Observations on Growing Older   ~It's harder to tell navy from black! ~Everything old is new again, but if you wore it before, you're too old to wear it the 2nd time around! ~Your kids are becoming you...  And you don't like them.....but your grandchildren are perfect! ~Yellow becomes the big color...walls...hair...teeth! ~Going out is good. Coming home is better! ~When people say you look "Great"...they add "for your age"! ~You forget names...but it's OK because other people forgot they even knew you. ~The last 2 outfits you wore had spots on them. ~You ask your husband/wife  or friend how your outfit looks and they tell you the truth! ~The five pounds you wanted to lose is now 15 and you have a better chance of losing your keys than the 15 pounds. ~Your husband/wife is counting on you to remember things you don't remember. ~The things you cared to do, you don't care to do, but you care that you don't care to do them anymore. ~Your husband/wife sleeps better on a lounge chair with the TV blaring then he/she does in bed. It's called his "pre-sleep" ~You used to say, "I hope my kids GET married.. Now, " I hope they STAY married!" ~The best place to have a conversation with your husband /wife is in the bathroom...you have his/her  full attention. ~Who wants to wear 3" heels anyway? ~You miss the days when everything worked with just an "ON" and "OFF" switch. ~You use more 4 letter words..."what?"..."when?" ??? ~You read 100 pages into a book before you realize you've read it. ~Notice everything they sell in stores is "sleeveless"? ~Many of the people in People Magazine you've never heard of. ~Your concealer doesn't conceal. ~Your lipstick bleeds. ~Your mascara clumps and your eyebrows are disappearing. ~You don't have hair under your arms and very little on your legs but your chin needs to be plucked daily! ~What used to be freckles are now liver spots. ~Everybody whispers. ~You have 3 sizes of clothes in your closet....2 of which you will never wear. ~~~~But old is good in some things:...old songs...old movies,                         And best of all, OLD FRIENDS!

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I am feeling approximately 9 years old this morning. And that explains the title.  YES!  This wasn’t my best of weeks, so I am tons and tons glad to be feeling this way again..which I usually do.  Everyone has their turn in the barrel and I felt as though I was on permanent spin cycle so consequently I was feeling sorry for myself.  :-)

Anyway, I have caught up on my sleep.  Miss Catt kindly facilitated that the past few nights when we went to bed by reposing in her usual place by my face, patting my face and seeing that I slept well.  She is here supervising as I type (she wants on to write her own blog and is encouraging me to get crackin’ here!) and I am annoying her with one of the toys you have seen at the desk in here, in my Computer Surroundings” pictures.  This time I am fluffing her up with one of the small feather wands.  She’s hunkered down, enduring being fluffed. 

The sunrise is fabulous looking BUT I am unsure how to take a proper picture.  I don’t want to flash to fire and I know how to do avoid that..and I can set the aperture easily enough, but it’s the exposure settings part that flumbuzzles me in these cases.  Auto is not an option. I would be better off right now waiting to accomplish this type of photo untill I either experiment and make notes, or read something.  I’m crazy about Victoria the Nikon, but she needs someone who knows better than I presently do, to know what they’re doing.  I think I am trying to say I am lazy about learning settings in the exposure  part of her world. 

You all who have been to that tiny album have seen this photo which I will post with the blog today.  It was not long after sunrise two mornings ago.  I was desperately (AGAIN!() trying to capture…in the burgeoning morning, the sun slanting thru the fog and trees.  I tried hard not to let the focus be solely on that large oak..and semi-succeeded.  However, while I was trying to capture the ethereal look of the fog and sun and dark tree trunks..a lot went missing.  I need someone next to me  for a space of time who can slap the side of my head and say “NO!  Try it this way”.  The son who is a great photographer has no time on the weekends..he lives in the big city and has commitments so I hate to ask him to be with me while I try to take more challenging photos.  He would if I asked but he has so little time.  I have asked for Sunday afternoon for a walking tour of the City with our cameras and he agreed.

Guess who is coming for dinner?  Who else..the oldest.  Been awhile.  I see chicken in his future.  Not sure yet what to do.  Should I do the grilled deal again?  The fragrance of that what with the spices, glowed in my home for hours and hours.  Heavenly though.  Or baked…OH!  I meant to recommend something.  I stopped at KFC for the first time in literal years (love the stuff but too fatty for me) and bought their newest grilled chicken.  I chose coleslaw and green beans to go with.  I want you to know that was absolutely delicious!  If you haven’t tried it..you should.

Here’s that picture.  I like it but..I want to do it right.  So far, at that light level..no luck.  meanwhile have a great one today.  I’ll join you in that.  After all, breakfasting on Carole dee’s cupcakes she baked got the morning off to my favorite start! 

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I’m cooling down before getting ready for the rest of the day.  I did not do as much on the treadmill..just wasn’t into it as much this morning. 

Question:  I have noticed increasingly on capital mur-der tri-als that the defense is allowed to cobble together anything in an effort to save the sorry hide of the accused.  Two of four accused have been convicted in the city very near to me, with 2 more to go to trial yet.  The defense lawyers in an effort to save these heinous kill-ers smeared the reputations of the poor young victims. Those were lies and the jury had none of it.   Today is the sentencing phase.  Death or life w/o parole.  The defense are allowed to bring a bakers dozen if they want to (I think it’s 10 people today) in a still yet further attempt to save this hideous now convicted killer from the ultimate sentence.  One of the things they are going to point out is so called mitigating circumstances.  Question:  If you had a hard life..if your mother or whomever was a so and so..if you do dr*gs, sell dr*gs, should your bad social and home upbringing be enough to get you off?  That is happening increasingly.  Is it setting a unthinkable precedent?  Do what you want, and claim you were from a bad home etc so as to get away with it?

Sorry for the dashes and stars in the blog.  That’s to help keep search engines from this one particularly for those words. 

The trial(s) I am speaking of were so heinous and mind numbingly horrific I can’t write of it here, nor could I watch the TV stations “helpful” live streaming of the entire gavel to gavel process.  People fainted in there and some had to be removed from the jury. That’s another question:  Why broadcast such horror?  How is it helping the public especially when the details are so graphically extreme?  I am not going out to do this thing..so it’s not stopping me or most..so what good is it? 

Bummer, I know.  Sorry.  One of those rare times I depart from my life and my surroundings. The way things go these days amazes me..and not in a positive way.  Done.  Sorry. 

Miss Morsel 2 1/2 wks. Now a happy almost 4 weeks of age. 

I had to go get my potassium tested this morning via a blood test and I requested that they see how my vitamin D is doing.  The vitamin D was my idea but it was necessary for the potassium levels to be done.  Enter poor Rambling On into the Lab area.  There is only one woman, an older lady who is absolutely painlessly perfect every and each time, no failures in my experience.  However she seems to be doing paper work, her choice, so we patients are left to the mercies of the very nice but not good at all at blood taking, girls.  I offered up my left arm..always sure to please though the right arm, while less used is equally accessible. So, here comes the tourniquet..for EVER and EVER before she declared she could not find a vein.  Yeah right.  Suddenly they disappear? 

I said that my arm was getting blue so could we make the plunge and by the way, she is not to search around under the skin looking for her fave vein.  So, she used a butterfly which is for infants!!!  1000 years later, a wee bit was trickled into the tube.  She finally took it out declaring not enough for both tests..just the potassium.

Enter Linda, the really great Phlebotomist. She stuck the other arm instead and the needle and came up with a veritable fountain pf blood.  Now, here I am with BOTH arms stuck; twin hematomas.  Wait, not fair to Linda.  Her stick will just barely be noticeable.  The girls in that lab, oh good grief!!! Purple bruise that will only get larger is my  portion for a week.

One of you mentioned that a baby should not have a collar on however precious looking.  I agree. I am going to ask my son to spin a true tale about how she could get her little feet hung up in it, it is so large, and if she's running eventually, it could hang up on something and choke that baby girl. That collar is waaaay too big, and her tiny neck can't be much larger under that fur, than your thumb.

You guys hear about the huge rock slide in Heywood County, N.C. at 0200 two mornings ago?  That shut down both sides of I-40 till January.  BAD news.  I am so grateful that I got there last week at least.  The workers have to go all the way to the top (no fun..high high high) and pry loose any other wet and loose boulders, tumble them down, then they can clean up.  The boulders are bolted into the mountain, there is screening bolted up too..but these were so huge they broke through.  I know exactly where it is..I always give a wary eye when I go by.  The truckers found it first..several people ran into the boulders.  No one was seriously injured which amazes me as some of the boulders are half -a- car sized.

Here is the three and a half week old darling of our hearts.  My son took these yesterday when he went for a visit to see how she is getting along.  Her new mommy named her Coco.  But she will be Morsel to me always.   It is easy to see how much this baby is loved.  As always, click on each one for more vivid color.

Here I can just hear her saying “I’m a BIG girl now!  See my girly girl collar?”

 

She is sound asleep on her new Charlotte mommy. And showing off that pretty feminine bow on her collar.

 

“Look into my eyes…you are growing more in love with my cuteness”.

I am awaiting word from my son in Charlotte all curious as to how little Morsel is in her new home.  I do understand from a phone call that she is still nursing from a bottle.  The sweet little one is only 3 1/2 weeks old now.  So, no surprise she is still nursing.  It was he who posted that  video for me from his home last week,.  If another gets posted, it will be him posting it again as he is the man on the scene. Hoping it will be sooner than later today.  I am bustin' to see her and how she is doing. 

Meanwhile my Queen here is absolutely luxurious in her Winter coat.  My goodness.  It's been growing in for Winter time like no ones business.  I brush her every day so she's glossy too.  Wish I was as pretty and luxuriant as she is.  But someone has to carry the standard around here...who else is more suited than she?  No one.

I am headed over to watch the football game with two of the three sons.  No way I will get another surprise like I did several weeks ago when the son from Charlotte knocked on my kitchen door.  (He had been offered to come along for a 1 day trip with a fellow teacher who was visiting her grandmother near by).  I had a 6 hr.  visit that was totally unexpected.

Stephen, if you happen to read this, I made a comment on your Blogspot blog but it is so fun to read your adventures when you were a cat.  I don't think that was too long ago, was it?

I bought 2 huge bags of snacks that men traditionally like (don't ask..I'd have to go look..I am not a chip etc fan) only to find there is a "cutting back" afoot.  So I am bringing my low fat popcorn as always and I think that's all the youngest is going to eat.  Who wants these huge bags of chips?  Come and git 'em.  While you're here you may as well stay for the game. 

I hope I don't sound ungracious about this..oh, I know I will.  Why did I even type that?  But here's the thing. 

Last weekend we went to a more upper scale consignment shop while I was in Charlotte and since I am a linen fan, I bought a piece of lace and linen table covering. When I went to pay for it, the woman at the register who apparently comes from another Country, gave me a compliment.  She went on for a good minute (that's a lot of words...think about it!) about how pretty my skin is, how my makeup complimented my coloring (I am as white as a jar of paste, trust me, and I have to have something or disappear). A simple "You look nice today" would have been more than sufficient.  To repeat how my makeup complimented my coloring and so on, while I am sure was well meant, was excruciatingly embarrassing to me there in front of others whom I didn't know..and would have been embarrassing whether there were any witnesses or not, frankly.  Just she rather bore down on it.  I know..I know...be grateful for the compliment but I went away feeling self conscious and wondering was she trying to tell me I looked like a train wreck and change my makeup for pity sakes. 

I had similar things happen in other stores.  Someone asked me what I used as it was so pretty.  Gees marie..leave me alone, please.  Does this happen to you all?  I mean the women of course.  Now I have told a stranger in a store what a pretty dress they have on if I am particularly struck by it, but I just say with a smile, "what a pretty outfit" and leave it at that.

Before you think it, no, I am not one of those who can't take compliments.  I certainly can.  Love 'em. But please...don't get personal when you don't know me.  Just say you like my hair, dress, outfit, smile, eyes, what EVER and drop it for pity sakes.  Don't go into my preparations for the day on makeup.  Maybe Loreal ought to hire me as a spokesperson for that is what I use.
Here, in this picture  below is how I feel when strangers do this (if you're a woman friend or man friend..bring it on..when it's just you and me) But this photo illustrates how I must look holding my purchases when store personnel comment my appearance.

 

LATE FOR WORK

Tom retired in his early 50's and started a second career. However, even though he loved his new  job, he just couldn't seem to get to work on time.  Every day, he was 5, 10, 15 minutes late. But he was a good worker and really sharp, so his boss  was in a quandary about how to deal with it.  Finally, one day, his  boss called him into the office for a talk. "Tom, I must tell you, I truly like your work ethic, you do a bang-up job, but being late for work nearly every day is quite annoying to me as well as your fellow workers."

Tom replied, "Yes, sir,  I know. I'm sorry, but I am working on it."

"That's what I like to  hear," his boss said. "However, the fact that you consistently come to work late does puzzle me, because I understand that you retired from the  United States Air Force, and they have some pretty rigid rules about  tardiness. Isn't that correct?"

"Yes. I did retire from  the Air Force, and I'm mighty proud of it!" said Tom.

"Well, what did they say  when you came in late?" asked his boss.

They said, 'Good  morning, General'."

A good friend sent that yesterday and it got a smile from me.  Thought I would share.

Here is a picture of a Mourning Dove.  Hope you will like her.

There was snow as I came back home over the mountains.  I was just so excited and in love with that tiny Morsel of a kitten that I forgot everything else in my anxiety to show you that small treasure.

The snow blew in over night as the weather man had stated it would, and by the time I got to the higher part of the trip..there was no trace of it on I-40 at all..not where I was driving.  But it was everywhere around me.  Not much though..like a layer of frosting on the higher elevations of the mountains.  Pretty.  Too bad there is no way to pull over safely and take pictures.  I used to take a few when I had my point and shoot which even so, required my eyes off the road for a few seconds as I set up.  But with Victoria, the mighty Nikon SLR, no way. She is too heavy, and she needs support where the heavy big lens I have attached to her connects onto the camera body.

We have had sun since Saturday!  Today is Tuesday so that is four days in a row!  Tomorrow is supposed to be the fifth and then..guess what?  Yup.  More rain.  We are over a foot above normal now.  The weather man said last Thursday that out of the 258, 268 days or however many days have elapsed since January 1st, that more than half of those days  elapsed have been raining.  He said the largest number of days in a row without rain have been 5.  And here we are about to do that again. 

I am going to put a picture of a bloom on a bush in my son's yard in Charlotte.  Can anyone tell me what this plant it?  It has a beautiful fragrance.  The bloom is about as wide as the palm of your outstretched hand. 

Come on over.  We might have something good to eat if you treat me right.As always click on it for true vivid color.

GEOGRAPHY FACTS
 
Alaska

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska .
 
Amazon
 
The Amazon rain forest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply.
 
The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.  The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States .
 
Antarctica
 
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Ninety percent of the world's ice covers Antarctica . This ice also represents seventy  percent of all the fresh water in the world. As strange as it sounds, however, Antarctica is essentially a desert. The average yearly total precipitation is about two inches Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it, ice.), Antarctica is the driest place on the planet, with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.
 
Brazil

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village .'
 
  Chicago

 Next to Warsaw , Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
 
Detroit

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.
 
Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey, is the only city in the world located on two continents.
 
Los Angeles

Los Angele's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula -- and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.
 
New York City
 
The term 'The Big Apple' was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930's who used the slang expression 'apple' for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time - The Big Apple.

There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin , Ireland ; more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy ; and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv, Israel .
 
Ohio

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio , everyone is manmade.

 
Pitcairn Island

The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia , at just 1.75 sq. miles/4,53 sq. km.
 
Rome

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome , Italy in 133 B.C.  There is a city called Rome on every continent.
 
Siberia

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.
 
S.M.O.M .

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican.  It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.
 
Sahara Desert

In the Sahara Desert , there is a town named Tidikelt , Algeria , which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years.
Technically though, the driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctic near Ross Island . There has been no rainfall there for two million years.
 
Spain

Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits.'
 
St. Paul , Minnesota

St. Paul, Minnesota , was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant who set up the first business there.
 
Roads
 
Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A : 1%, in Canada : 75%
 
Russia
 
The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia . It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries, one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen - so massive that the mud coming from the hole was “boiling” with it.

United States

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
 
 Waterfalls

The water of Angel Falls (the World's highest) in Venezuela drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls .
 

Here's a short video of the sweet baby kitty from the weekend.

 

Isn't she just precious??!!

I'm home and while we did not get to go to Va. to where I am from and photograph Fall foliage. we did have the experience of Little Morsel, the 2 1/2 week old kitten that was found at grandson's school under a portable building. He brought her home (it is a girl) after school. That certainly canceled any plans for the weekend as we were leaving immediately my teacher son hit the door.  I could see she was a baby.  I thought 4 weeks and I was mistaken.  She is 2 1/2 weeks and while a lively precious morsel, she had a hard time nursing from her bottle.  She didn't know how to handle that latex nipple so she would up chewing with those tiniest of tiny 1/32nd of an inch long wee fangs.  She managed to get herself half a bottle down into that small tummy right away and a full bottle during the night. Son had to get up in the night twice to give her her bottle at 2 and at 5 am. She was in his bathroom in a box, resting on a wee little kitten sized fleece bed I bought her when I had run out to get her a bottle and kitten milk. She had climbed out of that box during the night as it turned out, although the box was tall in height, during the night (never thought she could) and wee -wee'd on the floor thank goodness!  That meant the sweet thing had gotten nourishment, and that her plumbing was functioning.  At that barely born age, her other bodily function looks like a gel.  You'd never know she had had movement.  No solids of course as she was figuring out how to nurse from a bottle.  And I had bought a tiny little litter pan with sawdust looking litter and she didn't know what to do yet as the was too much a baby for instinct to kick in.

Son called someone with connections to an animal protection agency..don't remember what it is now..tired..and she recommended we take her the next morning to be i.d.'d as to age and so on.  No one there would take her though as she was nursing.  Dilemma because I was leaving..and Miss Catt would have her for a snack if I tried to bring her home (she was too tiny to travel) . By serendipity, a teacher (different school than my son's) happened to be there at the same time we all were, and  she was looking for a kitten.  She was willing to see that the kitten had her bottle the requisite every 3 hours even unto the night..take her to school on school days so she could be fed there during the day.  It was easy to see she adored Little Morsel.  Her mother happened to have been there too and she and my son exchanged names and phone numbers so my heartbroken grandson could visit. 

You may wonder why the baby had to find care.  The only reason was..the baby has to nurse every 3 hrs. When son and grandson leave, the last person on their home leaves at 6 am.  That would mean the baby kitten would be there shut up in a small room all day with no nourishment.  NO...absolutely NO way would we ever do a thing like that to a baby animal.  This woman and her mom coincidentally live near to my son..both will care for the baby kitten, besides taking her to school.  The grandson can visit Morsel any time he wants to.  He had his heart set on her and was caring for her diligently seeing that she had her bottle and keeping her warm in his arms.  He had to be brave and reluctantly so, for her sake.

That little baby was so lucky to be found by someone like my grandson who loved her so and who tried to take good care of her and was brave enough to let her go to a loving home also..where she could be taken care of 24 hrs a day while she needs it. 

I just hoped you'd love to know.  Here's the Morsel.

I am here in Charlotte,  Grandson came home with a 4 week old baby kitten that had been abandoned at his high school.  So, we are trying to take care of her until we can get someone to foster her till she can be weaned.  She will go to a safe place I hope tomorrow and be assessed. Then, maybe she can come here to stay.  Meanwhile, I ran out and got a baby kitten bottle and kitten milk, a tiny bed, and a box.  She has been trying to nurse.  I have pics but it's too late to mess with it.  We're all going to bed.

I'll try for Va. another time and there IS going to be snow in the mountains! for me to try to get home Sunday in to medicate MY cat,

See ya later

Here's the problem with riding Mopeds!!!!!!! 


An elderly man on a Moped, looking about 100  years old, pulls up next to a doctor at a street light.

The  old man looks over at the sleek shiny car and asks, 'What kind of car ya got there, sonny?'

The doctor replies, 'A Ferrari GTO. It  cost half a million dollars !'
'That's a lot of money,' says  the old man. 'Why does it cost so much?'

'Because this car  can do up to 320 miles an hour!' states the doctor proudly.

The Moped driver asks, 'Mind if I take a look inside?'

'No problem,' replies the doctor.

So the old man pokes  his head in the window and looks around.


Then, sitting  back on his Moped, the old man says,'That's a pretty nice car , all  right... But I'll stick with my Moped!'

Just then the  light changes, so the doctor decides to show the old man just  what his car can do. He floors it, and within 30 seconds the speedometer reads 160 mph.

Suddenly, he notices a dot in his  rear view mirror. It seems to be getting closer!

He slows  down to see what it could be and suddenly...WHOOOOSSSHHH!
Something whips by him going much faster!

'What on earth  could be going faster than my Ferrari?' the doctor asks himself.

He presses harder on the accelerator and takes the Ferrari up to  250 mph.

Then, up ahead of him, he sees that it's the old man on  the Moped!

Amazed that the Moped could pass his Ferrari, he gives it more gas and passes the Moped at 275 mph.
He's feeling  pretty good until he looks in his mirror and sees the old man gaining on  him AGAIN!

Astounded by the speed of this old guy, he floors  the gas pedal and takes the Ferrari all the way up to 320  mph.

Not ten seconds later, he sees the Moped bearing  down on him again !

The Ferrari is flat out, and there's  nothing he can do !

Suddenly, the Moped plows into the back of  his Ferrari, demolishing the rear end.

The doctor stops and  jumps out and, unbelievably,the old man is still alive.

He runs up to the banged-up old guy and says, 'I'm a  doctor.... Is there anything I can do for you?'

The old man  whispers, 'Unhook my suspenders from your side view mirror.'

Aaron was pretty good and I hope he lasts..Chuck Lidell is pitiful.  GO!  Natalie..slow and average looking. She's alright.

 Mark has the possibility but he is still too fast in movement.  Donny..that was GOOD!  The Charleston was good to the celebrities tonight.

 Louie Vito..just go, please. Melissa Hart..not too bad. Kelly..she can do well when it suits her.

 Mya, arrogant and demanding. She doesn’t deserve what they give her.  Johanna is a far better dancer. Johanna..the best of them all. Just my thought.

I really haven't said anything about the show this season as they don't have anyone on there worth talking about this time. Hope they get over having so many "celebs".  Fourteen of them is ridiculous and a waste of their time and ours as they get  too many old ones who just can't make it. It's not "entertainment" to me. (guess that just got pretty obvious!) The original number of celebs they had was fine.

Rain again..and as always, all week long.  We will be a good foot of rain over normal before Christmas.  That will be easy as it's ten inches over now.

I slept well last night but I could not persuade my fur nurse to get in there with me. She declined to join me.

I am trying to get her meds.  I have to go thru this every time where I order them, in person at a visit and they act like they are going to order them.  A week later I call..they are never there and we have to have them overnighted.  Now, she can't do without her meds.  I hesitate to complain to her Vet as I don't want to ruin a great relationship with him or "the girls" out front.  Asking for the script to order on line would probably cause a bump in the road too as for an example, every time I have been there Miss Catt has had her nails cut ( 11 dollars) and she had a mat shaved off her tummy.  Not sure of the cost for that but I have never been charged but one time for her nails, and never for a mat.  Of course now that she allows me to brush her again, we should not have the problem, but..she had to have several shaved off while she was in her "don't touch me!" mode. So, I am enduring the inconvenience trying to get her meds to maintain the relationship.

I am getting ready to go out..maybe there will be someone to swoon off his feet.  Think?

Nurse Sweetie Pie.