Hidden treasures, unseen spaces and cats!

To start with, I'm not the best housekeeper but I think that if I don't see a space on a daily basis then I assume it's clean. Well, I have two cats who I love very much. You all know about Pancho, of course, the most perfect 11 year old, diabetic, has-lots-of-fur, thinks-he's-a-dog, chubby, orange tabby cat on the planet. And then there's year and a half old Luci. Luci.

Luci joined us last June from Illinois, along with straight-from-college-DAUGHTER, and around the same time that we were getting bad doctor's vibes on HUSBAND. So Luci was a fun diversion from other stuff. She definitely took up a lot of space. Pancho and Luci get along fine but Pancho can send Luci sailing across the room with one casual swipe of his paw. Pancho's pretty layed back about his strong points. I like a modest man! Pancho likes to sleep on the ottoman next to HUSBAND most nights, since his illness. Luci likes to sleep an inch from my face.

Luci LOVES her toys; bottle tops, bread ties, pieces of wadded up paper, small balls of yarn, large balls of yarn, etc. But her favorite thing is a long chenille pipe cleaner, the kind you get at craft stores. Anyway, she always looses her toys after just a few minutes of really getting into them, then spends 30 minutes yelling at us to please find them for her. For the past week she has been obsessed with looking under the stove in the kitchen.

So, today while I was home, I noticed how really, really obsessed she was with that spot under the stove and I got seriously worried that she was going to get in the way of HUSBAND's feet and cause him to fall or that he was going to toss her out the back door (HUSBAND has a serious illness which I'm sure I'll get into at some point). So I FINALLY pulled out the drawer under the stove and found out why she wanted under there. I found 8 pipe cleaners, a fish toy, a banana toy, 2 chip bag clips, 3 bottle tops, countless straws, a tie-wrap, and numerous puff-ball type cat toys, and some other cat related stuff. Other than that, the space was surprisingly clean!! Hence my comment about not being a good housekeeper. So maybe I was right about unseen spots being clean.

And, so maybe I'll tell my "friends-reject", sometimes housekeeper, who comes when she wants to show up & needs the money that she is working too hard. I tried to take a picture of HUSBAND and his amusement at the whole thing today but I couldn't quite get the shot he preferred. hum. I'm pretty sure I heard him make some sort of comment when he walked off, though!. He has always lovingly tolerated my cats and has always known that on lots of days, over 35 years, he has come in a distant second to them!