Oh, woe is me...

I know I didn't mention this last month when the event actually took place - I guess I was too pissed to write about it. When LaVaughn and I were cleaning the gliders' cages, Chloe and Violet's cage fell off the back of the truck and busted! Yes, busted!! It was one of the HQ cages, so it has no give at all.

In tears, LaVaughn and I picked up the pieces and proceeded to put the girls in our much smaller, hospital cage. I'm sure you're saying, "Why not just buy a new one?" well, these cages don't come cheap! The cheapest you can find online is $150. It's a good price, considering the cages last forever, but when you don't have the money to just blow on a cage - you're pretty much screwed.

That leads is to today. I saw a cage on Craigslist a couple days ago that looked fairly nice. It was white -- which I hated -- and even had a stand! She also lived close to me in Ellington, which is only about a 30-40 minutes drive. Unfortunately, I didn't see the price tag unit after I emailed her and noticed that she wanted $75 for it. You can find that exact cage on ebay for $70, so I knew that if I couldn't talk her down, I wasn't buying.

I sent her a message, which she replied to saying, "Yes, it's still available!" and before I could even ask about lowering the price, she said, "I'd also be interested in trading for dog grooming items, cat items or an iPad." I was kind of shocked to hear her say cat items, so I immediately thought of the cat trees we had in the garage. I cleaned them up, took photos of them and sent them to her. It took her a couple days to respond after that, but she said she loved them and would do the trade!

Time to shorten the story up a bit... we drove to her house -- which was in the middle of nowhere, down a county road, by a cemetery and down another gravel road -- and picked it up. She and her husband were super nice and even found a rope for us to tie the trunk down. The cage was WAY too big to fit in the backseat or the trunk, so fun!

It's sitting in the garage at the moment, waiting to be cleaned up and washed. We'll know more about it's condition when we give it a deep clean.

In other, less exciting new... the HDMI cord that I ordered finally arrived today! We bought one when we got our flat screen year before last and paid an unimaginable $20 for it. The past few months, it's started to short out. I found one on ebay for $1.50 the other night and couldn't pass that up. I'm SO pissed that we paid $20 for one when we could have got it for a fraction of that price. Hopefully this one lasts longer.

I suppose I'll end this with some adorable pictures of Lilah, the cutest sugar glider joey in the world!

Love & Peace

-Megan

Kitten blog...

I don't really have anything important to share today, so I'm just going to talk about kittens and share some of their adorable pictures.

We're down to just Bart and Luda - both of which we want to keep, but know we cant. Well, we might keep Bart. *wink, wink* Seriously though, they're getting so big and so cute. They've always been cute, but they're starting to look like actual cats now and now so much like aliens. I'm just getting so attached to them. Like I've said before, we're really thinking of keeping Bart, but we know we can't keep Luda. And her not having a home yet is really making it hard on us.

Anyway, enough blabbing for now, time for some pictures!

Love & Peace

-Megan

Movie of the day: The Avengers (yes, we watched it and it's awesome!)

Here are the pics:

Fallen bloom.

 Bart's butt and Luda.

Cute little Luda. Love all black kittens.

Nosy Bart.

Bart in the tree. Oh how I love yellow kittens sniffing leaves.

These pictures were taken last night:

Bart playing in the cat toy.

Notice how Zoe is sniffing him in the upper right corner?

Look at Zoe's smug face. She loves the cat toy, though.

Believe it or not, this cat toy/scratcher isn't new.

It was just in storage. Pretty neat for a big pink circle cat scratcher, lol.

 Bart winding down.

Ahh, sleepy time.

And he's out. :)

3 Years and 500 Blogs Later...

Well, the day is finally here. I knew this day had been coming for some time now. It's a day of achievement and self satisfaction. A day that I actually feel accomplished and worthy of things that once seemed out of reach. And.. um, well... not sure what else to say, lol. Ok, for those of you who haven't figured it out yet, this is my 500th blog! *insert balloons and jumping smilies here* I was planing on blogging about Dead Island, but I don't have anything together, so I figured I would do an update blog, like always, lol.

The past week has been kind of foggy. We had to go out of state for undisclosed reasons and didn't get back until like 3 this morning. That's all fine with me, I prefer night drives. It's so good to be home and see all of the animals. Everyone seems to be doing wonderful.

As we were doing pouch checks last night, I kind of felt of Kira's pouch a little bit and felt a little bump. I wasn't sure if it was just the way she was laying or if it was a joey. After I yelled for some assistance, I pulled Hans out and sure enough... Kira has TWO joeys IP!! How awesome is that!?! After we put her up, we got Sadie out to see how she was doing. And like always, she had both of her joeys laying out on her pouch to torture us. We did get to confirm that both of her joeys are little girls. And... one is a WFB!! I couldn't be more stoked about this. This will be our first WFB girl that's born here. Oh the temptations, lol.

I know there's more to talk about, but I'm completely blanking. LaVaughn and I have lots to sew anyway, so it's best I stop now. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Movie of the day: Gator Bait 2

Here are some pics from random days this past week:

Another cat tree that we got from Gene's dad.

As you can tell, Zoe approves of the new tree.

I just love catching pics like this. :)

Robbie during his bath.

Can't you see the excitement in his eye?

Sirius & Remus

Yes, they play with toys now.

And sit on our fingers. :)

Our new hummingbird feeder.

Our old one.

And now for some hummingbirds:

And Hans: