Open Post and Cat Pictures!
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kimberlysteelePlease refrain from profanity in the comments... Gods bless you!
This is the cat tree my husband built near our front door. It is made of PVC plumbing pipes, wood, and sticky-backed industrial carpeting. You can probably see the cats have ripped the carpeting to shreds. This is in the living room of our small house -- it almost qualifies as a tiny house at 675 square feet. My recording/lesson studio is actually hidden in this room.
Below is a picture of some of the cat shelves in my office, a petite room in the front of the house. The cats can roam and sleep above my desk. I keep most of my files, makeup, sewing, and other supplies in the mirror-doored IKEA wardrobe by the desk. Some of you might recognize this little room from my Sphere of Protection video -- it is the same space.
This is my office window. The stained glass is fake -- it is a sticker. The grille is a piece of wall "art" from Hobby Lobby. I think I paid about $25 for it. It keeps the cats from trying to bust through the screen.
Shadow Shadilay Sniffles Spazzimodo Steele. My husband built the island out of an old IKEA bookshelf we had and added the "wood" laminate top. The space under the counter has a rolling rack where we store cat food. The cats also have a covered litter box under there. We also have a second covered litter box under my office desk and a third one in the bedroom.
This is the cat tree my husband built near our front door. It is made of PVC plumbing pipes, wood, and sticky-backed industrial carpeting. You can probably see the cats have ripped the carpeting to shreds. This is in the living room of our small house -- it almost qualifies as a tiny house at 675 square feet. My recording/lesson studio is actually hidden in this room.
Below is a picture of some of the cat shelves in my office, a petite room in the front of the house. The cats can roam and sleep above my desk. I keep most of my files, makeup, sewing, and other supplies in the mirror-doored IKEA wardrobe by the desk. Some of you might recognize this little room from my Sphere of Protection video -- it is the same space.
This is my office window. The stained glass is fake -- it is a sticker. The grille is a piece of wall "art" from Hobby Lobby. I think I paid about $25 for it. It keeps the cats from trying to bust through the screen.
Ashley Amore Reed Cocklebur Steele. This is in the kitchen. The stools came from a guy in nearby Wheaton from Facebook Marketplace; I think they were $10 each or less. The seats are pretty beat up and need a refinishing.
Shadow Shadilay Sniffles Spazzimodo Steele. My husband built the island out of an old IKEA bookshelf we had and added the "wood" laminate top. The space under the counter has a rolling rack where we store cat food. The cats also have a covered litter box under there. We also have a second covered litter box under my office desk and a third one in the bedroom.
The kitchen -- my husband used our old IKEA bookshelves from past apartments and pulled apart/hacked more IKEA shelves for the walls. The only cost was the L brackets and the industrial stick-back carpeting so the cats don't slip and slide.
I have trained both of the cats to fetch but only Shadow likes to show off for photos.
This is yet another IKEA bookshelf, this time with holes cut into it so the cats can weave through to the top.
Tarot questions
Date: 2023-01-31 06:18 pm (UTC)Questions for everyone about tarot.
- Can anyone recommend good books for interpreting tarot cards (Rider Waite or similar)? Right now I go to four or five different websites for each card but I'd like to have some real books on hand.
- In the past, when I got a new tarot deck, I just started using it. But now I'm wondering if I should pray over the cards or consecrate them first. What do people usually do? My belief system is a sloppy mix of Christian and Celtic pagan. Still trying to figure that one out.
Re: Tarot questions
Date: 2023-02-01 05:12 pm (UTC)I sadly cannot help you with the tarot -- I have a deck but its currently in stasis because I use Ogham with my own system. I keep meaning to turn that system into a book even though Ogham isn't very popular as a divination method. It seems to me this would be a good question to ask on the Ecosophia Magic Monday board if you don't get any traction here.
Re: Tarot questions
Date: 2023-02-03 10:46 pm (UTC)While knowing the textbook definitions is valuable, and helps to contextualize the reading, I've always found that the best results come from glancing at the cards and letting the images tell the story, and also that each time you look at a given card some small aspect is going to catch your eye and change the way it "feels" on that given day. This is never an accident.
Re: Tarot questions
Date: 2023-02-04 05:49 pm (UTC)Re: Tarot questions
Date: 2023-02-05 01:23 am (UTC)—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2023-02-07 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-31 06:20 pm (UTC)I howled laughing at all they've shredded because SAME THING HAPPENING NOW AS I TYPE THIS!
I soooooo thank you for taking time and trouble to help a sister out on my kitty pitch.
Good morning!
X
Erika
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Date: 2023-02-01 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-03 04:26 pm (UTC)James doesn't wanna keep all five so i'm still trying to pitch this and make it work.
(smile)
x
erika
Grille
Date: 2023-02-01 08:20 pm (UTC)I may steal that idea.
Annette
Re: Grille
Date: 2023-02-02 09:09 pm (UTC)X
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Date: 2023-02-01 09:15 pm (UTC)X
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Date: 2023-02-02 01:31 am (UTC)Annette
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Date: 2023-02-02 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-02 03:10 am (UTC)I was 20 I tried to convince my roommate that we needed a cat. I failed. Then she saw a mouse in our new apartment and changed her mind. I went to the humane society the next day. A sweet tuxedo cat picked me and I brought her home. The cat killed a mouse right away. A happy ending for everyone except the mouse.
Your cats, Kimberly, are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing the pics.
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Date: 2023-02-02 05:51 am (UTC)Some comic relief... posted over at the Ecosophia Covid Open Post as well.
Date: 2023-02-02 06:19 am (UTC)A group of has-been celebrities are currently calling for a one-month strike, stating: “It’s about time people understood that we’re the ones with the power and that our audiences are there to serve us, not the other way around”, a spokesperson for the group said in an press release."
We are there to serve THEM! The above does not appear to be satire.
But wait! Like a lengthy late night infomercial, there's more!
“We’re calling for a general strike that would include every single person involved in making motion pictures in Hollywood, starting with the actors and celebrities themselves and encompassing companies in charge of making props, movie memorabilia, and even souvenir shops.”
OH NOES, NOT THE SOUVENIR SHOPS!!!! WHATEVER SHALL WE DO????
Rosie O’Donnell, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Gene Simmons are a few of the people pushing this future Babylon Bee skit. A spokesperson states:
"Hollywood is, simply put, the base of the entire modern American culture. It is the foundation of the country, so to speak, the glue that’s holding it together. And think about what happens when you destroy the foundation of a house. It comes crashing down, right?"
RIGHT??? LIKE OMIGOD, I'M SO SURE! (Flips fried blonde poodle hair out of face) I know that whenever I go in my basement to fiddle with the water heater or whatever I do down there, I totally think of the integral role of celebrities from old sitcoms and talk shows as I look at the beams that hold my house aloft. They're way more important than that *cough in their own minds uncough* because they are holding up ALL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, YO.
Of course Slime I mean Goop (Gywneth Paltrow) is hawking long Covid remedies on her shyster website. Nice to know some celebs never change!
Re: Some comic relief... posted over at the Ecosophia Covid Open Post as well.
Date: 2023-02-02 08:06 pm (UTC)Re: Some comic relief... posted over at the Ecosophia Covid Open Post as well.
Date: 2023-02-02 08:41 pm (UTC)How should we serve them? Fried, boiled in oil, poached, BBQ? Raw, medium rare, well done, or charred?
:-) :-) :-)
Coop Janitor
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Date: 2023-02-03 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-03 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-03 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-02-03 04:32 pm (UTC)anyhow, so this morning before work James said, "what if you have a character and her MINIONS are cats and they DO things..."
and i said YES!
i'm just talking. nothing of value here yet if at all.
(giggle)
just wobbly new ideas i'm poking about...
but i dig that it started with you and your video of sphere of protection and how you ARE. thanks.
x
erika
I know the formal period is over, but...
Date: 2023-02-07 05:52 pm (UTC)Well, with the bruhaha about Hogwart's Legacy, the prophecy has been fulfilled, sort of.