I had Spirit cremated and today we are driving back to my parents’ house to bury him. My mother was adamant when he died that she didn’t want him buried here when I am going to be moving. He had to come back to where he lived from 1984 to 1997. I didn’t really care. [...]
While I was gone my cat Riley went on an adventure. I’m not sure where he went but the SO was all worried because he was in charge of pet sitting and he lost one of the pets. The morning after I came home Riley appeared like he’d been gone for a few hours instead [...]
I signed up for the Crafty Creative and Fit blog group as a motivator to get back to work on my fitness. (By the way, I’m using a Windows machine with explorer to check my email at the conference and I can’t see anything on the sidebar. Is that an explorer defect or did I [...]
Whenever I come to one of these conferences it clarifies for me what my real interests are in medicine. This week I’ve been to lectures in a few main areas – management, alternative medicine, and pain management. Yep, that sums it up for me. This morning I went to a lecture on what’s wrong with [...]
In between getting smart at conferences I concentrate on getting free stuff. Vets don’t get all the free samples like human doctors do. But we try to make up for it at conferences. One year I managed to get enough samples of bird food that I didn’t have to buy any food for Ozzie for [...]
I got to my hotel room last night at 9:30 pm in a time zone that is different than mine so I was tired. Traveling does that to me. I’m staying at a fancy-schmancy place. Got to love convention rates. I was envisioning collapsing in a heap on my bed in preparation for a good [...]
Before I go I’ll post the picture of the latest quilt I finished. This is made from a wedding dress. Here is a picture of the top that shows the center made from the bodice better.
I’m heading off to a conference today. I’ll be gone until next week in an attempt to get smarter. I like going to these things. I’ll have 4 days of not speaking to anyone that I don’t want to talk to. If a lecture is boring me I can go and find another one to [...]
I read a recipe for cake made with tomato soup in Mary Kay Andrew’s book Deep Dish. With ingredients that strange I just had to try it. Tomato Soup Chocolate Cake 1/2 cup butter 1 1/3 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 cups flour 1/2 cup cocoa 1 T baking powder 1 t baking soda 1/4 [...]
The SO has been wanting me to get a new bike. I don’t want to spend a lot of money on a fancy bike because I don’t like riding all that much. He thinks that I will like riding better if I have a good bike. We are at an impasse. Then I found this [...]
Today is a super happy day for me! It is the culmination of a lifetime of desire. I am officially sterilized! Ever since I heard as a kid that you could get surgically sterilized I’ve been fantasizing about it. When I was going to go on Jeopardy I was wondering what I would do with [...]
I’m forgettable in person. People are always mixing me up with other people. Those other people tend to not look anything like me and are occasionally male. It can be disheartening to work hard on an animal only to later have the owner insist that they only want to talk to the wonderful vet that [...]
I am not a morning person. That is actually a huge understatement. However the SO gets up at 5 AM. After he showers and shaves it is about 5:40 and then he talks to me. He must like to live dangerously. This morning he came out of the bathroom and said, “Morning sunshine.” Me: Oh, [...]
About two weeks ago the SO casually asked, “Do you have any extra quilts just laying around?” Please. The poor boy obviously hasn’t grasped all the implications of living with a quilter. I was able to pull several unquilted tops from a shelf without leaving the room. It turns out that his office is super [...]
Spirit died this morning. Last night he lost the use of his good back leg. He could still stand but in order to move he had to swing the leg from the hip. Anything that was affecting both hind legs in totally different ways was not going to have a good outcome. He hadn’t eaten [...]
Yesterday morning Spirit was in some sad shape. He wanted to go for a walk but he just couldn’t move his hind legs. He could move the bad leg forward but couldn’t put enough weight on it to be able to move the good leg. He was up to 36 hours without eating. I called [...]
This is a fast one. Vases. I don’t know how I ended up with so many vases. I don’t have hoards of people sending me flowers or anything. But I had a whole shelf in one cabinet full of vases. I think they were multiplying in there. I kept a large wide vase for bouquets, [...]
Would it be so wrong? Yes! Imagine the outrage if this video was made by a pagan looking for help on spells to work against a political party. The smugness of this man made me want to cry.
I went out to feed the horses today and Spirit wasn’t well. He didn’t turn to eat his grain. His heart rate was up so I immediately thought of a colic since he likes to do that. It seemed strange since they had been inside all night last night. I put a halter on him [...]
Snowball got groomed yesterday. If I didn’t work at a clinic with a groomer where they love her I don’t know what I’d do. I’m sure she’d be banned from any respectable grooming establishment. She was claimed at 11:30. She got a bath and was put in a cage to dry. She did not approve. [...]