Ice Cream and Timing Chains


Penny is on a soft food diet for the next few days. Since cold applied to her jaw is good for it we’ve both been forcing ourselves to eat a lot of ice cream. Sometimes you just have to close your nose and take your medicine. We are managing OK, but Penny says she is craving pizza.


Penny is doing all right. She is in some pain and she is sleeping a lot. She did manage to cook today for Karen and Tim (Portobello mushroom ravioli and King Ranch Chicken). Brie has been spending a lot of time sleeping with her. It’s gotten to the point where Brie will tell Penny (in her kitty way) that it is time to go back and take a nap. When Penny goes back Brie jumps up on the bed and curls up to sleep between her legs.


We’ve been putting mileage on our CRVs at a high rate. Penny’s 2002 has 60,000 and my 2004 has 50,000. Our other Hondas needed to have the timing belt replaced at 80,000 miles so I looked through the CRV manual to see what it needed and found no mention of the timing belt. I thought that was strange so I went to Google and did some research. To my pleasant surprise we don’t have belts. We have timing chains. That’s the way cars used to be made. The timing chains are good for the life of the car. So that is one major maintenance task I don’t have to worry about.

We have a kitty mystery going on today. For the past 2 days all 7 of the cats have been here. Today the only cat that I saw all day was Marmalade. She showed up at the 6 o’clock feeding time. It was strange to have no cats outside all day. We hope they are someplace safe. Maybe tomorrow we will see them again.