Rudi and I decided to mosey out into the heat today for a local neighborhood’s Dog Days of Summer sale.<\/p>\n
We explored a few shops along U Street we hadn’t been in before and stopped at Love Caf\u00c3\u00a9 for discounted cupcakes (Rudi opted for hazlenut frosting on a chocolate cupcake, while I went for the adventurous lime frosting on vanilla).<\/p>\n
We turned down 14th Street to explore more parts of the sale. Rudi found a record shop hidden under some stairs. I visited a new vet that was just opening up and brought home some food samples and cat treats.<\/p>\n
We next stopped at the local gardening shop, where we bought some saucers to go under a couple pots we had as well as a larger pot for our tomatoes to go into.<\/p>\n
Finally, we ended up at a pet store (the kind that sells stuff for your pet as opposed to the kind that sells pets), where we picked up some new toys for the cats — soft balls for Della (who doesn’t appreciate them as much in the Burrow as she did in Connecticut where she liked to chase them down the stairs before bringing them back up to you to throw again), some nubby bouncy balls, and some plastic springs.<\/p>\n
The toys were met with delight by the cats. But after Rudi left to go do some shopping and my back was turned at the computer, Della descended from the top of the dresser, went digging in my bag, and surfaced with the cat treats. Apparently she felt that I was holding out on the good stuff!<\/p>\n
What could I do in the face of such undaunted ingenuity? I promptly parceled out the whole bag of treats amongst the three cats, who then tottered off to their own preferred spots to sleep off a delicious snack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rudi and I decided to mosey out into the heat today for a local neighborhood’s Dog Days of Summer sale. We explored a few shops along U Street we hadn’t been in before and stopped at Love Caf\u00c3\u00a9 for discounted cupcakes (Rudi opted for hazlenut frosting on a chocolate cupcake, while I went for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-dc-life"],"yoast_head":"\n