this movie today.  I knew it was about Winston Churchill during World War II, but not much else. I suspected it was about the early war days, because those are the days Churchill referred to as "our darkest hour."  And, that is just what it was.  It was about the change of the prime minister from Neville Chamberlain to Winston Churchill, and his decision not to negotiate for peace but to fight for England.

I don't know why, but this movie moved me to tears.  It was a good story.