Gah! Woke up from a nightmare. No fun ( Read more... )

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Let me address the points that some of you have been making privately. It's clear that I haven't had the time to paint a full picture. Suffice to say that this blog only reveals a thin slice of life ( Read more... )

Dinner with my folks went rather well. All the pets seemed excited to see them.

Honeybear wouldn't stop crying outside tonight, so we steeled ourselves to bring her in. She certainly didn't make it easy, despite her inability to use her legs. Cat Lady muzzled her, since she's still able to use her (large) jaws, and she made it clear she was not ( Read more... )

I'm working tomorrow, so Cat Lady and I are doing Thanksgiving today, instead. My parents are on their way up here. Frantic cooking and cleaning, and it's all coming together now ( Read more... )

The dog still hasn't come in; how long has it been? She's barely eating, drinking, moving, etc. Doesn't matter if it's pouring. Her hearing and vision have diminished. The little blanket we put on top of her to try to maintain some level of comfort barely moves ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much fully adjusted to my new contacts. The final few days of the sequence were essentially a non-event ( Read more... )

The dog still won't come in. We tried to pick her up to take her to a dog wash, but she started snapping. Large dog; large jaws. Gotta find her muzzle ( Read more... )

The dog has refused to come in for over two days, now. The harness works to pick up her rear legs, but now she's reluctant to use her front legs, too ( Read more... )

Fourth consecutive day exercising; yay. I had forgotten to turn the clock back last night, ended up waking up an extra hour early, and decided to just climb higher up the mountain with the extra time. I found a neat rock formation, maybe 20 feet across, that seemed like a small house from afar, with very sharp, rectangular lines, and a moss "roof ( Read more... )