{"id":1822,"date":"2009-02-08T20:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T01:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2009-02-08T20:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T01:35:38","slug":"petsitting-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/petsitting-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"PETSITTING: DAY ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>amy and jim left about 11 this morning, headed for miami, where it is WARM AND SUNNY.\u00a0 a perfect day to go there, because all day long it has been gray and cold.\u00a0 not COLD cold, like a few weeks ago, but yesterday the high reached about 68 and it was sunny and delightful and i took the dogs running and muddy water splashed up on my bare legs and it was all good.<\/p>\n<p>today, though, makes me wish i was in miami.<\/p>\n<p>instead, it&#8217;s a pet-sitting week ahead.\u00a0 things are very very calm and quiet at the moment.\u00a0 i&#8217;m sitting here in my bed and numie and noodle are sleeping next to me, numie buried under a flannel sheet.<\/p>\n<p>we went running earlier and they enjoyed themselves but it was too cold and gray and damp for me.<\/p>\n<p>i fed all the fish &#8211; before she left, amy showed me exactly WHERE in each fish tank i was supposed to put the fish food.\u00a0 and i couldn&#8217;t just drizzle it in there, i had to HURL it so it wouldn&#8217;t waft away and get caught up in some foliage.<\/p>\n<p>this time i&#8217;m supposed to feed the special needs fish TWO shelled peas instead of just one.\u00a0 does that mean that the last time i did it, i was starving the poor fish?\u00a0 amy also demonstrated the hand-feeding again, cupping the fish who was swimming around at the top of the tank, upside-down.<\/p>\n<p>i fed it the two peas, but when i was done i wasn&#8217;t entirely sure that it had actually eaten any of it.\u00a0 amy said i was supposed to keep cupping the fish after feeding it so it would actually swallow the pea instead of spitting it out.<\/p>\n<p>so then i gave it one more pea, figuring that after attempting six separate halves, surely it got something.<\/p>\n<p>only five more days of hand-fish-feeding.\u00a0 i&#8217;m sure i&#8217;ll be an expert by then.\u00a0 the fish will swim up to me and eat the pea right out of my hand.<\/p>\n<p>i petted one of the cats, and she was happy about that.\u00a0 i couldn&#8217;t find the other cat, ellie.\u00a0 i&#8217;m sure she was somewhere staying warm.<\/p>\n<p>and now, these two sleeping dogs&#8230;i&#8217;m getting kind of hungry and i think dinner might be a good idea.\u00a0 this means i&#8217;ll have to take the dogs home, because if i leave them in here by themselves, numie will pee and also possibly poop.\u00a0 i brought them over here a couple of hours ago and left the room for a couple of minutes&#8230;and when i got back, numie had peed and pooped.\u00a0 he keeps peeing on the edge of the big fancy comforter, and it&#8217;s a pain to keep washing it and it&#8217;s not holding up fantastically with all the washing.\u00a0 for some reason when numie comes over, peeing on the comforter is his number one priority.<\/p>\n<p>aside from that, things are good.<\/p>\n<p>ok then,<\/p>\n<p>sunday night grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>amy and jim left about 11 this morning, headed for miami, where it is WARM AND SUNNY.\u00a0 a perfect day to go there, because all day long it has been gray and cold.\u00a0 not COLD cold, like a few weeks ago, but yesterday the high reached about 68 and it was sunny and delightful and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-to","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}