Mummies and Butterflies...and the obligatory kitty update.
The trip to the public museum in Milwaukee on Monday was great fun. Sabe and I went to see the "Mummies of the World" exhibit.
There were all sorts of mummies...Human, dog, cat, natural, Egyptian, Peruvian, European, bog, desert, ice, and even creepy little baby mummies. Also lots of fun information on mummification and everything associated you could think of.
There was a fun surprise for us when we discovered that the museum had a butterfly garden. Basically a large room filled with plants and loads of butterflies. We of course had to check that out. It was amazing, the little critters were everywhere. There were several different species hanging from the plants like strange fruits, sitting on the walls, and fluttering through the air. Before you left the room you had to check to make sure none of the inhabitants were trying to hitch a ride out with you...
Sabe got me a beautiful necklace at the museum store that is actually made of the wing of a butterfly. No worries, the place that makes these raises the butterflies in a natural habitat and waits for them to expire of natural causes to harvest their wings for the jewelery :) I would never have gotten one otherwise.
We had dinner at a little Greek restaurant before heading home. It was not the best Greek food I have had, but it was good, solid cuisine. Also their Greek coffee was delicious.
Good news in the sick cat department...
Since going back on painkillers Callie's symptoms have once again abated. I was successful in the efforts of securing a fresh sample of the fluids in question for our vet to recheck a urinalysis at home...which meant a less stressed out cat than if we had to hospitalize. Now we wait for the results. We also have several new measures in place to get her to intake more fluids that seem to work. Mixing some extra water into her soft food at meals worked wonders.
Less fun news...the campaign I had proposed to run has flopped in it's infancy. There are no takers when I discussed it with our Tuesday people. It led instead to an uncomfortable situation that apparently made folks feel pressured...which was never the intention...and was followed up with hurt feelings. *sigh* The whole thing has now ended with me feeling crappy about the entire thing. There are still people from our weekend games that were interested and of course Sabe was very excited about the whole thing, but I have to take some time and see if I can regain my enthusiasm and stomach the idea. As we all know I tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to some situations. I was feeling pretty alienated by it all yesterday...
A disclaimer to our any of our crew that read the above...not criticizing, just needing to process...
There were all sorts of mummies...Human, dog, cat, natural, Egyptian, Peruvian, European, bog, desert, ice, and even creepy little baby mummies. Also lots of fun information on mummification and everything associated you could think of.
There was a fun surprise for us when we discovered that the museum had a butterfly garden. Basically a large room filled with plants and loads of butterflies. We of course had to check that out. It was amazing, the little critters were everywhere. There were several different species hanging from the plants like strange fruits, sitting on the walls, and fluttering through the air. Before you left the room you had to check to make sure none of the inhabitants were trying to hitch a ride out with you...
Sabe got me a beautiful necklace at the museum store that is actually made of the wing of a butterfly. No worries, the place that makes these raises the butterflies in a natural habitat and waits for them to expire of natural causes to harvest their wings for the jewelery :) I would never have gotten one otherwise.
We had dinner at a little Greek restaurant before heading home. It was not the best Greek food I have had, but it was good, solid cuisine. Also their Greek coffee was delicious.
Good news in the sick cat department...
Since going back on painkillers Callie's symptoms have once again abated. I was successful in the efforts of securing a fresh sample of the fluids in question for our vet to recheck a urinalysis at home...which meant a less stressed out cat than if we had to hospitalize. Now we wait for the results. We also have several new measures in place to get her to intake more fluids that seem to work. Mixing some extra water into her soft food at meals worked wonders.
Less fun news...the campaign I had proposed to run has flopped in it's infancy. There are no takers when I discussed it with our Tuesday people. It led instead to an uncomfortable situation that apparently made folks feel pressured...which was never the intention...and was followed up with hurt feelings. *sigh* The whole thing has now ended with me feeling crappy about the entire thing. There are still people from our weekend games that were interested and of course Sabe was very excited about the whole thing, but I have to take some time and see if I can regain my enthusiasm and stomach the idea. As we all know I tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to some situations. I was feeling pretty alienated by it all yesterday...
A disclaimer to our any of our crew that read the above...not criticizing, just needing to process...