Sunday Snippets 11.30.25
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This week in Sunday Snippets 11.30.25…
Kendra had Thanksgiving at her house this year. Kasi and her family were there, along with Kendra’s kids. I stayed home, per usual. They brought me leftovers from the Thanksgiving meal.
Kendra’s 51st birthday was on Friday. She and her friend were getting a pedicure and going shopping. Then she was going home to wrap Christmas presents.
Kendra ordered a heated cat house and brought it over to set up on the front porch for the stray kitties.
I talked to Tessa next door, one of the four neighbors who feed the strays, and they’ve taken some of them to be spayed. They also have heated cat houses on their big front porch. Smitty and Tessa have a basement, and some of the cats go down there when it’s cold.
I feed the outdoor kitties dry food once or twice a day. The guy on the other side feeds them canned food. And Smitty and Tessa, the neighbors I talk to most often, also feed them. So does the guy next door to them at the end of the street.
They said they’d trimmed down the number of stray cats around here. Then someone moved nearby with outdoor cats that they won’t get fixed, so we keep getting more and more of them.
Movie I Watched:
Mudbound
I watched Mudbound on Thanksgiving Day afternoon.
The Netflix movie Mudbound is a historical drama set in the post-WWII Mississippi Delta that follows the intersecting lives of two families. They are the white McAllans and the Black Jackson tenant farmers.
The story explores their struggles with a brutal social hierarchy and racism. An unlikely friendship develops between two returning war veterans, the white Jamie McAllan and the Black Ronsel Jackson.
They bond over their shared combat experiences. But their friendship clashes with the deeply ingrained prejudices of the Jim Crow South, leading to tragic consequences.
What I’m Watching Now:
I’m still watching the series, Absentia, on Netflix. The series has three seasons. It tells the story of a female FBI agent’s disappearance while hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers.
Six years later, the agent is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive and with no memory of the years that she was missing. She returns home to learn that her husband has remarried and the new wife is raising her son.
Soon she finds herself implicated in a new series of murders that keep her on the run from the police.
What I’m Reading:
I just began reading The Intruder by Freida McFadden on my Kindle. There was a deal to get Kindle Unlimited for 99 cents a month for three months on Black Friday. So I signed up.
The usual monthly charge is $11.99, so I will likely cancel it. Rhonda has it because she reads so many books.
Book Summary:
Who knows what the storm will blow in…
Casey’s cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she’s a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window.
She’s young. She’s alone. And she’s covered in blood.
The girl won’t explain where she came from, or loosen her grip on the knife in her right hand. When Casey makes a disturbing discovery in the middle of the night, things take a turn for the worse.
The girl has a dark secret. One she’ll kill to keep. And if Casey gets too close to the truth, she may not live to see the morning.
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Have you decorated for Christmas yet? If not, are you planning to? My three plastic bins of Christmas decor are inside. But the cold has my arthritis flaring up, so I haven’t gotten started yet. It seems worse this year. My fingers have arthritis at every joint.
Yesterday, Kasi came, brought lunch, and went out to the shed to get my tabletop tree. Rhonda and I got it arranged in a bucket because the bottom pot was missing from the bag to hold it up. So we had to improvise.
I hope you enjoyed catching up in Sunday Snippets here at Cozy Little House.
Happy birthday Kendra!
We have a feral cat problem here in my neighborhood, too. I have been taking care of Blanco for 3-1/2 years now. I give him dry and wet food and keep a heated cat hut and heated water bowl on my front porch. Now there’s a second kitty that comes around all the time, too. We named him LBK for Little Black Kitty. Both cats are terrified of us and run when we get within 10 ft of them. I’ve tried numerous times to trap Blanco over the years for our county’s TNR program, with no success. Now I have to try and trap LBK.
I’m done with Christmas decorating. I do less every year though I still wanted to make the house look festive and cheerful, especially since this is Tim’s first Christmas back home in 5 years. We just do a tabletop tree. Neither me nor Brian have the desire to take the time and effort to put up a full size tree anymore. (And take it all down!)
Sorry to hear about your pain flair up. I guess as we age most of us do have one type of pain or another. I have been living with most likely a frozen shoulder for most of the year and it was starting to get better. When the pain got worse I knew I had better get to physical therapy. I don’t know if I’ll be able to write out cards this year. I tried the liquid Apple cider vinegar and hate the taste. Good to know Elizabeth had luck with the pills. I should try them. I put a Christmas wreath on the front door and decorated the mailbox. That’s all I do outside any more but up until last year or so I cut and decorated outside with the greens from our yard. I have decorated in the family room and kitchen. I am anxious to see your cheery decorations this season. It’s nice that you are so good to the stray cats. Kendra is right on the ball already wrapping presents! The time until Christmas will slip away so quickly. Have a good week everyone!
When you get your heated cat house set up, please let us know if you like it. Let us know if the cats like it too.
Brenda,
Reading your posts is like chatting with a good friend! I appreciate you sense of humor and down to earth wisdom.
I wish you all the goodness in this season, Vicki
Weather and cold are hard on us for arthritis. However, we both take some apple cider vinegar pills each day and it helps. Recently I was aching all over and so decided to take a higher dose of apple cider vinegar…aches left. You might try it. You can just mix 1 t. per 8 oz of water and drink it…but I prefer taking the pills. Which are not overly expensive. So right now I am taking one pill that is 1200 mg in the AM and one that is about 200 mg at night. It also helps with digestion I am told. Wishing you the best in this fight against pain!!
We stopped getting a real tree quite awhile ago, it is much easier to use the tabletop fibreoptic one, the last time we had a real tree it almost fell over. It is snowing here today and it looks like more is headed this way later in the week. Can’t believe the year is almost over! Take care Brenda
I have a small outdoor cat house . It’s not heated . But the one outdoor cat goes in there. Its a Rubbermaid tote with a styrofoam cooler inside . I got some straw from a friend for bedding.
I’m not sure how much I’ll decorate for Christmas this year. My new windows should be here in 2-4 weeks. It will depend when they come .