I guess the stray's owner was happier to get her back than it seemed. She sent us a very nice thank-you note for taking such good care of her, and a copy of Zen for Cats.

It says something about my experiences with people the past couple of years that I was expecting something nasty as a follow-up. But maybe, sometimes, humans don't completely

The stray has a home! With people! Who came to get her this morning!

It didn't sound like a very good home, tbh, over the phone anyway. At least, if one of mine had been missing for over a week, I'd sound a lot happier to know she was all right. And I wouldn't wait until the next day to come and make sure it was her. And a microchip "isn't ( Read more... )

Last weekend, we picked up a stray cat. Yes, another one. We found her in a parking lot, where she climbed all over us for attention. We tried to toss it into the hands of Fate, by telling her that if she needed a home she should stay there and we'd be back in an hour or two. Fate tossed it right back, because when we returned an hour later she ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning, the vet checked out LittleGuy's incision and pronounced it healing well, as expected. The sutures are dissolving as they're supposed to, the fur's growing back properly, etc ( Read more... )

Someone who I previously counted as among the most important people in my life chose to throw away a 22-year friendship rather than finish a discussion ( Read more... )

LittleGuy's recovery proceeds. He hates the collar every bit as much as we expected, but he mostly expresses this by lying in a limp blob of resignation wherever we put him. Every once in a while, he tries to paw it off, or wanders around banging it into things (I think he's trying to scrape it off). And of course he tries to back out of it, ( Read more... )

Third gear put in an appearance on the way to the Y, if laggard and reluctant. So I still have a car, after a fashion, at least for the moment ( Read more... )

Not going to the Y today. Shoveling the driveway instead. It satisfies the cardio requirement, no question, but it's not exactly ergonomically correct for the knees and back.

My next house will not have a driveway facing into the wind across from a flat, open 20-acre field. I've said this before, but it bears saying again. I don't think we got ( Read more... )

Not really, sigh. But I knew last night that this was going to be a low-ambition day, and this morning did nothing but confirm it. I slept late, and got up not because I felt well-rested, but because I couldn't make myself sleep any more. No Y for me today, and probably not much else, either. I'm exhausted, my knee hurts, and I think I sprained ( Read more... )

I twanged my knee this weekend; nothing major, I just stood up, and apparently asked a percentage or two more of it than it had to give. No function impairment, just hurts like #*^@. Due to that and various other reasons that I'd rather not get into, it was not a high-energy morning. I told myself that I had to do the bare minimum of half an ( Read more... )