lately: kitteh hideaway, ant massacre, meeting stray dogs, mushroom chair, guitar hero

Aaron describes the first two better than I could ever hope to on his blog.
Basically, I came up with the idea of making a shelter for the stray cat that we feed, because I found myself lying awake at night thinking about how cold it was going to get. But it had to be really well hidden because our HOA lady is really strict. Luckily, in the last couple of months, our neighbors have started putting out potted plants by their doors. Like, really ugly things, in my opinion--large clay pots that are faux-fancy. But! it gave me the idea to camouflage the hideout as a large potted plant, by having a false bottom to the pot. The finished result can be seen on the flickr site. Now we just have to wait and see whether the cat uses it or not.

Oh, and we massacred some ants with Terro traps. There are corpses floating in the liquid poison, still. We leave it as a warning to the others.

The stray dogs we met looked like dingos, and were hanging out in a Carnival grocery store parking lot near the condo. I sent Aaron into Carnival to buy some cans of dog food and the dollar store next to it for some leashes to capture them with. (Does this remind you of our kitten pervert days, Lis? As you can see, I am expanding my repertoire to dogs.)
We did manage to get one of them, but then it threw a fit. It was insane how crazy that dog got. And it broke the leash. And then this Hispanic family walked out of the store and to a house on the same street, and the dogs followed them to the house. So I walked over to the house and asked if the dogs were theirs, but they said the dogs were "calle" dogs. Which I don't know if I believe. But anyway, we left them because 1) we couldn't catch them 2) I had no idea what to do with them after I caught them 3) maybe they were being fed pretty regularly by that family, because they looked really healthy.

We got the mushroom chair from craigslist and it is officially the most cozy nap chair ever. I think it looks like a mushroom, Aaron thinks it looks like a bird's nest...it's also sort of an eyesore, but makes up for it with cozy-ness. My idea of a perfect day is curling up on it, with Dwight (on a non-anal-gland-juice day) and reading a book. And it's raining outside.