SPROOINNNNNNGGG!

[talktooloose]

Six weeks ago (less?) our backyard was a bowl of snow. Now life returns. We've bought plants (including yellow raspberries) and hung clothes out to dry. The cat basically lives in the warm world sights, sounds and smells. The lilac is about to bloom.

Life is good.

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[gavin.livejournal.com]

That is one fat cat you've got there! Just about as large as my cat.

Voluptuous, dammit!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, oh dear.

Yeah, he was always a big boy. A year ago, he was just under 17 pounds. He was on a calorie reduced food. Then he started getting urinary tract problems. The vet switched him to a preventative food after directly attacking the problems with anti-biotics. The urinary tract problems vanished, but the new, higher fat food made him balloon. We sort of didn't notice as it was day by day. So, we took him to the vet a few weeks ago: 22 pounds. Can you believe it?

See, there is no amount of food that will satisfy this beast. He has no internal stop switch. So, now we're on a food that both reduces calories and prevents urinary problems. That and the increased summer activity should help.

Sheesh.

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

See, I hear Toronto is really great, and those are nice pictures, but the whole "bowl of snow" thing six weeks ago fills my small, warm, southern mind with terror.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

The lilac?! It's about time I walked up the river to a place where several acres of meadow overgrown with lilacs. It must be the site of an old farmhouse, long gone. Lilacs are one of my favourite things.