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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | | 11:33 pm |
Pic of the day
Great blue heron in the evening light.  Doesn't he look like he's bowing? "Madam, may I have this dance?" | | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 8:35 pm |
Normalcy is sneaking in
I am declaring Tashi officially over her medical crisis. May no more rise to take its place. May her follow-up appointment next month give her the clean bill of health. I'm SO DONE with cat crises! In a nutshell, she's eating well, drinking well, not comatose all day. She's purring, meowing, pooping, etc. While there may be some mopping up of her condition yet, I think she's well on the road to being herself again. Thanks for all your good thoughts! | | 7:31 pm |
This morning
While I was hand-feeding freshly cooked chicken to my cat who insists that she's too sickly to eat normal cat food, there was a scratch-scratch-scratching at my screen door. The feral yearling tomcat, Tig, likes to scratch at the mesh, so I figured it was him. Me, yelling over my shoulder: Tig, knock it off! Scratch scratch scratch scratch!Me: Dammit, Tig, stop it! Tig: *appears beside me* Oh hai! Me: What?! You're in my house! You scratched a hole in the screen door! Tig: Oh, was I a bad cat? Me: Aargh! Out! Tig: *wanders out through the new cat-sized hole in the screen door* So, now I no longer have just a peeping tom, but I have a breaking-and-entering tom. That's what I get for having his little feral balls removed, I guess. On the agenda: fix the screen door. *sigh* | | Saturday, June 20th, 2009 | | 1:35 pm |
I took one of the kittens to her new home this morning. The other was, I thought, supposed to stay here for another week. It's gone, though, so hopefully the right people came and got it. That would be the neighbor's son. Of course, Momcat may have moved it. She's acting depressed though, and I feel completely evil. Poor thing. | | Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 8:35 pm |
It's a brand new world
So, Tashi only had to stay at the Feline Hyperthyroid Clinic overnight, as she excreted isotopes like a good kitty. I always let her ride outside her carrier while in the car, because something about the motion of the car makes her need the litter box literally every ten minutes. However, this morning, I wasn't expecting to pick her up so soon and had only thrown the tiny kitten litter box into the car on the off chance that the clinic called me. They did. I picked her up and bought some clumping cat litter (required for proper waste removal) from the receptionist. The problem was, she neither recognized the small litter box nor the clumping litter for what they were. She was rushing around, squirming, holding her kitty legs frantically while and I blasted for home, hoping like hell that I wouldn't have to clean up a mess from the upholstery. Because if there's one thing worse than cat pee in the car, it's radioactive cat pee in the car. | | Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | | 10:47 pm |
Super congratulations, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) polyhex!!! Welcome, Babyhex! | | 12:13 pm |
Moving the appointment up
Radioactive kitty on Thursday, exactly one week after diagnosis. In other news, she loves the Furminator. Normally, she hates brushes, so I'm surprised. It's a good tool for pulling out the loose hairs from the itchy undercoat. For Tashi, this winds up being a pile of the softest, prettiest amber/peach-colored down. Oh, to have hair this color, especially along with her brilliant green eyes! Cats really win genetically when it comes to coloring. | | Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | | 9:49 pm |
Deadfall and deadfall cleanup pics
Here's some pics showing both the deadfall and the cleanup. The first pics are taken toward the north of the house, where I haven't worked yet. This is the worst-hit area, completely trashed by the windstorms after the logging. There used to be a complete canopy coverage in the forest, but not since the spectacular ice storm several years ago. ( Deadfall )( Clean up ) | | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 10:46 pm |
| | Sunday, June 7th, 2009 | | 10:18 pm |
Home Depot staff drives me nuts sometimes
Today, Me: Excuse me, where are the small bags of cement? Man associate: *makes incredulous eyes* Oh, no, no. Small bags of cement weigh 60 lbs. Me: *wonders why he answered a completely different question* Yeah, the small bags. Man: But they weigh 60 lbs! Eventually, a female associate rescued me by staring at him like he had horns and then answering my question. Yeesh. I always seem to get people going off in the wrong direction when I ask for anything there. Seriously, I asked for caulk not too long ago and was told I clearly had done my project wrong, or I wouldn't need caulk. Argh! Just. Need. The. Caulk. Thank. You. | | Friday, June 5th, 2009 | | 10:32 pm |
| | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | | 10:23 pm |
Hiking logs
I'm very overdue in writing up my hiking logs, so will probably just blow them off. In a nutshell, I went down to the Columbia Gorge about four weeks ago and hiked Mt. Hamilton with dianyla, in an attempt to avoid the snow and other foul weather. We avoided the snow, but got rained and hailed on like a sunvabitch. Two weeks ago, Francie and I went over to Exit 80 (heading toward Roslyn) off of I-90. She'd chosen some other hikes closer to Seattle, but I pointed out that they were pretty much at the top of the pass, which is snow-covered until July. We still ended up tromping through the snow, but also had some warmer weather a slightly lower elevations. Last weekend, Francie and I did Granite Mountain, where there was snow-covered granite. We didn't go quite as far as the lookout, but had tons of fun glissading on the snow. I'm still sore. It didn't seem like a killer hike, but my muscles protest days later.  ( Whee! A few more pics. ) | | Sunday, May 31st, 2009 | | 12:07 pm |
On good neighbors!
A woman across the way gave me $50, which I'm sure she could ill afford, to help with the cat project. She absolutely refused to take $30 of it back. So very awesome! | | Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | | 9:54 pm |
Recuperation
Kitteh has been quietly sleeping in her rabbit hutch all afternoon. I think I'll try to keep her for another full day and night, but we'll see how restless she is tomorrow when I get home from work. Hopefully, she'll just sleep and heal. I am so completely dead tired. Getting up at dawn does not jive well with the rest of my life. It's early to bed tonight, after being completely brain dead for the last five hours. ETA: Aaah! I just jumped out of my skin. I looked up at my big bay window and the little tomcat I'd had neutered the other day was somehow perched on the tiny outer ledge, pressed right up against the window, staring at me. That's a first. Peeping tom, indeed. I closed the curtains quite firmly. I wonder if he smelled his sister inside or was just curious. | | 9:15 am |
Feral Cat project--success yet again!
It was painful getting up at 5:30 am, but I managed and eventually coaxed the pretty gray kitty into the trap. She's at the clinic and therefore I am over halfway done with the adults! (I'm not completely convinced any kittens have survived, but I wouldn't be too surprised to start seeing them pop out of the woodwork in a week or two.) Anyway, this one is the last I'm going to keep with intact ears, even though I doubt we'll find a permanent home for her. I probably should have had her tipped, but she's so gorgeous that I couldn't bear it. Ah well. She'll be fixed, even if it isn't visually obvious. And tattooed, in case she gets trapped by someone else. So yes, I'm working at home today so I can pick her up later. | | Monday, May 25th, 2009 | | 6:00 am |
Feral cat project--success again!
Cat#2 is in the trap! ...that was easy. I trapped the senior tom, who is causing all the trouble around here. (Spraying.) I decided not to trap the girls for another week, just in case they have kits. I've had to fight everyone off to keep them away from the cage. Damn. One cat in the trap, three cats and one raccoon in a standoff because TUNA!!!! I'm glad this is going easier than expected. Cat#1 looks like he's fully recovered. | | Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | | 8:04 am |
| | Monday, May 18th, 2009 | | 7:32 pm |
Ok, wow
The American idiot who swam across the lake to visit Aung San Suu Kyi illegally, instigating her arrest and insta-trial did it because... The New York Times reported Yettaw, described as an adventurer, twice swam to Suu Kyi's compound, where he allegedly delivered a Bible to her although she is a Buddhist.I really hope that's not the whole story, or the true story. Arrested for being a prostylization target? *rage* (Other news sources report he was "working on a paper about forgiveness." The mind boggles at the irony.) Yes, she undoubtedly would have been arrested anyway for some trumped up charge, but damn. ETA: Reading more news reports, it seems he saw himself more as an "intrepid reporter of human rights abuses," instead of a missionary. And a superhero of some type, apparently. Or Indiana Jones. *sigh* | | Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | | 10:29 pm |
| | Monday, May 4th, 2009 | | 4:32 pm |
In lieu of content...
What's even funnier than misreading print is thinking you've misread print before realizing it's an unfortunate typo. I ran across a comment on a news story concerning an unfortunate side-effect of being a small child. The word intended was "defecation." The word used was "deification." "[I want to know] how many times you dropped your trousers for deification in the proper place."I'm torn between waiting for an answer with perked ears and grabbing for the brain bleach. |
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