15 July, 2007
Simon Sunday: Working on Simon's Garden
Day Eighty-Eight: Working on Simon's Garden
Originally uploaded by Planet Vicster.
Simon loves to help me tend to his pot of cat grass, mostly by snarfing it down the second I lift the wire protective cover off of the pot to water the grass. (The wire "protective cover" stays on because of his habit of eating the entire pot of grass, then horking it back up--usually after I've left for work so that I come home to several knots of grassy green puke all over the apartment.)
So it was with a great deal of dismay that I had to bring in my pots of herbs from the front landing this weekend. We tenants at my apartments got this letter from management saying that we can't have *anything* on the landing, and it matters not that the pots are placed well out of the way of any escape path in the event of a fire or earthquake. Unfortunately, basil, chives and rosemary tend to want a good deal of sunlight, but I can't keep them in my front window because Simon will eat them (I tried putting them on a table by the window, just to see...and he was nibbling on the chives within 30 minutes). I've done the research and know that neither basil, chives nor rosemary are poisonous to cats, but still, I don't want him eating all of my herbs! So until I re-arrange my kitchen--AGAIN--I've relocated the pots to the highest points in my living room where Simon cannot get to them. Unfortunately, not much sunlight can get to them, either.
In addition to the hassle of relocating my herbs, I'm getting more irritated that they're regulating these apartments to the point where the complex is starting to look as though there are no PEOPLE living here. This is only the second home Simon has ever known (well, third if we count the warehouse he and his littermates were rescued from) but I'm not sure how much longer we'll be able to stay here.
Labels: cats, furkids, Simon, Simon Sunday
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