Kath's Cat

Shared an apartment with Kath right after high school.  Wasn't the last time I roomed with her, actually ... eventually we went off to college & shared a space there, too ... and over the years her love of cats finally rubbed off on me.

However, in 1970 I'd never had the pleasure of knowing a cat before, and Kathy's cat took a particular disliking to me, because I expected cats to RESPOND to my wishes ... such as, "Cats do NOT belong sitting on the open toilet seat."

I was forever chasing the cat out of the loo (as you Brits say).  Kitty eventually got so she could hear me coming home, and would get down while my key was still in the apartment door lock, so that by the time I reached the kitchen (the loo was off the kitchen ... isn't THAT gross!), Kitty would be sauntering out the bathroom doorway, yawning at me all innocent-like.

Kitty KNEW what time I got off work (I got home sooner than Kath).  HOWEVER!

One day, I came home unexpectedly for lunch, and evidently I startled Kitty cuz as I reached the kitchen, I heard,

SPA-LASH, ME-YOW-OW-OW-OW!

and out of the bathroom came a streak of wet cat, lifting dripping paws in disgust with every step. 

I must say, I laughed my you-know-what off! 

  Sorry, Kitty. 

Writers Block Challenge # 23

Stuff and Nonsense by Rani Kaye

(formerly known as “Mystic Poet”):

 

This should be a cozy haunt:

Up and down the stairs I jaunt.

If I try to walk away,

I’ll find I’m asleep, and stay.

If I try to reach "awake"

I’ll discover my mistake:

(Flying through here in the rain ...

Lightening out my window pane ...

Pelting teardrops o’er my head;

I am really still in bed!)

Have you ever dreamed you waked?

Took a walk, and couldn’t shake

Some fool notion you’re not there

But asleep in bed, somewhere?

If you do, just say a prayer!

And your spirit will recover;

Leaving dreamland, find the other

Place that is your true abode

(While the shades of death withhold

Your existence from the sky ...

In determined steps to try

To remember on which day

You assumed a shell of clay,

And were bound by time and space

To exist in but one place

Until time and space shall end --

Then you get to fly again!)

 

-- Poem by Rani Kaye, all rights reserved

Joy

"Weeping may endure for a night, but JOY cometh in the morning." -- Psalm 30:5 KJV

 

Yes!

Puh-leeez tell me all the work I did till 3:30 last night putting those pictures back on my blogs has made it through the night ......  E-YES!!!!! 

Happy day!

Later, y'all -- Time to earn my livin'!

Yahoooooooo!

Oh, I get it!!!  I copied and pasted my photos (my very own photos!!!!!!) from my yahoo blogs into my Multiply blogs ... but they came with a nasty little yahoo link.  They looked just fine last night ... but today they are little x-in-a-boxes, and when you click 'em you link to yahooooey.  Blah!

Okay.  I can deal with this.  Give me some time.  I will fix all the blogs by re-posting the photos from my computer, instead of from (good riddance) yahoo.

And just when I thought I was all moved in and gettin' settled, too.  Sigh.

  Hee hee hee -- Look what I just snagged (with permission) from our Yahoo Refugee Group site --- Thanx Alan!

Stuffed Cabbage

1 lg. cabbage (scald to remove leaves)
1/2 c. brown rice (boil in 1 qt. salt water 10 min, drain, & rinse)
1 med. onion (dice & cook in 2 T. olive oil 'til transparent)
1 lb. ground lamb
1/2 lb. bulk turkey sausage
1 egg
1-1.2 t. Lawry's seasoned salt
1/2 t. garlic powder
1/4 t. garlic pepper
5 slices turkey bacon (uncooked)
1 can tomato soup, combined with 1 soup can of water

Spray roasting pan with canola oil spray. 
Combine the rice, onion, meats, egg, and seasonings in a separate bowl. 
Remove the leaves from the scalded cabbage, drain them, and then put the meat mixture into the cabbage leaves and roll them up like a cigar or something. 
Place the rolls into the roasting pan.  Top with 5 slices of turkey bacon. 
Combine 1 can of tomato soup with 1 soup can of water, and then pour this over the bacon-topped cabbage rolls. 
Cover the roaster with either its lid, or some Reynolds Wrap.  Bake at 350 for about 2 hours. 

Delicious!  Even little kids will eat it IF YOU DON'T TELL THEM WHAT IT'S CALLED UNTIL AFTER THEY HAVE TRIED IT.

Been strolling through the neighborhood

Got up early this morning, after staying here late last night moving my blogs over from 360 and MySpace.  Have spent the past hour-and-a-half strolling through the neighborhood, and trying to remember to say hi everyplace I go ... but I'm not very gregarious in real life (kinda shy) so remembering to comment is a newly-learned skill for me.

I have a recipe to post before the kids get up, but I wanted to say hi to y'all.  I LIKE it here on Multiply!  I LOVE the way the My Multiply page shows me all my friends' friends and what y'all are up to!  Makes me feel so connected and so welcome!

Well, gotta type out that recipe.  Got one grandson here for an overnight, and even HE loved eating this yesterday!  Youngest son, of course, is almost 17, and eats EVERYTHING!