Do not tell me global warming is not real or “questionable”. I have now lived in San Jose for over 20 years and summers never used to be this hot. You’d get a few days in a row of really hot weather a few times each summer and that would be it. Now it…
Every year, we get June bugs. Lots of them. It’s gross, but they stay on their side of the screen and we stay on our side. For some reason, this year we have July/August bugs; and somehow, one got through to the wrong side of the screen. Crafty little fucker. Our orange tabby…
vs. Do you ever have those flashes about something bad happening just before it happens? Something that has never happened before, and yet, you can picture it happening – and then it is part of your reality? Kind of spooky, huh? Well, I’m petting our orange cat Murphy. Murphy is lying…
No, it’s not me. (Not totally true, anyone who has had chicken pox carries a version of the herpes virus which can reappear as shingles, and (possibly) Bells palsy – which I’ve had several times.) Anyhow … It’s our darling cat Leo. WTF, you might say; as indeed I did when the vet gave…
Leo has been so lonely since Ollie passed. He about broke my heart when we were playing with “THE TOY” and Leo kept stopping to look down the hall to see when Ollie would come play too. Sigh. So I started scouring the internet to try and find a little brother for Leo. I found…
It was time. He took a sudden and very bad down turn. We took him to United Veterinarian Emergency Service. They gave us time to say our goodbyes, we were allowed to be with him and he passed peacefully. Goodbye good friend.
When is it time to say goodbye to a friend? I keep wondering if I’m keeping our gray ball of fluff (and bones) Ollie around for my own comfort. Ollie has his good times and his bad times. He was doing really well. Then he stopped eating his canned special protein venison diet; so…
