ewwwww

So our new little girl-cat Squirrel was sitting next to me on the sofa and suddenly, with no preliminary heaving, she threw up. In the midst of the detritus was what looked like a four-inch long piece of spaghetti. We haven't had spaghetti for a week. WTF? I picked it up to inspect it more closely and it coiled itself up between my fingertips. Eeeeeeewwww! Roundworms. We've got roundworms. Or rather, the cats have roundworms. If one cat has worms, likely all the cats have worms because roundworms are wildly contagious. So we stopped at the vet, picked up worming medicine for five cats, dosed the troops, cleaned and scoured and bleached all the litterboxes, throwing out the old litter altogether and replacing it with fresh new stuff, and now DH has decided to get a self-flushing litterbox that sanitizes and cleans itself. Hey - boys like toys. We have had three different self-cleaning litterboxes which have failed miserably, but hope springs eternal, and this one has bells and whistles! If this one works, hooray! If it doesn't, no biggie. Other guys buy tools they never use or a new car every other year, or a closet full of Armani suits (or drugs and alcohol, or they blow it all gambling.) If he wants to spend his hard-earned money on self-cleaning litterboxes, I'm tickled to endorse it.

Work is very quiet, but when midterms hit, things should change markedly. It's good time for mindless knitting.

Yesterday was a lovely October day, with sun and crisp temperatures, and blue,blue skies. Our leaves rarely get brilliant, because the rain knocks them down before it gets cold enough for the color to change, but the streets are full of tan crunchiness, and the air has that dark brown smell. I am so grateful for my friends who love October, because it helps me through what might otherwise be the worst month of the year for me. Thank you, thank you, for sharing your autumnal pleasures. What do you like best about October?