Honestly, every couple of months I take everything out and then re-Tetris it. I have to actually see it. I try to keep things sorted by categories - bins and bags - but it end up jumbled anyway.
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I love this description so much.
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I’m glad you know what is going on now! My husband has FIRE syndrome, it’s the reaction he has when he eats onions.
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We have 4 milk crates in there, stacked two by two and we keep an inventory in whiteboard marker on top. The crates do reduce our capacity a bit, but even though I’m tall it would be very hard for me to get stuff out of the bottom without them.
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I live in Vermont and next summer I want to go camping in Canada. Is it hard to cross the border with a minivan full of camping gear? We go across at least once every year but usually not with car packed to the brim. I know the border situation is in flux right now, but in the past how has it been for this situation?
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I have not personally done the border crossing for camping, but I know a lot of people who do for medieval reenactment camping, and it’s very rare that anyone has problems despite the absolutely bonkers camping setups.
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How many slices of cake in one day is too many?
And should I have another? Hypothetically….
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More cake is what Marie Antoinette wants for you.
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Stomachache - 1. Unfortunately these empirical measurements are rarely useful in the future.
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I crossed into Canada last summer with the car packed with camping gear. The agen’ts biggest concern was if I had any weapons.
I also learned beforehand that there’s a lot of foods you’re not supposed to cross the border with, like meats, vegetables, fruit, etc. You can only bring cat food for example if you’re also bringing the cat that will eat it. Food items were the agent’s biggest concern when I crossed back into the US.
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Food was our issue. They made us unpack the entire truck to get the cooler and show them what we had. That sucked. (ETA this was like 8 years ago)
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Ok that’s good to know and something I was worried about. We’re usually tetrises pretty tightly and the cooler is obviously on the bottom. Will have to consider that in our plans.
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I keep wanting to be this person but I am not this person.
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Me neither buddy. Me neither.
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I’ve been on the fence about getting the iodine radiation treatment for Sadie’s thyroid. Of course I don’t want to have her gone for like 5 days but then I guess when she gets home I’m still not supposed to let her sit on me or sleep with me for a couple of weeks which will be almost impossible because that’s exactly what she wants. But… the medicine is apparently pretty harsh and her ears are getting scabs on them. 
I am able to do the medicine but she doesn’t want me to and always turns away and folds her ear down when I get close.
What would you do? I left a message for the vet today to see how to go about getting her prepared for it. It has to happen over an hour away so I hope my vet can do any pre-testing so it’s only one trip there because she hates the car and yells the entire time.
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Stuff like this is so hard. I’ve heard of people who have had cats do great after the iodine radiation. But I think there’s really no “right” answer. 
Just hugs. I wish it was easier to do the right thing for our lil monsters, but the way is seldom clear.
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The procedure itself seems to be pretty easy according to what I’ve read online, so that part seems good. It’s the isolation after the fact that concerns me the most, we’re pretty connected and she sleeps tucked up under my chin at night. We would both be sad if that can’t happen. If her poor ears weren’t bloody I probably wouldn’t be thinking about it, but I can’t let her live with that for the hopefully many more years I have her.
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Before my old cat passed due to other issues, I was looking into the iodine treatment. We had an oral med for her thyroid that she hated and it was harming our relationship because I had to chase her twice a day to put it on – she was starting to avoid me. I had basically decided to do it when she got her cancer diagnosis, and then it obviously went off the table.
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I did the radiation treatment with Lil Bug some years ago. She wasn’t speaking to me when she got home, and unfortunately experienced another injury around the same time (I always wondered if it was related to the procedure) and just wanted to hide in the closet for a few days so our separation wasn’t as difficult as it could have been. I felt it was well worth it to avoid the medication.
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So this is treatment with radioactive iodine - which takes a certain time to pass through her system and you should be isolated until then. And maybe treat her litter as radioactive waste? Seems she should stay at the vet’s office, at least for the first few days which will be the heaviest shedding. Depending on the isotope, the half-life for radiation, emission energy, and bio-half-life might vary.
You can also take a chernobyl approach and dose yourself with non-radioactive iodine to swamp out the radioactive stuff (you can ask the vet ir dr. Google)
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