Sweet Sixteen

Love this old boy. He’s the sweetest even if he has gotten way more talkative and wants to talk while we’re trying to sleep.

We can see the age on him considerably more this year but he still does pretty good for an old boy. We’re getting close on our last build house so hopefully soon there’s a lot more cuddling each day. I plan to hermit for at least a month. This will be his 4th home move with us. I still really miss his sister Trinity. She really didn’t care for us moving each time but she would’ve loved watching the wildlife at our next home. Tyler has been known to duck from birds

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I found the perfect pantry!

On our final build, we have a walk-in butler pantry with a pass-through to the kitchen plus a space to slide the coffee pot & toaster back out of view.

The last pet food recall (from me)

12/16/2022

HEB TEXAS PETS

HEB TEXAS PETS Indoor Complete Dry Cat Food

Potential Salmonella contamination

TFP Nutrition

Hello all,

If you followed my blog just for the recalls only you may want to unfollow me. I hope you continue to stay but while we’re building and I have NO time to do anything much less keep up with my blog I made the decision to let this pet food recall notification go.

There is another gal, Susan Thixton, that does it way better than I ever dreamed of anyway. Check her site out, it includes so much more than pet food recalls, and unlike me, she seems to have all her ducks in a row.

This recall here actually came out on the 16th and I didn’t even see it until tonite. I simply don’t have enough hours in the day.

YOu can find her sites here:
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
TruthaboutPetFood.com
AssociationforTruthinPetFood.com

Hopefully, after we’re in the house and I play catch up on the things I have to and really want to, I’ll get back to my blog, waterfalling, book covers, talking about Tyler and sharing photos.

In case I don’t get back on here before the weekend, I’d like to wish each and every one of you a very merry & blessed Christmas and a happy new year.

I hope you stay tuned but I wish the best regardless. ~ Kim

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Why didn’t I think of that sooner?

Here’s an atypical short post from me 🙂 We’re still working on the land is this ridiculous heat and humidity so during my time off I haven’t really felt like sitting at a computer.

I bought Tyler raised bowls a while back (glass or ceramic only no plastic) but he also likes water in other places and I want him to have water readily available. He’s getting older, and more arthritic (and deaf). Now he doesn’t have to squat to drink.

I was going to buy a single raised water bowl but I noticed a scratcher he no longer used, so I cut the ends off to make legs and set his glass water bowl on top. I did add another one to the floor just in case he didn’t like it but he did. The only issue is when I pick up his bowl to wash and refill sometimes he tries to get his 15-pound self on top of the old scratcher and I only used Elmer’s glue to stick the legs on.

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It’s my super senior (geriatric) boy’s 15th birthday today :)

He still runs and plays even if he pays for it later in the day when he overdoes it. He is still the neediest velcro cat we’ve ever adopted and I couldn’t love him any more than I do. He’s got us both wrapped around his big ole paws. His hearing has declined a LOT, and he got a “horny nail” thing but other than those nothing has really changed drastically. His nerves have eased up on the gabapentin and he still eats and drinks normally and his coat is still shiny and kept as well as he’s always kept it.

So thankful to have shared these years as his cat mom. I truly wish his sister had lived longer!

Yes, he got his favorite treats for his photo session.

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and finally the kitchen on the 1 yr anniversary of getting our C.O.

I can not believe we got our certificate of occupancy a YEAR ago today. I feel like we just moved in. I also can’t believe it’s taken me a year to get to all the posts on the house we built and that we’re already working on the next one and final one…. but here we go – who needs a break anyway 🙂

Waterrock knob to Browning knob, the last hiking trail along the parkway before Cherokee, and the last voyage of one Cessna 414.

The Browning Knob plane crash proves you can be on course and still face disaster, that things can change in the blink of an eye and you’re never guaranteed tomorrow.

Windows, doors, studs and rain chains, oh my

This is mostly about what we did in the house we’re in now that we built and moved into last April, the alabaster modern farmhouse, but there are references to our past homes and what will be our final build, that we’re working on the land now while we WAIT on others to do what they need to do before we can really get going.

0 for 2 on root canals

My first root canal was on a lower right molar. The endodontist did not get it numb and I was in agony during the entire procedure. I do not recall being unable to eat or it affecting me long after that one day. I swore I’d never do another one, then double swore after I learned Bergman didn’t get it the canal all the way filled.

Firsts on the new house

Before I really get into sharing more on the last house we will be building in 2022, I thought I’d share a broad list of the few things we tried new for the house we’re in now, that we built and moved into in 2021.

This will likely be part 1 on a 3 part series.

Hubby and I have come a long way over the years and house builds. Not to say we agree on every detail because we absolutely don’t. We both have what’s important to each of us, and where we can and will compromise. We also have things we like that get repeated and things we want to try something different.

This 2021 alabaster farmhouse had an entire page of “rules” I had to stick to on the design because it’s the smallest land we’ve built on and the septic took up most of the yard, moving the house South and East more than we preferred. There was also a fine line between how high it was getting in the back, how many courses of block for the daylight basement, how high off the ground to work versus how far below the road and the driveway steepness. All a balancing act of what would be best for us, and best for resale.

We did lots and lots of first.