Hello. I am still alive :). I have just been super busy. It is fall, but today we are having temp of 80 F it hasn’t gotten there yet, so we shall see. My husband’s birthday was yesterday, I took him out to dinner and did a little shopping afterward. It is always hard to get him something because he always tells me he doesn’t need anything. But I’m glad I told him to let’s go to Ollie’s, and he saw a fall jacket he wanted so we got that for him, it fits him great, and is using it daily.
I don’t recall if I talked about Oreo, a sweet, very friendly cat. I just adore him. I must have because he showed up last November. I’ll post a picture of him.
This sweet boy is Oreo. I just love him. Last week on Tuesday he didn’t show up. He always shows up in the morning for breakfast. I got worried that he hadn’t been waiting on the deck to be fed with Lilo. Well, he never showed up, and to this day which is now a full week. No show from Oreo. My heart is broken. I am always looking for him. Mr. Oreo is super friendly, and I think maybe someone took him in. Which would make me happy knowing that. But I don’t know that. So naturally I worry about the coyotes out here. He usually steers clear of the yard in the evenings when I have seen coyotes walking through. I miss him so very much. Same with the boy, Sammy. I pray they are both happy wherever they are. Sammy was more feral, but Oreo, oh my goodness, he is such a loving cat. I would carry him, and kiss him. And I just really miss him. I feel like crying so I am going to move on from this topic. Say a prayer for them, I would appreciate it.
As far as my weight loss, it is doing okay. I say just okay because I haven’t exactly plateaued but the weight loss is a bit slower. On Saturday I weighed in at 202.8 lbs and didn’t lose much. I still have to write a post catching up with that. I’ll be doing that soon. I was hoping to get below 200 lbs by the end of the year, it may or may not happen. As the holidays roll in, I will feel the peer pressure of eating food that I don’t normally eat. I eat, but not a lot, but I don’t like offending anyone by not eating what they cook.
But hey, I am happy where I am, I want to lose at least another 50 lbs, and I think that will make me happy. Unfortunately, with weight loss comes extra skin that will not shrink. It does suck, but it is, what it is. Mainly on my arms, legs, and tummy. I think it is a blessing that I am down to the weight I am down to. I have to admit, that I have been lazy and have not been walking on the treadmill for the last few weeks. I’m not going to lie and say I am getting back on the treadmill this year, I may not, and I may. I don’t know, we’ll see. If I see myself gaining an extreme amount of weight, then yeah I will. For me, I count calories, my daily is 1440, but I try to keep it at 1100, sometimes I don’t, but most of the time I do.
I think that is about all for now. I’m feeling sad because of Oreo, so I am going to go and do something to make myself happy. Oh before I go, I don’t know if I told you all about Lilo. Lilo is a girl tortie, she has been around here for years, she showed up when we moved in, so I’m not sure if she had always been around here. It took a long time for her to realize, I was a friend and not someone out to her her. She noticed I would pick up Oreo, and I guess she figured out it was okay for me to pet her. So she lets me pet her all the time. She likes me to stay outside with her. But when it is time to come in for me, she swats at me, like saying stay here. It breaks my heart because I want to stay with her, but it’s getting late, and I need to go inside. She gives me love bites too. So sweet I tell you. I love her very much as well.
You probably wonder, why we don’t bring her inside. For one, I don’t know what she may have contracted out there, and I have two girls inside who have always been inside, and I don’t want them to catch anything from outside that can be bad for their health. The good thing is she sleeps on the deck furniture, and so does Oreo, but she still does, it is up off the deck and I think she feels safe. I have a heated house on the deck, but she has not gone into it. I think she may feel trapped, but there are two doorways for her to enter and exit, it’s big enough for her to feel comfortable, heck she and Oreo could probably be in it at the same time. I’m hoping she will eventually try it.
This is Lilo, and that is the cat house. It took me a while to find the photos. I am hoping she will check it out and not be frightened of it. It will be a blessing for her during the colder days. Especially snow time. I will have to be clearing out the snow so she can access it. Those are the times, I wish I could bring in my outside furbabies. Ok well, this time I am going. I hope you are all doing well. I’ll be back soon. Have a blessed day. And don’t forget!
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Luke 1:37 NKJV
Until next time
Emily
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