Walking Whimsy by the river bank this evening, spotted at least fifty geese, all congregating near partially iced sand bars. It was weird and beautiful, but I tried to explain that it was February tomorrow and they're supposed to migrate. Geese, however, have little interest in explanations.
The winter has either been so mild that the geese are ( Read more... )

Walking Whimsy down by the river this evening, we stopped at the sound of "Jingle Bells" being loudly and enthusiastically sung somewhere nearby. We stopped in the dead grass and leaves and remains of snow, even though my ears were burning from the cold, until we found out where the singing was coming from:
A wagon full of happy, singing people, ( Read more... )

The glamourous nature of my job:

Going through several hundred files on a USB stick and opening one to find a series of photos of a naked woman, post some kind of major weight loss surgery. Elephant Man level wrinkles and horrible flappy stretchy skin bags.

My job, ladies and gentlemen.

As part of the integration of Whimsy into our home (our being, of course, mine and the cats) we have slowly lead up to Whimsy having increasing free reign to find new things she shouldn't eat. Part of this has been allowing Whimsy to run around the kitchen-dining room-living room-hallway-bathroom without being restrained when I'm home (and also ( Read more... )

There is either a giant wasp nest or a dessicated mummy head impaled on a very high tree branch in my back yard.

WHO WANTS TO PARTY WITH PROJECTILES?
Unrelated (OR IS IT) I have discovered that everything is about ten times better when you can incorporate something called a "death blow". It does not matter what the something is, because you know ( Read more... )

A brief list detailing things which are not, in fact, puppy food, puppy treats, dog food, dog treats, or any other sort of thing which should be found inside a dog's mouth and/or stomach despite what certain canines might try to convince you of:
- pillows ( Read more... )

My mum had the first part of her surgery to deal with her colon cancer - an ileostomy which is not a colonostomy but apparently people kept referring to it as a colonostomy because 'everyone knows what that is' and also describing an ileostomy and explaining what it is gets gross while you don't have to go into gross details about a colonostomy, I ( Read more... )

Grandma died around 6:00 AM on Friday.

She hadn't been conscious since Sunday.

When he called Mum to tell her, Dad was crying.

Grandma had stomach cancer, which spread very quickly to her colon and liver. She chose pain management instead of treatment.

I'd like to think that she was at peace, accepting that it was her time.
God, please grant her the ( Read more... )

The good: my puppy finally came home yesterday. I've named her Whimsy. She's a cream coloured lab/husky mix with heterochromia and is, if not deaf, at least extremely hard of hearing, only picking up noises in the very high range. She's three, almost four, months old. She has floppy, lopsided ears but I do not have any pictures to share yet because ( Read more... )

One of the recent bright spots in my chaotic and stressful life: I met my next dog and put in an adoption application for her.
The local humane society will only adopt out animals which have been altered, which my dog was not. So I got to play the waiting game, the hoping her lazy and negligent former owners don't change their minds or finally think ( Read more... )