Joan orders from Amazon Fresh regularly. Same day (or early the next day, if you order in the evening) delivery. This time of year, anything that needs to stay cool is put in a foil lined bag, with one or more bottles of frozen water in there to keep your item cool...
Two boxes of butter, with 5 bottles of frozen water to keep the butter cool. We never have to buy bottled water... and here in Arizona, everybody carries a bottle of water this time of year.
"OK, I get the whole 'free water' thing, Jim - you aren't going to show us your Buddha belly are you?" Buddha belly? I'll have you know I am almost svelt these days. No, this belly is attached to a cute baby kitty...
To be fair, when we brought this little girl into our home, she was underweight. Baby kitties should have some belly on them. It has taken 5 months to get to this point. Well, closer to 4 1/2 months, but I'm rounding up... just like little Stella. This sweet kitty is thriving.
She is almost 10 months old; she has been with us about half of her life. She is at that adolescent stage - Joan thinks her ears are a bit big for her head. That's typical of adolescent cats. Cool thing about the ears: I think the shape of them makes her look a bit like a small African wild cat... and, the tips of her ears now have black fur (sprouted in the last week or so)...
Stella and I were talking this morning. She said, "Murphy and I look like you and Mom, right."
"Yes, I see that," I told her.
"That girl that picks me up everytime she comes into our house - she calls you 'Mom & Dad'."
"Yes, that is Stephanie."
"She doesn't look like us," Stella said.
"Your point?"
"Is she adopted?"
"Your Momma birthed her, so: no. Plus, everyone says she acts like her Father. That's me. It's nice that you treat her like family," I said.
"She seems nice."
Stella is pretty perceptive for her young age. ;-)
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What a cutie-pie!
We briefly adopted a shelter cat with long black hairs like that on the ears. He immediately was named "Bob" - as in bobcat. Unfortunately he was quite territorial and did not play nice with Buddy, our previous elderly gentleman. Bob had to go back to the no-kill shelter, which was not easy for us. He was a good cat and got re-adopted within a week.
Hi Earl. I get that: our big concern with bringing Stella home from her life in the parking lot was how Murphy would accept her. We agreed that if Murphy did not accept her, then we would "foster" until she could be re-homed. Fortunately, it all worked out, but we did keep them separated for the first couple weeks.
Now, they lay by each other on the couch when the humans go to bed. It takes them a while to decide to come in with us. They are almost always in the same room, if not close by each other. They seem to take turns with providing security at the patio door or napping on the couch. They share treats nose-to-nose. Meals are in separate sets of bowls (3 each), but they have no issue with "trading lunch." Murph is the alpha male, but Stella is spunky and takes no crap from the big boy.
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