I cooked penne pasta tonight,\u00a0while it was\u00a0cooking I sauteed some chopped fresh mushrooms in Pam spray with olive oil and also 4 scallions and some chopped fresh tomatoes from Danny’s garden.\u00a0 I also put pepper (I\u00a0use salt only AFTER it’s cooked so it doesn’t make the veggies watery)\u00a0and garlic powder like a teaspoon (I use a lot of garlic powder, I sprinkle it on everything, it helps keep your arteries open) and some basil and oregano also.\u00a0 Oh, also a squirt of lemon juice and a teaspoon of sugar since the tomatoes were very acidic.\u00a0 While the pasta was\u00a0draining, I put a teaspoon of olive oil and\u00a0a teaspoon of my fake butter Earth Balance\u00a0in with the mushrooms and threw in the penne, and let it all saute for about 3 more minutes as I mixed it around.\u00a0 It was really good.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
New Kitty was last seen in the east yard about 7pm when the other kitties were coming back inside as I stood at my bedroom’s sliding glass door hlding it open for them.\u00a0 He won’t let me catch him when he’s outside, he tiptoe runs about 10 feet ahead of me.\u00a0 I wish he’d come home.\u00a0 I napped on the couch for a couple of hours and thought when I woke up he’d be inside, but he wasn’t.\u00a0 I won’t put him out again, unless he starts using the emergency litter box.\u00a0 He didn’t want to go out this morning, he wanted to stay on the bed.<\/p>\n
Later\u00a0 New Kitty came back. He is just finding his place in the family. He was Danny’s mom’s cat, then she died\u00a0in 2005\u00a0then he was Danny’s cat til I got him so he is feeling maybe like an orphan not knowing where he belongs.\u00a0 Kind of like Danny might have felt growing up!\u00a0 He and his mom lived with different families and she would leave him for months at a time sometimes when she was working, this mostly before we met them.\u00a0 He was like 16 when we got them.\u00a0 Funny, he\u00a0grew up being the babysitter\/housekeeper’s kid and he left an estate worth over a million.\u00a0 His mom’s Little house in Hialeah sold for $274,000 in 2005.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to love this American life.<\/p>\n