We have been having all of these lovely bird pictures and I think that that cat wants us to realize what he would like to do with all of our birds.
YIKES!!
Morning, Chas. Got a lot of things cleaned out of my classroom today. And I took the time to go to the Meeting House to pray at lunch time. They have been having a special time of prayer this week as so much has happened in the last few weeks.
interesting historical event in the Tom Sawyer cave Peter shows. Sam Clemens had a signature. I’m sure it was exciting for literature/historical buffs.
That cat is probably the culprit who gave Miss Bosley fleas. We brought them in or else when Miss Bosley managed to sneak out for a few moments onto the carport she got them then. I give that cat Miss Bosley’s leftovers. It is a friendly cat but will nip at me if I don’t have food or hiss if I get too close with my camera (phone). It was yawning in this photo.
Yes, Chas. The owner and the woman who discovered it have been looking for 20 years. Part of the excitement is that this is Hannibal’s 200th anniversary and this winter is the 200th anniversary of the cave’s discovery.
I have a bunch more photos to send AJ–it has been a great week for butterflies, and I have some cute bird shots, too. But I suspect he already has enough of mine from the ones I sent a few weeks ago. 🙂 It was really cool to get some great butterfly shots, though, including some good flight ones. Butterflies in flight are amazingly difficult. Not only are they small, but they fly erratically, they fly quickly (shots are likely to blur–which can actually create some interesting effects) . . . and they’re usually flying among flowers and shrubbery, which can make it that much harder to focus on the insect than on the background.
I’m also making really good progress on the editing work. Two projects finished, one more than half finished, and I’ll be ready to start the new batch (a three-book set) next week.
NancyJill, I just saw your last post on Wednesday about what the vet said. I was curious because Fly’s last day sounds so much like Buffy’s two years ago. He seemed fine in the morning, but subdued when I got home from work. He was panting in distress by 8:00 pm so off to the vet ER. After a horrible night he left us about 6:00 am. So sudden and unexpected.
Imaging showed a mass around his spleen. The doctor said it was probably hemangiosarcoma, a cancer that starts in the blood vessels and typically affects the spleen, liver, or heart.
“Dogs with hemangiosarcoma rarely show clinical signs until the tumor has become very large and has metastasized. Typically, clinical signs are due to hypovolemia [loss of fluid volume in circulation] after the tumor ruptures, causing extensive bleeding. Owners of the affected dogs often discover that the dog has hemangiosarcoma only after the dog collapses.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemangiosarcoma).
In one sense we were glad he did not have a long lingering suffering illness, but we were so stunned and unprepared.
Frightening that things can happen that quickly. My last female dog Ellie died of Lymphoma, which is common among older female dogs, and the onset of that was fairly fast, she was diagnosed at a regular checkup and was gone in a couple months. 😦 She was almost 14 years old, a medium-sized, shaggy-mutt shelter dog, and had been one of the healthiest dogs I’ve ever had, although the two I have now have had good runs so far.
Cowboy’s doing more night pacing than usual the past couple nights, though, keeping me awake. He’s fine during the day, doesn’t exhibit any of those symptoms, but at night he goes back and forth from my bedroom to the living room. I let him out twice last night briefly in the backyard. We go for our walks in the evenings so the dogs are exercised before going to bed and the vet has me giving them Melatonin but this is apparently a fairly common trait for some older dogs who exhibit anxiety or restlessness/confusion at night. If it seems to be getting worse, I’ll have to call the vet and see if there’s something else he could prescribe for him. It’s keeping me and Tess awake throughout the night.
They’re filming “this is us” on our local beach just a few minutes away today, but I’m stuck in the house doing the Little Italy story. Everyone wants to go see “Jack”. 🙂
The things that go on here. Thirteen year old and a I went up on the roof to replace the chimney cap until we get a new one, in case it snows in the interim. Found a pair of eighteen’s underwear up there. What in the world? None of them go up there. I am the only one, until today when son went along. It was not up there a week ago or whenever I got the chimney cap. And it was not near the edge like somebody threw it. How do these things happen???? Do I even live in a real world?
Thank you so much Kevin. That would explain to me why our Vet suspected a heart involvement. I am so sorry you had to go through this as well. It is never a road we want to travel and I am so blessed to have had our girl in our lives for the past 10 years. She is so missed and I cry easily these days. ❤️
NOw some of you understand why I’ve never had a dog since I was thenyears old.
I didn’t want to get attached to another.
But things have changed. I could take one to a vet now. I couldn’t then.
The kind of weather we’ve been having the past few days, according to my clothing:
I started today with long pants, and socks and slippers on my feet. Although in short-sleeves, I put on a light sweater a little while after dressing.
After a while, the sweater came off.
A little while after that, the slippers came off.
Not long after that, the socks came off.
Then it was time to switch from long pants to capris.
Now I am back in long pants, socks and slippers. No sweater at this point, though. (Last night I needed one again.)
Daughter rode her bike to town to feed the rooster she signed into the fair. I told her to remember to take the food. I saw her leaving the feed shed. She forgot the food. Five miles. Oops. Good thing a lot of nice people live around here. I doubt the rooster will starve.
Oh that is Colorado weather Kizzie! Furnace came on this morning…opened windows this afternoon. Closed windows for a half hour because we received much prayed for glorious rain!! Now it is cold again and the furnace just kicked on. We call this “layering” weather…that is pretty much year round! 🙂
Chas I understand. I have lost a few dogs in my lifetime. I believe the pain of losing Babe and Fly has been the most difficult for me. I told Paul no more dogs….we have Lulah and she is enough for now….
Congratulations to the rooster and handler. Does the rooster survive this kind of contest?
Nancyjill, I know how you feel. It seems to get harder, losing pets, with time. I always thought it would get easier somehow, that you’d sort of ‘get used’ to it. But you don’t.
We’re back and forth in our weather, too. I ran the car heater the other day on the way home from work. Today I had the car A/C on when I had to make a dash to the credit union. T-shirts, sweatshirts, sandals, shoes and socks, back and forth. I think I’ll put my sweatshirt on about now, it’s also getting dark a lot earlier now. But I still have to go out and water. Light rain is possible this weekend, but probably not likely.
My morning started with having to go through the workplace discrimination & harassment training online that the state of California and our company require. It was advertised as a one-hour task but it went for two hours. Most of it was common sense, although I confess I stumbled a bit over the quiz on all the nuances among the LGBTQ+ categories.
Ze and hir?
~ “Ze and hir” is the most popular form of gender-free pronoun in the online genderqueer community, derived from the earlier “sie and hir,” which were considered too feminine/female-sounding since “sie” is German for “she” (among other things), and “hir” was a feminine pronoun in Middle English. ~
Who knew? I’m starting to fall behind, I’m afraid.
But Little Italy is filed and posted. Felt good to get that one done.
Looking forward to your butterfly photos, Cheryl. They are difficult to snap. I can’t get a good shot of the Gulf Fritillaries these days because the caterpillars have eaten off all the leaves on the passion flower vines so the butterflies are darting all over looking for a leaf on which to lay eggs. It’s rather sad. And these last caterpillars never get as big as the others earlier in the season, and then they make a chrysalis and have to overwinter in that form through the harsh winter. I am watching one caterpillar daily now so I might find out where it goes to transform into the chrysalis.
AJ saw my cat photo on Facebook and pulled it from there to put it on here (he warned me that he was stealing it, lol). It can be pretty difficult to catch a cat yawning in a photo, too. That cat hisses when I try to get a close up photo, but with its mouth wide open in a yawn, it could not hiss at me!
Oh, and when I say I have “heard” ze and zir, I don’t mean in real life. I’ve read about the insistence of use of those terms, but in everyday life I don’t encounter those particular issues.
Wandering Views 
THAT IS SCARY!
I’m glad I’m not a mouse.
Good morning everyone but Jo.
Good evening Jo.
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;-0 It can take a full minute to get the picture and name right vice “Anonumous”.
Chas
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We have been having all of these lovely bird pictures and I think that that cat wants us to realize what he would like to do with all of our birds.
YIKES!!
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Morning, Chas. Got a lot of things cleaned out of my classroom today. And I took the time to go to the Meeting House to pray at lunch time. They have been having a special time of prayer this week as so much has happened in the last few weeks.
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interesting historical event in the Tom Sawyer cave Peter shows. Sam Clemens had a signature. I’m sure it was exciting for literature/historical buffs.
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That cat is probably the culprit who gave Miss Bosley fleas. We brought them in or else when Miss Bosley managed to sneak out for a few moments onto the carport she got them then. I give that cat Miss Bosley’s leftovers. It is a friendly cat but will nip at me if I don’t have food or hiss if I get too close with my camera (phone). It was yawning in this photo.
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Janice, it has a collar, so it looks like it’s a pet and probably gets fed at home.
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Borax will kill fleas. Also chinaberry leaves. Just a bit of the obscure knowledge I have.
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Good thing eighteen came home. She was able to enter a giant rooster into the Fair with the help of twenty two.
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Yes, Chas. The owner and the woman who discovered it have been looking for 20 years. Part of the excitement is that this is Hannibal’s 200th anniversary and this winter is the 200th anniversary of the cave’s discovery.
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Oops! I almost forget to post this.
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I have a bunch more photos to send AJ–it has been a great week for butterflies, and I have some cute bird shots, too. But I suspect he already has enough of mine from the ones I sent a few weeks ago. 🙂 It was really cool to get some great butterfly shots, though, including some good flight ones. Butterflies in flight are amazingly difficult. Not only are they small, but they fly erratically, they fly quickly (shots are likely to blur–which can actually create some interesting effects) . . . and they’re usually flying among flowers and shrubbery, which can make it that much harder to focus on the insect than on the background.
I’m also making really good progress on the editing work. Two projects finished, one more than half finished, and I’ll be ready to start the new batch (a three-book set) next week.
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https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1177083608885952512
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DJ – They’re starting a band!
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So fun to watch thirteen year old figuring out insurance premiums in his math. Did not see that coming, ten years ago.
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NancyJill, I just saw your last post on Wednesday about what the vet said. I was curious because Fly’s last day sounds so much like Buffy’s two years ago. He seemed fine in the morning, but subdued when I got home from work. He was panting in distress by 8:00 pm so off to the vet ER. After a horrible night he left us about 6:00 am. So sudden and unexpected.
Imaging showed a mass around his spleen. The doctor said it was probably hemangiosarcoma, a cancer that starts in the blood vessels and typically affects the spleen, liver, or heart.
“Dogs with hemangiosarcoma rarely show clinical signs until the tumor has become very large and has metastasized. Typically, clinical signs are due to hypovolemia [loss of fluid volume in circulation] after the tumor ruptures, causing extensive bleeding. Owners of the affected dogs often discover that the dog has hemangiosarcoma only after the dog collapses.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemangiosarcoma).
In one sense we were glad he did not have a long lingering suffering illness, but we were so stunned and unprepared.
Praying for you…
❤
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Frightening that things can happen that quickly. My last female dog Ellie died of Lymphoma, which is common among older female dogs, and the onset of that was fairly fast, she was diagnosed at a regular checkup and was gone in a couple months. 😦 She was almost 14 years old, a medium-sized, shaggy-mutt shelter dog, and had been one of the healthiest dogs I’ve ever had, although the two I have now have had good runs so far.
Cowboy’s doing more night pacing than usual the past couple nights, though, keeping me awake. He’s fine during the day, doesn’t exhibit any of those symptoms, but at night he goes back and forth from my bedroom to the living room. I let him out twice last night briefly in the backyard. We go for our walks in the evenings so the dogs are exercised before going to bed and the vet has me giving them Melatonin but this is apparently a fairly common trait for some older dogs who exhibit anxiety or restlessness/confusion at night. If it seems to be getting worse, I’ll have to call the vet and see if there’s something else he could prescribe for him. It’s keeping me and Tess awake throughout the night.
They’re filming “this is us” on our local beach just a few minutes away today, but I’m stuck in the house doing the Little Italy story. Everyone wants to go see “Jack”. 🙂
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The things that go on here. Thirteen year old and a I went up on the roof to replace the chimney cap until we get a new one, in case it snows in the interim. Found a pair of eighteen’s underwear up there. What in the world? None of them go up there. I am the only one, until today when son went along. It was not up there a week ago or whenever I got the chimney cap. And it was not near the edge like somebody threw it. How do these things happen???? Do I even live in a real world?
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Thank you so much Kevin. That would explain to me why our Vet suspected a heart involvement. I am so sorry you had to go through this as well. It is never a road we want to travel and I am so blessed to have had our girl in our lives for the past 10 years. She is so missed and I cry easily these days. ❤️
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Michelle’s dog went very quickly, too, a few years ago.
Man, it’s sad enough when you see it coming, but to have it sprung on you so suddenly is so tough.
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NOw some of you understand why I’ve never had a dog since I was thenyears old.
I didn’t want to get attached to another.
But things have changed. I could take one to a vet now. I couldn’t then.
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No. I don’t feel that I missed something.
Chas
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The kind of weather we’ve been having the past few days, according to my clothing:
I started today with long pants, and socks and slippers on my feet. Although in short-sleeves, I put on a light sweater a little while after dressing.
After a while, the sweater came off.
A little while after that, the slippers came off.
Not long after that, the socks came off.
Then it was time to switch from long pants to capris.
Now I am back in long pants, socks and slippers. No sweater at this point, though. (Last night I needed one again.)
🙂
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Daughter rode her bike to town to feed the rooster she signed into the fair. I told her to remember to take the food. I saw her leaving the feed shed. She forgot the food. Five miles. Oops. Good thing a lot of nice people live around here. I doubt the rooster will starve.
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Oh that is Colorado weather Kizzie! Furnace came on this morning…opened windows this afternoon. Closed windows for a half hour because we received much prayed for glorious rain!! Now it is cold again and the furnace just kicked on. We call this “layering” weather…that is pretty much year round! 🙂
Chas I understand. I have lost a few dogs in my lifetime. I believe the pain of losing Babe and Fly has been the most difficult for me. I told Paul no more dogs….we have Lulah and she is enough for now….
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The rooster got first place. Daughter is happy. Rooster is maybe happy.
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Congratulations to the rooster and handler. Does the rooster survive this kind of contest?
Nancyjill, I know how you feel. It seems to get harder, losing pets, with time. I always thought it would get easier somehow, that you’d sort of ‘get used’ to it. But you don’t.
We’re back and forth in our weather, too. I ran the car heater the other day on the way home from work. Today I had the car A/C on when I had to make a dash to the credit union. T-shirts, sweatshirts, sandals, shoes and socks, back and forth. I think I’ll put my sweatshirt on about now, it’s also getting dark a lot earlier now. But I still have to go out and water. Light rain is possible this weekend, but probably not likely.
My morning started with having to go through the workplace discrimination & harassment training online that the state of California and our company require. It was advertised as a one-hour task but it went for two hours. Most of it was common sense, although I confess I stumbled a bit over the quiz on all the nuances among the LGBTQ+ categories.
Ze and hir?
~ “Ze and hir” is the most popular form of gender-free pronoun in the online genderqueer community, derived from the earlier “sie and hir,” which were considered too feminine/female-sounding since “sie” is German for “she” (among other things), and “hir” was a feminine pronoun in Middle English. ~
Who knew? I’m starting to fall behind, I’m afraid.
But Little Italy is filed and posted. Felt good to get that one done.
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Looking forward to your butterfly photos, Cheryl. They are difficult to snap. I can’t get a good shot of the Gulf Fritillaries these days because the caterpillars have eaten off all the leaves on the passion flower vines so the butterflies are darting all over looking for a leaf on which to lay eggs. It’s rather sad. And these last caterpillars never get as big as the others earlier in the season, and then they make a chrysalis and have to overwinter in that form through the harsh winter. I am watching one caterpillar daily now so I might find out where it goes to transform into the chrysalis.
AJ saw my cat photo on Facebook and pulled it from there to put it on here (he warned me that he was stealing it, lol). It can be pretty difficult to catch a cat yawning in a photo, too. That cat hisses when I try to get a close up photo, but with its mouth wide open in a yawn, it could not hiss at me!
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That was Janice (Anon).
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I have an old photo of Annie mid-yawn too, it always makes me laugh. I believe it’s been used here in the past.
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https://patch.com/new-jersey/bridgewater/dog-cat-stuck-roof-rescued-bound-brook-police-video
Cute pup! Could only see the cat’s rear end in the one photo. And they certainly ruined a good window screen.
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Dog, Cat Stuck On Roof Rescued By Bound Brook Police:
Video
It’s not only the 2-legged that need protecting but the furry 4-legged ones too. Bound Brook Police shared a video of a dog stuck on a roof.
By Alexis Tarrazi, Patch Staff
BOUND BROOK, NJ
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DJ, I’ve heard ze and maybe zir . . . but how is hir different from her?
The whole thing feels like watching a culture unravel.
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DJ, 9:33, they should have charged the cat.
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Oh, and when I say I have “heard” ze and zir, I don’t mean in real life. I’ve read about the insistence of use of those terms, but in everyday life I don’t encounter those particular issues.
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