Pragmatist
Pragmatist

You braggin' or complainin'?

;-)

Have you considered having her declawed to prevent the curtain climbing?

I babysat a cat for a friend while she was deployed to the middle east shortly after Desert Storm, her cat (Cosmo) prefered to drink from a dripping faucet over a bowl of water and did the same sleeping in the sink routine. He didn't care if the water was dripping or not, he just loved to curl up somewhere cosy to snooze. I got him out of the sink by getting him a Kitty Kuddler like this one:

http://www.petsmart.com/global/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441780021&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302025518&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=2534374302023690&bmUID=1159451095312&itemNo=1&In=Cat&N=2025518&Ne=2

I have to admit, it was nice not having the sink and counter sprinkled with cat hairs each morning after Cosmo started sleeping in the Kuddler.

Hopefully Beauty will grow out of the KK type behavior!
Alli

OH boy you have Beauty and the Beast , I know of one case the Siamese cat of a friend would sit on tolite rim and flush just to watch the water go down, they lived in country so it was power for pump where in the City it would be a big water bill.

my granny had siamese cats when I was young. they didn't like us kids.*well you know how very special they are **. but she also had a boston terrier that would allow me to dress him in doll cloths..
Oh memories..
Glad these 2 seem to tolerate each other better

Don't worry. I'm sure she WILL start climbing the curtains *giggles*

RYC - Sorry about that, it's all fixed now. I needed to click on a box.

RYC: Yes, there is such an animal as a portible generator big enough to handle enough equipment to dry a basement. I bought one when I was up in the Gary/Hammond area week before last. The problem is that we've got 31 homes to dry and a portable generator big enough to handle even one home runs about $1700 so it isn't economically feasible to buy enough of them to dry every job. Worse yet, the daily rental on one that size runs about $600 and the insurance companies aren't willing to pay that. Add to that the fact that most of the homeowners in question don't have insurance for this kind of flooding and you're in a real bind. The fact that we're talking homes with values above $1.5 million dollars tends to mean that the homeowners are cheap (yeah, I know. That seems weird. They are the ones who will dicker with you to the last penny) and you've got that much more trouble.

So, long story short; the power company will have to get things back on line or else they are looking at a very long line of people who will be more than happy to sue the living crap out of them for failure to provide necessary services in an emergency situation

thanks for your comments in my travelogue. Much appreciated :-)
re pictures show. yes, I know that the file is rather big and it was really more of a struggle between a wish to show more and a need of keeping sensible size of it. the file is about 6MB, so if you've got a slow connection, then I would say: right-mouse-click on the link, select "save target as" and just save it temporary on your pc. watch the show, then simply delete it afterwords so that it won't take space on your hard drive. when its not buffering, it will run smoother.
hope this helps

RYN: Not yet on the rings being resized. I probably won't until the first of the year or soon after. I suppose I'm finally close enough to my goal weight that it won't matter but at this point I've lost nearly three ring sizes and on the off chance I lose another size I want to wait. I don't want to have them cut more than once if I can help it. I can't wait though, I'm tired of wearing gobs of yarn on the back of them to keep them on my fingers! :o)