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2011 09 08

Cat news!  Bruce and Muttney have reached detente!  Shadow and Bruce have reached detente!  Shadow would rather that Muttney cease to exist but occasionally forgets to try to hiss him to death.  If this is to be the usual state of affairs, some of us are going to be really unhappy.

Last Friday was Cele's birthday - 28! - and we were unable to host a dinner for her because of compromising events.  The cleaning lady comes Tuesdays and Fridays, so the house was sparkling.   She taught me how to make mole this time as well as cleaning.  Tuesday night the kids came over to celebrate her day:  Cele, her husband Fernando, Saint Paul and Miguel.  I made a herbed pork roast in my pressure cooker and risotto with shrimp and tomato.  Desert was peaches warmed in butter, vanilla and brown sugar and sprinkled with cinnamon and cream.  Gary cobbled together a big enough table, draped it and made it all look pretty.  Everyone had a good time and ate lots of food and laughed a lot.  We are still washing up.  I wonder where I was on my 28th birthday...

Speaking of birthdays and dates with which to mark the passage of time ...  Gary and I will have been together for 10 years December 4th.  Bruce is 14 or 15, Shadow is 12, Muttney is 7.  We are in the usual state of health, Gary is fine and my knee is being a pain.  We are discussing how and when to go back north to get the truck across the border and have a couple of ideas that seem to make sense.  What we actually end up doing is anybody's guess.  Muttney has decided that his bed is the bathroom sink, which he fills completely and inconveniently.

We are going to look at hand-made wooden furniture this afternoon.  And that is all the excitement we have for this post.  It is rather nice to be retired - Tuesday was the most stress we've had in two weeks.

R

6 comments:

  1. Sounds like a fine birthday celebration.

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  2. Sounds like a great meal. I remember that Patches used to sleep in the bathroom sink. Cats are such fun! Be careful with that much excitement though :)

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  3. Sounds like a lovely birthday party.
    TEN years?? How time does fly! Are you planning a big celebration? (at your leisurely, retired, pace, you'd best start with the planning now!) lol

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  4. HUGE celebration - we'll probably have sex for the first time in months.... lolololol

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  5. Dear one - alas, our math skills are inversely proportional to the number of our years. It will be NINE years in December (December 4, 2002 was the date our non-holy union was blessed by a Notary so the California Secretary of State would give us a Registered Domestic Partners Certificate), so I could present it to the University Officialistas and we could get you some health insurance & other piddling trifles. One thing I wonder - shouldn't we have been categorized as Registered International Partners? The more significant day in my mind was the one - more than a year before we actually laid eyes on each other - you Erotically Enlightened me regarding my lifelong horror of brussels sprouts. So maybe we can have sex come December, 2012...

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  6. Okay, so I can't remember shit. It has been a glorious NINE years then. And Brussels sprouts too? LOL

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recently retired to southern Mexico from Canada