I'm glad I waited to do Shikoni's cage, the new Stealth wheel came yesterday! I put his old free-standing wheel in the boys' cage; I don't think the walls are sturdy enough to hang a side-mount wheel. They played on it all night.

I washed the coconut from the boys' cage Sunday, it was dry yesterday so I put it in Shikoni's along with a corner hammock, swing, pouch and floor fleece from the new set. With the new wheel and still some of his old toys, it's pretty busy in there. I went to attach a bell to his fleece rope, and when I came back to hang it, he was in the coconut! He doesn't like new things, but there he was, in the middle of the day, in the coconut! I was pleased as could be.

Dinner last night: pork steak, fat trimmed then nuked; mixed vegs with celery; mango. This morning: Kioko and Washi left only a few pieces of celery. Shikoni left most of the vegs and one piece of mango. Sometimes he gets in a phase where he mostly only eats his protein. It lasts only two or three days, sometimes only one.

I posted a recipe for gingersnaps, hoping for someone to post their favorite cookie recipe for me to try. Those guys are so silly! I have to laugh, I really love the jokes - one of the things I like so much about this site, everyone has fun with it. I feel like I know so many of the people here, of course not the details of lives etc. but the spirit in which they live. The friendliness and generosity of all really gives me a lift.

Wanted to carry the boys on me, but I was baking and didn't think that would be a good idea. I made Pa's Cookies yesterday, 10 dozen. They are so good! I hope Mama takes some to her Christmas party Thursday night, she's made several kinds of low-sugar, low fat; so many people in the group have to watch their intake. Anyway, she is welcome to take some gingersnaps and some of Pa's Cookies as well. (I still can't believe we found that recipe so many years after Pa died.) I wish I had time to make several more kinds before Thursday, but it isn't gonna happen.

Christmas plans: no one's coming to stay, at least no one has mentioned it. Most everyone has to work including me; not on the actual day but the day after. So we'll have an open-house kind of thing with *cookies* and cold cut trays, a pot of San Antonio coffee, a bottle of Jack, etc. of Christmas Eve; and we'll get out the Thanksgiving leftover turkey, make a small batch of noodles and bake a butternut squash, salad, etc. Have a peaceful day. The older Mama gets the less commotion she can stand, and that'll be the time I'm moving gliders into the same room, so we really don't need a lot of visitors at that time.

 

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Kioko and Washi came to live with me on 11/23/08: five-year old brothers. As of February '09, we're having great luck with bringing them all together into one happy little colony. Favorite Quote
1) ...I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. ... Big, undreamed-of things --- the people on the edge see them first. Kurt Vonnegut, "Player Piano" 2) Beauty fades, dumb is forever -- Judge Judy, almost daily My Bio
Very old, b. 1957 in New Martinsville, WVa. Live in Central Texas now. I'm Mother to Ophelia, a 4-foot ball python; Domino, a regular cat; and Shikoni, Washi and Kioko, three lively gliders; and Step-Mother to Mike, a 13-year old former stray yellow shepherd. We and other humans all live together in quite surprising harmony.

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