Elsie finally seems to be on the road to recovery now that we've restarted her on prednisone.

Unfortunately during this recovery time she now refuses to let me sleep. For viridis_ama's sake I've relocated to the couch but at some point during the night I end up sharing it with 50lbs of dog ( Read more... )

This morning Miss Elsabeth of the house Stubbylegs apparently got tired of hanging out with me at my laptop and trotted into the bedroom to be with the cats ( Read more... )

This evening we went to pick up Elsabeth from the vet.  The dental operation took long than expected; so instead of being able to collect the pooch after work we had to wait until this evening ( Read more... )

This morning we dropped Elsie off at the vet for her (first ever) tooth cleaning and potential molar extraction. My previous vet found that she may have split one of her back molars, though the current vet thinks it may have healed over ( Read more... )

Last night was a bit of a later night than I like to do during the work-week, as I offered to pick up my mother-in-law at the airport.  I had a chance meeting with atara as she was waiting for plonq's flight to arrive ( Read more... )

Well, since the cheapness is part of me, and that I just can't seem to let an idea (good or bad) go, I've been poking away at the Drobo idea s'more.

Thinking that such a device has to been a relatively popular idea, it dawned on me that someone else has probably already attempted to build their own version of it.

I found a journal that may be a ( Read more... )

Poll Add-a-cat

On Thursday I took Ms. Elsabeth in for her annual vet check-up ( Read more... )

One of yesterday's many events including a trip to the zoo; since the temperature had sprung up to about freezing it was a very pleasant visit and the critters were quite active.

A couple of our little friends that we saw included the barn owl sunning itself

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I haven't found a regular pattern to it yet, but many mornings I open the door to let the dog out only to find that someone else's dog has peed on my back step (which is actually halfway down the side of my house ( Read more... )