Rhea’s Laser Light Show

Thought I’d let my cat people readers know about a fun new cat toy that Rhea loves. With my long work hours and kind of crazy commute I’ve been having some issues with kitty lately – namely that she doesn’t want to let me sleep at night because I haven’t played with her all day. I was complaining to one of my friends at work and she asked her sister, who works at a company called Lucky Litter, to send me a couple of play-by-herself cat toys. The company specializes in self-cleaning litter, which I haven’t yet tried.

Anyway, Rhea absolutely loves this laser toy. What I like about it is that you don’t have to flash the wand all about but can set it on a shelf or a table, push the button, and it shoots a bouncing red light all over the place all on its own. So I can just set it up and go do my things and Rhea plays with it by herself.

The instrument the laser emanates from is the cute little white robot-looking thing at the bottom center of this picture.

Fun fun! Thank you, friend at Lucky Litter 🙂

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

I always like to use a photo of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations for my happy holiday post but I saw this one, of Hope Boykin in Mauro Bigonzetti’s Festa Barocca (photo by Steve Vaccariello), and decided it was bright and festive. Change is always good, right…

I can’t believe it but this was the first year I’ve missed Alvin Ailey’s City Center season in many years – as long as I can remember. The last few months were such a whirlwind for me though it doesn’t really seem like Christmas. It’s probably also the weather: it’s supposed to be 75 degrees in L.A. tomorrow- by far the warmest Christmas I’ve had since I left Phoenix two decades ago.

Anyway, happy holidays, everyone! And thank you so much for continuing to read my blog despite the sometimes rather huge gaps between posts due to my move 🙂

POOP FREEZE

 

This isn’t related to dance, but I saw it in my Daily Candy email today and couldn’t stop laughing. When your dog (or cat — because cats don’t always make it to the litter box, especially in an emergency) poops and it’s really runny, just spray this on and it will harden right away, making clean-up a lot easier.

Also, check out the Doody Dangler.