{"id":20887,"date":"2021-12-09T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=20887"},"modified":"2021-12-10T05:25:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:25:26","slug":"sweet-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2021\/12\/sweet-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My sweet boys!! Honestly!!! It is three weeks since Oscar joined Emmett and me and it is pretty incredible how well he has settled in to the Fambly Summers! A lot of credit goes to Emmett. Emmett persevered calmly through the initial hissing and spitting … respecting Oscar but never giving up trying to be friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am so very happy with how they are interacting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baby portrait!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That little face … looks so innocent and sweet, doesn’t it???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, mostly it is, but Oscar has his moments :) And I am glad for those also – he gets the “kitten crazies” and zooms around the house or plays with his toys (he only has a few … ) and HOLY COW … how does a 4.5 pound kitten make so much noise???<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know he is 4.5 pounds because we had our first vet visit on Tuesday. Oscar was pronounced a well adjusted kitten: a little shy as befitting his home, not crazy scared … in the middle of the kitten spectrum. Dr. Jim, whom I’ve known for 26 years!! came into the room and said: “Was this planned?” … which sent the tech and I into gales of laughter …. it was kind of like he asked if it was an unplanned pregnancy. Anyway, I got to tell Oscar’s story and Oscar got high marks for demeanor and health plus his first vac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another vac in a month and then the BIG OP in February and on we go. It was good. The first vet appointment with a new family member is always a bit emotional for me and it was helpful to start with a laugh. Kudos to Dr. Jim and all of the Bigfork Animal Hospital staff and techs. They are so very kind. And I was extra anxious as I had to take a 5:20 p.m. appointment which meant toing and froing in the dark. I do not drive at night very often and it is challenging for me, but obviously, I did it and all’s well that ends well and mostly, I am thrilled that Oscar had a good first visit with no ramifications from his shot or the car ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onward!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That first cat tree … history. I didn’t like how it looked. I didn’t like that it didn’t have staggered levels. Oscar never went beyond the first level and mostly ignored it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got the same tree that I had for Auggie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Everyone is happy!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For me, it is “nose to the grindstone” … next week is the last full work week of 2021. I will work a bit after, but not a lot so I want to get my task list in shape and hours in (hired gun programmer = paid by the hour!) so we all eat in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It helps to have helpers…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So much sweet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I can help ??!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like his brother before him, Oscar is a “programming kitten” :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we are a technical FAMBLY !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, my black Friday splurge was a Keurig coffee maker. And not just any Keurig coffee maker. As befits my I.T. professional status, I bought the new-ist Keurig: K-Supreme Plus Smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It connects to Wi-Fi and my phone and my Alexa. So, I have phone and voice control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I.E. I can start the darn thing from bed in the morning so as to have a cup of coffee waiting for me when I get to the kitchen. DREAM.COME.TRUE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The previous three images are screen shots from my phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am so happy!!! And it is 2 days and all is working well and I have a first cup of coffee to get me on my way with Emmett for our first out … AND an easy afternoon decaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is sweet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sweet stuff at my house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***re the recent AWS (Amazon Web Service) outage … which did affect Emmett’s GPS collar, but not my home Alexa stuff. This kind of thing happens. I am not concerned. All parties will review and consider\/implement redundancies. I stand by Internet reliant apps!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sweet boys!! Honestly!!! It is three weeks since Oscar joined Emmett and me and it is pretty incredible how well he has settled in to the Fambly Summers! A lot of credit goes to Emmett. Emmett persevered calmly through the initial hissing and spitting … respecting Oscar but never giving up trying to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20910,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions\/20910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}