Catch up post - Life
I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, so it's time for a quick catch-up on some of the highlights...
- We went over to Seattle for the Smokin' in Seattle EGGfest. A whole day of hanging out with fellow eggers and sampling many fine dishes cooked on the Egg.
- While there, we went over to Ikea and bought a new set of dinner dishes. We've been looking for a while now to replaces the mish-mash of pieces we've accumulated over the years... We were in Ikea a couple of months back, and saw two sets we liked but couldn't decide between. This time we got it down to one set, and I started to walk away because changing stuff that's been a part of our daily life for two decades is a Big Deal for me sometimes. (Especially when some of that stuff was a wedding gift.) Brenda insisted we go ahead and cut to the chase and buy the set, and so we did. We'll save one piece in our keepsake cabinet, one set of bowls will go into the RV, and the rest is undecided yet.
- We also quietly celebrated our 22nd anniversary... I know I missed my annual post on the topic, but so it goes. We've never made a big deal out of it.
- While grilling steak for our anniversary dinner, Brenda decided I had to re-create a pose in a picture she took of me when I was grilling steak on our honeymoon... now I've got to dig the old one out of storage and see how close we got.
- Speaking of photography, I haven't been able to get out much and have been starting to feel the itch in the last week or so. I'm still hung up on processing and posting the June Faire photographs - but I'm sticking to my vow to process and post in the order they were taken.
And now... for the less good news...
Little Missy (one of our guinea pigs for you new folks) has been losing weight lately, and we've found a lump in her neck. Even with hand feeding, her weight is still less than optimal... and the vet feels that with her size (she's always been a very small pig) and weight loss she's a poor candidate for surgery. Caramel lost almost 250 grams in the weeks following surgery, and Missy only weighs 600 to start with... her chances for recovery are very, very slim. We just don't know what to do at this point. I don't know if I can take another loss so soon.