out of my mind?

On Sun, 14 May 2006 14:22:23 -0400, "W. Leong"
wrote:

I woke up to a strange sight too, that of my pot of aloe vera on the floor.
Couldn't blame it on Rusy as he slept, as usual, in his own room
with the door closed. The whole plant came out of the soil, with
soil debris all over the floor. The plant has been leaning to one side,
so it probably got too heavy and tobbled on the floor.
I swept up the debris and will have to replant it.

The flowers of the potted iris given to me on Wed. also dried up.
They only lasted a few day. This is the first time I got iris.
Oh well!

My sister used to have a pot of shamrocks in a windowsill above her
stove. One day, she got home to find the shattered remains of the pot
on the kitchen floor, about half of the shamrocks eaten, and muddy
kitten footprints all over her apartment. Apparently, her kitten
climbed up onto the flowerpot in order to munch the shamrocks, and
toppled the flowerpot off the windowsill onto the stove, and from
there onto the floor.

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Dan M wrote:
The flowers of the potted iris given to me on Wed. also dried up.
They only lasted a few day. This is the first time I got iris.
Oh well!

Winnie

Winnie, you'll probably want to keep an eye on the kitties around the
iris. Don't I recall reading somewhere that irises are deadly
poisonous to cats?

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html lists iris as toxic to
cats. The exception is the butterfly iris, according to
http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants-non-toxic.html

I'd be just as worried about the aloe vera, as a member of the lily family
it is also poisonous to cats.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart.
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"Adrian A" wrote in message
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Dan M wrote:
The flowers of the potted iris given to me on Wed. also dried up.
They only lasted a few day. This is the first time I got iris.
Oh well!

Winnie

Winnie, you'll probably want to keep an eye on the kitties around the
iris. Don't I recall reading somewhere that irises are deadly
poisonous to cats?

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html lists iris as toxic to
cats. The exception is the butterfly iris, according to
http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants-non-toxic.html

I'd be just as worried about the aloe vera, as a member of the lily family
it is also poisonous to cats.

OK. The aloe vera will join the iris in my bedroom where the door are
kept closed so Rusty can't go in.

Winnie

--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart.
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Monique Y. Mudama wrote:

I just woke up. It's 4:45am.

Why did I wake up? I remembered that my friend had insisted that I
take the bread we used for dinner at her house home with me, and I'd
left it in my motorcycle saddlebag (as I'd predicted, I forgot).

That's not the mind-losing part. When I walked out into the garage
(if I didn't do it now, I either wouldn't sleep trying to remember, or
would end up eventually with green goop in my saddlebag), I saw that
I'd left the motorcycle garage door open. Completely open. Everyone
could see our motorcycles, bicycles, skis, yard care stuff ...

My guess is that *this* is what woke you up. The mind works in some
rather interesting ways. Maybe your the memory of leaving the garage
door open got associated with leaving the bread in the saddlebag,
so when you woke up, you were obsessing about the bread, even though
that's not something you should lose sleep over. But leaving all your
stuff exposed to anyone walking by - that *would* be something to
lose sleep over. But that memory didn't come back, whereas the bread
memory did, albeit with an exaggerated sense of importance.

I'm not trying to psychoanalyze you - I really think the brain works
this way, biochemically. In any case, good thing your memory of the
bread got you out there to discover the real problem!

Joyce

On 2006-05-14, Isabelle Moreaux penned:


Hello Monique,

Just wondering... I'm not very a for garage door specialist, but
could there be some garage opener sets that automatically close the
garage door, say, after a few minutes (programmable time)?

It would help you if you ever forget again to close it.


You know, I honestly don't know. It's worth looking into if we do
ever replace the opener.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2006-05-14, CatNipped penned:

Well, one day I had a bright idea. I put the door controller in my
pocket, brought my bike outside, set the door on automatic, pushed
the button (inside the garage) to start the door closing, and then
tried running under the door before it closed. I did this *TWICE*
before I realized that the reason it kept reversing and opening was
the automated safety feature that won't let the door shut on a
person/animal/lawn mower!! I got aggravated and just left it
unlocked and went for my ride. I didn't realize until I got back
that I could have just used the controller that was still in my
pocket!!!

I've done stuff like this before ... just can't remember the specifics
right now. Hey, we're so bright, sometimes our brains are too busy
solving the complex issues of the day to worry about mundane things
like where we put the garage door opener.

At least, that's what I tell myself ...

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message


I just woke up. It's 4:45am.

Why did I wake up? I remembered that my friend had insisted that I
take the bread we used for dinner at her house home with me, and I'd
left it in my motorcycle saddlebag (as I'd predicted, I forgot).////

If it makes anyone feel any better about their memory, today I went to
an important meeting with my slippers on. I didn't even notice until I
walked into the meeting.

Thank God it wasn't an interview and I knew the people I was meeting
quite well!

::Sigh:: I'm just a little stressed at the moment. ;o)

Helen M


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On 2006-05-14, penned:

My guess is that *this* is what woke you up. The mind works in some
rather interesting ways. Maybe your the memory of leaving the garage
door open got associated with leaving the bread in the saddlebag, so
when you woke up, you were obsessing about the bread, even though
that's not something you should lose sleep over. But leaving all
your stuff exposed to anyone walking by - that *would* be something
to lose sleep over. But that memory didn't come back, whereas the
bread memory did, albeit with an exaggerated sense of importance.

I'm not trying to psychoanalyze you - I really think the brain works
this way, biochemically. In any case, good thing your memory of the
bread got you out there to discover the real problem!


Could be, could be! The mind works in mysterious ways, its wonders to
perform.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message
...
I've done stuff like this before ... just can't remember the specifics
right now. Hey, we're so bright, sometimes our brains are too busy
solving the complex issues of the day to worry about mundane things
like where we put the garage door opener.

At least, that's what I tell myself ...

I woke up in the middle of night last night and heard a loud crashing noise.
Got up and looked around. Checked on Rusty who slept in his carrier.
He was awake too and looked at me curiously as I hardly ever got up
in the middle of the night to check on him. I went throught every room
and nothing was amissed. I was sure the noise was not in my dream, and
assumed the noise was from one of my neighbours.

Winnie


--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2006-05-15, Helen Miles penned:

If it makes anyone feel any better about their memory, today I went to
an important meeting with my slippers on. I didn't even notice until I
walked into the meeting.

Oopsie!

::Sigh:: I'm just a little stressed at the moment. ;o)

Purrs for your stress.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca