Kitten update

I have 3 kittens that our dogs trapped in the back yard. They were about 4-5 weeks old and I did not want them growing up to be another set of feral cats that run the back fences around here. We already have 3 of them that live in the neighbors yard.

So, two of them have tamed down very nicely, one is still very withdrawn. Yesterday I was petting the withdrawn one (white blaze on face) and the male with the white paw started rubbing on me asking to be petted and purring. First time any of them have come up and asked for attention.

The two of them should be ready for their new homes very soon. We may end up keeping the white blaze one - hard to adopt out a cat that doesn't want to be around people. He/she may just end up being our invisible cat.

We'll see how it turns out. I really don't want another cat - but accept my responsibility to this one.

Flakey skin

Ok, that small sunburn I got on the San Diego Trip?

Yeah, now my shoulders and arms are peeling like I don't know what. I wish it was like a snake shedding - then it would all just fall off at once.

As it is, it's just really flakey and yeuchy all down my arms. I have been wearing shirts with sleeves this week to avoid anyone seeing it.

This is the worst peeling I have done since the great all over sunburn debacle of my late 20's. That's a great story, but I don't think I will tell it right now.

If anyone really wants to hear it, let me know and I will write it down.

Water falling from the sky for free

I just posted about how danged hot it is and now it's raining.

My sissy bulldog won't go outside in the rain. She will hold it until it stops raining - just doesn't like it. I try and coax her by standing in the rain with her and she just looks at me like I am some nut standing in the rain. Which I guess I am.

I love water that just falls from the sky. I wish I lived somewhere it happened more frequently.

Too dammed hot, iced coffee, a butterfly and other stuff

It's 6 am and already 90 degrees outside.

I made a pot of coffee Tuesday morning and then forgot to drink any of it, so I poured it into a pitcher and put it in the frig.

mmmmmm, iced coffee without the ice.

The drawback to this is that it's very yummy with the new vanilla chai creamer and I just suck it down like a glass of milk. Then I fill it up again - whoa - now I spend the day way more buzzed than normal.

Not that I need coffee to have ADD issues. I say (ony half jokingly) that my ADD and OCD struggle constantly for control - oh look a butterfly....

That's the new term the kids started using on the San Diego trip to let me know that I changed the subject in the middle of a sentence again. They got a big kick out of it. I told a friend at work about the kids doing it and she's doing it now too.

It was funny for a while - ok it's still funny - but it has really made it clear to me that I need to be a little more focused once in a while.

With this much coffee buzzing around in my system, there's no telling what will come out of my mouth - or in what order.

Alone for a week

Arrrgh, my honey is out of town on business for the whole week. I get along ok by myself, but I miss her when she is gone. The dogs know that it's different - they have her whole side of the bed to use, but end up snugged right up next to me.



Took Daisy in for her surgery yesterday - saw the MRI report - I'm not sure what that lump at L5-S1 is but I sure hope they get it taken care of. She has to have another MR with contrast this time. Her husband is such a jerk.

Antsy about Patrick coming, a little more than 4 weeks and he will be here. I'm going to have to get these kittens homes sometime soon.

Ok, off to work today.....

San Diego and Sea World

What a great trip. Sea World Rocks. Disney world or Disneyland will never see me again. This is the place to be. This is the cool stuff.

My sister, her 3 girls, and I drove to San Diego for a trip to Sea World and hanging out at the ocean the week after July 4th.

We traded in our one day passes for two day passes using a special promotion they were having - I strongly recommend doing Sea World in two days.

We went to every exhibit - petted Bat Rays and dolphins. We rode the rides, got all wet. Went to the shows, sat in the soak zone and got wet.

Everything was more fun than I thought it was going to be.

We spent one day at the beach. We found a little rocky beach with inlets and tide pools. The girls played in the ocean - learning what waves are. The two little ones had never seen the ocean.

All in all, a wonderful vacation.

Another Bill update

Bill was transferred to a rehab up in Cheyenne a month or so ago and he has been making pretty good progress. I went up to visit him in Denver before he was transferred and that was a very hard visit.

He has always been the big strong man in my life and it was very hard to see him laid out and completely helpless.

Today is Bill's 58th birthday and also Bastille Day. I talked to him a couple of days ago and he is doing so much better.

He is walking with a walker, eating solid food and starting to feel like he really will recover.

It looks like it will be another 4 weeks that he will be at the rehab facility and then perhaps a few weeks at his brothers house before he goes home and is on his own.