Last night, O'Reilly was making an odd noise in the kitchen, so I got up and opened the door, and he came out with a huge rat. I've known there were rats in there for a while - we've found a couple of dead ones first thing in the morning, seen a couple of glimpses of Definitely-Bigger-Than-A-Mouse at night - but it's the first time one of the cats ( Read more... )

No snow on the ground this morning, but given it was trying to snow (slushy ice falling with rain) last night at 3am, you get the drift. It's icy, guys. Fortunately, there was an ember left in the grate this morning, which made lighting the fire so much easier, and our stalwart local wood guy delivered this morning even though it's stinking cold, ( Read more... )

* O'Reilly is getting the lump on his neck removed tomorrow, day surgery, so hopefully should be affordable and we can still eat ( Read more... )

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...but today was pretty good. Yesterday was one of those days where everything seems to go wrong. Today, we were busy, but things went pretty well ( Read more... )

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O'Reilly caught another blue-tongue. And this time he injured it. We took it to the animal hospital. We don't know if he'll be able to be healed, or if he was broken too bad, and will have to be put to sleep ( Read more... )

yay! emma loaded up our pictures onto our ispserver with an ftp program!

( five's foto album )

Got more done on my review today. Up to just over three pages. I've started on her doctor and his arrogance, idiocy and basic ineptitude. We could be stuck on this topic for a while. :o ( Read more... )

Bit better today. Not much happened. One of the cats caught a frog and brought it inside. Then brought it back in again after we threw it out. So I put it in the bin. I think it's beyond even them to get to it now ( Read more... )