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Summer with my Grandson
My grandson and I have been spending time at the Rock Run Greenway in Joliet this summer. Weston loves nature walks, and is very observant when we are there; he points out the sights to me. Yesterday we saw an otter swimming, two turtles sunning on a rock, a woodpecker drumming for grubs on a dead tree trunk, numerous schools of tiny bluegill, ( Read more... ) -
New Kindle!
Yaaayyy! I got a Kindle!
The first books to be downloaded tonight will be Darwin's "Origin of Species" and a book called "Killer Germs". After I get my discussion board posted, tonight will be a good night.
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Grrrrr . . .
This morning I went out to get into my car and discovered that someone had lobbed a concrete block through my rear window. The concrete was sitting under the steering wheel. There was damage to the car door, interior, and rear bumper ( Read more... ) -
Cocoa is Improving!!!!
I think she has begun to improve! I did some research and discovered that a cat, if it stops eating, will lose interest in food altogether. Cocoa's problem seems to be, not that her uveitis or the herpes killed her appetite, but that once her appetite went away, she lost interest in eating. I took her to the vet twice for fluids, and I have ( Read more... ) -
Good Thoughts for Cocoa
Poor little Cookie had to go to the vet AGAIN today. She's had so many problems since she was diagnosed with uveitis, almost two months ago now. The vet thinks that all the eyedrops she's getting have irritated her throat and stomach, because she's been eating very little, vomiting a bit, and was even a little dehydrated. He did blood tests ( ( Read more... ) -
Random Musings . . .
Anyone who reads this, hello! I've been on LiveJournal for a few years now, and have never done much with this journal, so perhaps now is the time to start. I've been a bit lonely ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye, my friend . . .
I work for a property management office. One of the elderly residents had become my friend, and would stop by and chat when she'd drop off her rent check. I even had dinner at her home one evening. She lived alone, as do I, and we enjoyed each other's company ( Read more... ) -
Sleepy Caturday photographs . . .
. . . because I finally overcame my laziness and downloaded my pictures from my camera into my new computer. Here are my furry children.
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Apology . . .
I take back every disparaging remark I made about MediaCom ( Read more... )
