My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[whitelop]

I can sit and eat those little goldfish for hours. I like them as my wine drinking snack. LOL

So I have to tell you guys what just happened. I'm not even sure if I totally understand what happened...
I just got up from a nap, my son was sleeping and I don't feel 100% today for some reason, I'm a little headachey today. So I was letting the cats in from outside, I had my cup of old coffee in my hand(holy crap my vitamins are in my pocket still, no wonder I don't feel well. Sorry, just thought about it.) Anyway, I was walking to the microwave with the cup. I'm shuffling along through 3 cats and a rabbit when I hear and feel something hit my pant leg. I look down and Ellie had sprayed my pant leg, my slipper, my floor between my foot and the cat AND the cat. I don't know how she did it, I'm also in a little bit of a nap haze. But HOW did she do that? So I stood there for a minute and looked at my cat and her whole back end and tail are covered in pee, Ellie is scampering off as happy as a clam.

I am so confused. And my slippers have been violated. WTF just happened? Are they supposed to spray? :foreheadsmack:

 

[Chrisdoc]

Females spray a lot less than males but do spray when they´re hormonal so looks like Ellie has her hormones all over the place. I just laughed out loud at her doing all that and then just hopping off with a smug smile on her face thinking...how good was that lmao. She is just hilarious but I bet she´s driving you nuts now. I tell you just before I had mine neutered, Houdini was doing my head in, I spent more time cleaning up pee off the furniture and myself that I was glad to get them to the vets to have them done.

Those goldfish biscuits are so good, Í have nearly eaten the whole packet, there are some left in the bottom and I am tempted to finish it off. JUst had a beer with them so I love them with that, I tell you if they sold them here all the time, I´d be seriously putting on weight lol.

 

[whitelop]

She is making me insane. I kind of don't even know what to do with her. I kind of want to just put her in the cage until she goes to the vet, but that would be wrong. Ugh.
Now off to do the wash.

 

[lyndym]

Oh man, Ellie is going crazy! I really don't have any experience with spraying.. D&D were fixed as soon as they came of age because they were a M/F pair, so full-blown hormonal stuff like that didn't happen to them. (Ugh just thinking again about how the rescue lady dumped me with an unfixed M/F pair without warning me about bonding.. I was so confused when they started fighting because of her.. So disappointing when someone trying to do such a great thing is kind of terrible at it. UGH anyway, again so happy I got two great buns but glad I didn't go back to her and got Aurora from another rescue.) I'm sure a spay would calm Ellie down a lot though. I know you're more nervous than most would be about it because of Foo, but wasn't Foo older than Ellie is? I would assume just like it is with people, it's harder with surgery once they are older. Dora handled her surgery fine, but as time went on, she had so many other health complications and proved to have a weaker body. I'm sure if I had her spayed later, it might not have gone as smoothly.

Aw, I got a little sad when you said you miss Foo when Ellie misbehaves because she wasn't such a trouble maker. I feel the same over here, mostly over Aurora's hostility towards Doc and also how she's a little more on the skittish side. Dora just had such a big personality, it cracked me up how she was the smallest little thing, but she definitely was the big kid on campus. I'd be eating a sandwich on the couch, and she'd jump into my lap and her nose would follow the sandwich towards my mouth. Aurora hasn't been on the couch with me yet no matter how many times I give her pellets when she comes close. And Doc is on the couch with me less because he'd always wait for Dora to come up first. Every bun is different, and I am thankful for the differences because I can love them all for different reasons, but.. I really miss do miss Dora.

And also these goldfish biscuits sound amazing, I have never seen them before!!

 

[agnesthelion]

Oh no Morgan sorry about the spraying UHg. Sounds like you got "lucky" and got a female that sprays. As Chris said not common but they do do it. And I've heard they can spray far!!!!

If it were me, pee is just where I draw the line. When Agnes was peeing on my couch during her hormonal days, I kept her in her cage and only had free run during supervised time only. So i wouldn't feel bad if you were to keep her confined. It's not like you wouldn't get her out and interact with her. I just won't tolerate any animal peeing in my house. It just wouldn't fly with me. But that's just me. Everyone has different levels of tolerance. Mine ends with pee

Those goldfish are yummy, all those pepperidge farm snacks are! Right now my weakness is the reese's peanut butter eggs. I can't buy them at the store because I was stuff my face with them! Hahaha

 

[Chrisdoc]

I remembered Morgan mentioning them and when I was in the store the other day, they´ve got foods from around the world and when I saw then i was like...yippee, those are the ones she mentioned so I bought two boxes as the second one was half price. I really do like them but I could eat the whole box in one go and that´s not good.

Lisa, I sometimes don´t buy certain things cos I know I´ll stuff my face with it and regret it afterwards so I don´t have those kind of things in the house. I was tempted to buy dry roasted peanuts today but i know I´ll eat loads in one go and they´re really fattening so I do without.

I put up with spraying quite a while but I must admit if I had another bunny the same I´d probably get them done as soon as it started as it´s a nightmare. I still have to paint the walls in the living room behind their cages as he used to spray up there all the time.

I can well understand if you decide to restrict her time outside if it´s becoming a problem, you´ll just have to decide what you want to do.

 

[lyndym]

Ahhh Lisa, Holiday Reese's are the best. The eggs for Easter, the pumpkins for Halloween, the trees for Christmas. I love regular Reese's cups, but the holiday ones.. To me, the peanut butter has a different texture, but it might be the fact that there is simply a lot more peanut butter. That, and the chocolate is way more evenly coated over the holiday shapes - with the cups, it almost seems a little more crackly around the edges, and not uniformly coated at all. Whenever I see a huge bag of holiday Reese's in the store, I have to tell myself to notttt buy ittt. They are so good, though.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

Morgan, I wouldn't blame you for keeping Elvira mostly shut in until her possible spay. I only had pee puddles from Monty, no spraying, but that was enough to overwhelm me and completely turn me off to the idea of letting her out for more than a couple minutes. Goodness, I can't even imagine if she would have started spraying.

Also, REESE'S shapes nom nom nom

 

[PaGal]

I know I haven't gotten Thumper neutered but if he was spraying I would. I worry about the risks as well and haven't done it because he just doesn't seem to be driven crazy by his hormones. I know being sprayed cannot be enjoyable for you or the cats but I'm sure dealing with all of her hormones isn't too enjoyable for her either. I know when I started on puberty I would have liked to end it if I could have.

If Thump would have started spraying he would have had to be caged except for some supervised out time until he could have been neutered. Having to cage her for a short time is not the same as someone that just puts a bun in a cage and feeds it with no interaction.

I love the pizza flavored gold fish but not the ones with the extra flavor, I can't recall the exact name but think it references explosion in some way. The pizza are really hard to find, at least here so when I do find them I buy a couple of bags and then have to try and limit myself.

I drink a lot of coffee throughout the day. Eating is just sporadic. Some days I'll just snack on something like cheez it's and dinner will be my only meal. Sometimes I eat lunch especially if we have something in the house that I like but doesn't take much effort, sometimes I don't eat lunch. I never eat breakfast unless we have what we call breakfast for dinner. That is breakfast foods like pancake, eggs and sausage but at dinner time. I'm just burnt out on cooking. I would enjoy it more but it is always such a rush to get homework done, then cook dinner, then I clean up and do dishes then the kids start to bath. So when it's just me to feed I usually won't make myself anything unless it's almost effortless and some days getting out crackers is too much. Plus I'm picky. I like good home cooked foods so I usually don't want to bother with something like heating a can of soup.

 

[Chrisdoc]

They did advertise the pizza flavoured ones but didn´t have any so I had to get the cheddar but they are really good.

Spraying, I think, is probably one of the main factors on getting them fixed, it is really awful.

I´m lazy sometimes when it comes to cooking as i only have myself to worry about. I did make some soup the other day so that´s what i had today for lunch but I´ve snacked tonight on some carrots and a dip and the goldfish...I´ll probably cook something decent tomorrow but sometimes it´s just too much like hard work lol.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

BAHAHA! I thought of you while I ran across a link to this page while looking up snap pliers. Seemingly unrelated, right? Well, have a laugh at this woman's chicken aprons. Just in case you ever need to protect any from pecking

https://www.facebook.com/numsie

 

[whitelop]

I really enjoy cooking, when I'm cooking for my family. But when its just for me, screw that. I'll eat some lettuce with hot sauce on it and call it a salad, or I'll eat some grape tomatoes and call it a day. Today I made myself a sandwich with the notion that I would take my vitamins, but I didn't take them. I forgot and then said screw it and still didn't take them. Then we got pizza for dinner. But most days I don't even eat the sandwich, I take the vitamins in the morning and hope they don't make me nauseous. Thats why I like the little snack packs of goldfish or cheezeits they're the perfect size for just a snack and that gets me through the day! haha. How sad are we. Its amazing that women live longer than men. But I'm glad to see that I'm not the only horrible eater.
I will do the classic blog thing and tell you guys what I'm cooking for tomorrow. I hope that you guys can enjoy and appreciate a wonderfully crafted cheeseburger the way that I can. I love cheeseburgers, like too much probably. So here it is...its a burger that is stuffed with cheddar cheese and wrapped in like 10 pieces of bacon and grilled to perfection. Served on a bun with arugula and some green chili sauce. Sounds amazing right?! I KNOW! I can not wait to make them. My husband was like, "you know I have heart conditions that run in my family right?" I said yeah, but oh well. If you have a heart attack over this burger, then at least your heart will seize up happy! Thats how I look at life.

I got Ellie into her cage and boy did she look unhappy. Its probably because I yelled "yeah get in there b*tch!" as I was shutting the door. Sad but true, thats the way I talk to them. They know I mean it with love, but she sprayed everyone today! How freaking insane is that. I've like sort of talked to my husband about it, I'll talk to him later. I think its got to happen though. I don't want a caged rabbit but I don't want a rabbit to spray me like some wild animal. haha. She's a house rabbit for petes sake!

Chicken coop build tomorrow! Its probably going to rain but I have to get it done. I'm going to separate all the hens from roosters tonight and separate the big rooster from them all. So the transition will be easier tomorrow. Hopefully I can get the coop done!

 

[PaGal]

Try the pizza if you get the chance. Their cookies are good too!

I got married the first time at 17. My kids are now young adults. Six years ago I started dating my husband and began helping to raise the girls. Most of my life has been responsibility and family life. I wouldn't trade it for the world but I guess it has at slightly worn me out and mostly with the cooking but like I said it is always rushed because there is always so much to do. If I had the time to just do it at a normal pace I would enjoy it more. I'll probably starve once the girls grow up . The sad thing is my husband is a very good cook himself, he just doesn't have the time as he's so busy plus me cooking works better for the girls schedule. It pays off though because they do enjoy the food.

 

[whitelop]

BAHAHA! I thought of you while I ran across a link to this page while looking up snap pliers. Seemingly unrelated, right? Well, have a laugh at this woman's chicken aprons. Just in case you ever need to protect any from pecking

https://www.facebook.com/numsie

I DON'T HAVE A FACEBOOK! I don't know why I had to be all shouty but I felt the need. I saw the feed bag totes which is a great idea because they're waterproof, but I didn't see the apron! AHHH!

I need to learn how to sew. There are so many things I could do if I could sew and had a sewing machine. Like make these little lamb pillow things, they're so cute.

These ones, they're so cute. My kid would love them!

 

[PaGal]

Monty's mommy...thanks for putting up that link! I had to look at it and those animals just made me crack up. I want the ball elephant and I have to have the duck with the bunny hat. I just have to have it. I even had to go out and tell my husband about it.

 

[lyndym]

I eat terribly. Well, I start the day out nicely with some yogurt and granola and berries. I'll have healthy snacks throughout the day like almonds and fruit, maybe have a salad for lunch. Then at night when I'm done with everything and just sitting around with TV and/or rabbits, I get super snacky. I just buy healthy things because of this, but end up overloading on whatever is around. If I can truly eat healthy with no excess snacking for a few days in a row, I can keep it up for a long time. But that usually ends if Luke visits or I visit him, we like to snack and drink wine together. I don't usually cook, but I reeeally enjoy baking. I try not to bake unless I have an occasion to give most away, or else I'll eat everything.

I love those lamb pillows! I'm not a sewer, but I sewed myself a dragon tail as part of the Smaug costume I made myself to wear to the midnight showing of The Hobbit. I actually did it by hand because I don't have a machine and have no idea how to use one, anyway. It actually came out pretty well! I'm randomly good at crafting, but sometimes it just ends up being a frustrating experience and I ruin everything and then throw it away.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

I totally sew a lot of stuff. I'm a fashion design major, but I lean more toward crafty sewing and patternmaking. Gonna start some reusable grocery bags in a second here...finally. I've had the fabric for mine picked out for months, but Beardyman showed and interest last week so I told him to pick out fabric and I'd make him some for our anniversary. (since I don't have money for a good gift, I'll make something)

 

[whitelop]

Thats so cool! Let me know how the reusable bags turn out! The person's facebook with the chicken feed bags, I use that same feed but its a green bag and I tell you, the colors are really vibrant and great! haha. She was totally right about using the blue bag.
I use the bags as covers for the smaller kennels the chickens have to go in sometimes, they're waterproof and make great little roofs.

I got all my chickens separated tonight. The little blue hen gave me quite a scare though. I got 11 counted out and knew that I was missing one blue baby, the hen. So we looked all around but I didn't remember seeing her today. I didn't go out there much today as I didn't feel well. So we stopped and we listened for extra cheeping outside of the cage the babies were in, sure enough there was an extra cheep coming from the house! She was wedged next to the nest box hiding from her evil mama and I grabbed her. She is definitely the easiest one to pick up out of the dozen. I was so worried though, that I lost her. But she is fine and in the rest of the batch with the others.
Tomorrow starts the new coop build. Its going to be a LONG day. Hopefully I can get it all done and put them all back together before Sunday night.
The hen laid her first egg since hatching out the babies 4 weeks ago. I swear they made the numbers for her. Egg hatching=21 days, she hatched them in 21 days. A month to lay first egg after going broody, 4 weeks and 3 days until she laid an egg. She's so good!

 

[Katielovesleo3]

I JUST caught up with your blog...whew! I have been reading it all day. So tired now. Will reply later lol

Oh but!
Lisa! Reese's peanut butter eggs! Yes they do totally have a different texture and I love them so much :0 I bought one package. Seriously...I suck. I need more! I love them and I need more! Now! I am trying so hard not to eat them all. :'(

 

[agnesthelion]

Yes those Reese's eggs are a little piece of heaven in a wrapper. When I est them I basically hide from my son so he doesn't ask for any. I want them all!!!!!!!!!! hahaha

I love to cook but for other people so Morgan I'm just like you if it's just me no way. I can live off anything random. Pickles, cheese, crackers, coffee, wine, Reese's eggs

Morgan.....cheeseburgers are my total comfort food weakness. I'm a sucker for a good burger. It's odd because I'm not the biggest red meat eater, I never eat steak or order it at a restaurant, I'd rather eat fish/seafood or something......but a good burger totally does it for me.

Those sound amazing you should post the recipe. I love experimenting with different burgers.

We have a very popular restaurant here called Zombie Burger. The atmosphere is awesome....all zombie decor. The bar is way cool. And then they have every kinda burger combo you can think of. And they have funny names...like The Undead Elvis which has bananas and peanut butter on it! Never have tried that one but people claim to like it. But yeah, it's yummy