This Week (A furry adoption!)

The highlight of the week was Thursday, so I’m going to focus on that. We drove down to Ottawa late morning to visit with the younger daughter, which is always enjoyable. The three of us went to lunch at a place called The Green Door that has been around since 1988. It serves vegetarian, vegan and gluten free foods. It is a buffet style restaurant where you choose what you want, pay by weight and sit wherever you find a spot. I sampled a bit of this and that and the other, and let me just say, I couldn’t get over how delicious everything was. If you ever find yourself in Ottawa and are looking for wholesome and tasty food, this is the place to go!

After we filled our bellies and they were singing joyfully, we headed to PetSmart where one little furball went from this:

To this:

To this:

Introducing Obi, short for Obsidian. Isn’t she adorable? When my younger daughter mentioned earlier this year that she was planning to adopt a cat, I told her we would get the cat for her just like we’d done for her sister, which I wrote about here. Fair is fair. And that's what we did on Thursday.

The whole experience was wonderful. Every time I’m there to witness an animal get adopted from a shelter, my heart sings. I was telling my husband and daughter on Thursday that I’d readily do a job of accompanying people to adopt these animals in need of loving homes.

Obi settled right in, and she’s not only great with people and amazingly tolerant, she’s also, according to my daughter’s text messages yesterday, a big chatterbox. She will make a wonderful companion for my daughter.

The rest of the week pales in comparison to that day, so I will end this post here. Have a wonderful weekend!