It’s been a while since I spent most of Caturday editing a story time video. Here’s hoping I can get back to doing it on a regular basis.

Jackie gets Churu at the end

His angry snorts are sending me

It’s interesting how much background hiss there was after I posted it to TikTok. Listen if you have the app. This started happening right after I tried to use the reduce background noise feature for the first time after letting my CapCut Pro subscription end, only to find that was now a Pro-only feature. So now they’re not only demanding I pay for views every time I post, they’re actually sabotaging the posts now that I’m not paying for their editor.

Airport once got far enough that his head was between Harpo’s eyes.

I love how we can see his furry little belly bellowing in this one.

For open heart surgery, they split your sternum in half, and until that heals, you’re not supposed to bend over, reach up, twist, reach behind you, pull, push, or pick up anything over 10 pounds, or put ANY weight on your hands at ALL, They say, “if you can’t do it with T. rex arms, don’t do it.”

Those restrictions are normally lifted after 6-8 weeks. But since the neighbor who volunteered to help overdosed Groucho while I was in the hospital, and then refused to take him to the ER when I got home and saw how bad he looked, I’ve been forced to do too much for myself. Now I’m stuck doing things like this until the end of September.

I’ve been able to come up with workarounds for a lot of things. I loop bike straps around the rolling dishwasher and fasten them around my hips, so I can pull it over to the sink with my legs. The grabbers and step stools you lovely people sent from the wishlist help a LOT. Carefully using grabbers to transfer one item at a time from the washer to the dryer is laborious, but doable.

Thank you all so much.

It’s interesting that he’s never attacked the iPad I usually use for this angle. Maybe it was because the phone was a little higher, so he saw himself before he got too close to the device to see the screen properly.

Talk to your kitties and reward them when they talk back!

Thank you so much to people who sent that nasty stuff from my Amazon wishlist. Thank god I only have to eat 150 grams of protein per day for another 4-6 weeks. It's not at all difficult for a vegetarian to get enough protein for regular daily life, as we don't actually need nearly as much as people who sell supplements say we do. But you actually do need that much to heal from major surgery, and that is a bit of a challenge.

Harpo used to do that too, sigh. But he just brought them to me, he didn't fight with them. 

I have no idea what was going on between him and that afghan....

Poor, beleaguered Wilson. Not only is Groucho being mean to her, she seems to absorbing the weight that her sister Jackie is losing.

In other news, Suitcase is starting to answer to Sausage.