The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Found out today that hubby will be home until at least 2nd September. The lockdown for the territory he works in has already been extended by 2 weeks and we were only 4 days into it.

As for the lockdown in the state we live in, the least said about that the better. No end in sight.
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Sounds like a mix of bad and good. Try to focus on the good -- hubby will be home for a while. Make the most of that.

CD
 
Yorky said:
I used to own a Walker CJ55 with an SME3009 arm with Shure V15 III. Long gone now I guess together with the shed load of vinyl.
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Nice. I have a Denon 3000 with an sme 3009.
caseydog said:
My last turntable was made by Dual. which probably doesn't exist anymore.

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My first turntable was a dual. They still make them.

Yorky, I meant the turntable was nice, not that it's long gone. That's too bad, nice unit.
 
caseydog said:
We got a very nice rain today. Around and inch fell in one hour. That is a rare and pleasant surprise for us in mid August.

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Oh how nice. We did too. At the temp dropped to 20c, very very nice. It rained for some 5-6 hours, till about 1-2pm I think...no more rain since.
 
Send good thoughts towards Serenity. She's now dipping into further kidney failure, although she still will eat. (She is the front cat in my avatar photo.) Over the weekend she acted weird (well, not her usual self). And now she is incontinent. Her urine accidents do not smell like anything other than water. She will be visiting the vet this week, but I doubt there is much if anything they can do. She is already on the Kidney Disease diet.

She may not make it to twenty years. (That would be November 11th.)

Note, she's been around here longer than most marriages last. But she still wants to eat, and she still wants to be with me.
 
Mountain Cat said:
Send good thoughts towards Serenity. She's now dipping into further kidney failure, although she still will eat. (She is the front cat in my avatar photo.) Over the weekend she acted weird (well, not her usual self). And now she is incontinent. Her urine accidents do not smell like anything other than water. She will be visiting the vet this week, but I doubt there is much if anything they can do. She is already on the Kidney Disease diet.

She may not make it to twenty years. (That would be November 11th.)

Note, she's been around here longer than most marriages last. But she still wants to eat, and she still wants to be with me.
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Sorry to hear that. I lost my cat to cancer 2 years ago and I still remember him fondly as my first (and so far only) son. Many people don't understand that losing a dear housepet is as hard as losing a member of the family.
 
Mountain Cat said:
Note, she's been around here longer than most marriages last. But she still wants to eat, and she still wants to be with me.
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That's how our Kate was when she passed, which made it a really hard thing to do, but it was the best thing for her. She struggled to eat, not the actual consuming of food, but just being able to stand long enough to eat a meal. She's go to her bowl, start to eat, then I'd see her dig her nails into the carpet to try and stay upright, but she'd never make it on her own. For the last few weeks, one of us held her just enough to steady her while she ate, and we knew it was time.

For her, the desire to stay near us was another big indicator of the amount of anxiety she was likely feeling the last year or so. She was always incredible aloof and we used to joke that she was a cat in a dog's body, but that last year, she wanted to be where she felt safe, because she couldn't rely on her own failing body to keep her safe.

It's a real heartbreaker, isn't it? I'll tell you, the days leading up to Kate's passing were some of the hardest, harder than the day of, really, but we do think we did right by her in the end. I'm betting you'll feel that way as well.

Share some good stories about Serenity if you like. I think back to funny/sweet things both our dogs did, and it still lifts me up.
 
Her "brother" (they weren't related) had to be put down last year. Serenity missed him terribly. So I let her sleep with me, and she enjoyed that. She even got to meowing (YOWLING) loudly after she had some breakfast because she wanted me to crawl back into bed with her. I had to tell her I am not a cat, and can't sleep all day. But having some living body warm around during the COVID thing, when one lives alone, and can't even hug friends.... it meant a lot to me.

I will keep people posted, and will talk about her and share some of her stories. She has a few. She even has her own online presence at a writing site, where she goes by the name of Miw - the ancient Egyptian word for cat. She hasn't been that active there in recent years, however.
 
The production manager had to cancel his 2 week holiday in Florida, instead he and his wife hired a cottage in this country for this week, he is answering emails and folks are calling him... bet his wife is happy about that.
 
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