A lovely summer day

[fenchurch]

About 20 degrees cooler than yesterday, yay! It literally felt like an oven outside yesterday... even though it was only about 97 (and I can hear my Arizona friends laughing now), that's just not a temperature we see around here very often. Today, I barely had to run the air conditioning.

I'm going to Dragon*Con!!!

Okay, so I'd planned on it already and I'd purchased my D*C membership a few weeks ago, as well as tickets to the James Marsters concert that same weekend... but yesterday I bought my airplane ticket! I'll be flying into Louisville, so I can visit nmissi for a few days before and after the convention... and, weirdly, it was much cheaper to fly in there than to fly into Altanta, even though I have layovers in Atlanta both directions. And better still, the reason I bought my tickets yesterday was the weekly TravelZoo Top 20 newsletter arrived, mentioning an airfare sale over at Orbitz... it ended up costing about $100 less than when I was checking the same route just a week ago! rosiewook has already graciously agreed to let me crash at her place during the convention, so all that's left is to reserve a rental car! And it seems like practically everyone is going to Dragon*Con this year, so I'm hoping to meet up with a bunch of people during the con. Squee!!!

In Numfar news... on Monday we took her back in to our regular vet to get the first booster on her vaccinations. Our vet seemed to be of the opinion that the vet who'd worked on her at the Humane Society was very clearly on crack, although of course he didn't put it in those exact terms. She's got some nasty scar tissue from the spaying... he checked up on it again during this visit and thinks that it should clear up a bit more eventually and that it's not herniated (which was his main worry). Oh, yeah, and I finally remembered to ask him how old he thought she was... and learned that several of our assumptions (based on the Humane Society's info sheet) were completely wrong and my guess of her age upon seeing her for the first time was actually pretty good. Yes, ladies and gents, we have ourselves a kitten! Our vet checked her teeth and said that she's only about four months old... *maybe* as much as five months old (since she still doesn't have all of her adult teeth). Counting back, that means the people who brought her to the Humane Society got her when she was eight weeks old... so they had to know exactly how old she was when they brought her in and apparently felt they needed to make stuff up.

And finally, if anyone is interested, the coconut husk garden mulch I was talking about yesterday is The Original Mulch Block, which is possibly the most boring and UNoriginal name they could have come up with. However, I'm absolutely loving this stuff... and I'm also inordinately pleased with myself for managing to take the whole project slowly. I worked on it again today and spread another three blocks of the stuff on the flower bed and then stopped. Yeah, it doesn't seem like that should be an issue, but I usually have a problem working on things in stages... once I start on something, I really do like to just work on it straight through until it's done, however long that takes and however much it wears me out. So, I've ended up with the slightly odd situation of feeling like I've really accomplished something when I manage to make myself not finish a project. :-p And the flower bed isn't looking half-bad, either!

Comments

[deborahw37.livejournal.com]

Numfar#1 was the opposite. When we got her we thought she was hardly old enough to have left her mother,let alone to have been ill treated and abused in the way she had been . However when we took her to the vets she said that she was in fact about 4-6 months old but so malnourished that she was the size and weight of a 2-3 month old kitten .


I'm glad that your Numfar is doing so well :)

Also glad that it's cooler for you

and YAY for Dragon Con

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

Hooray for DragonCon! And even though you're going to be transitioning through Atlanta both times before you come to Atlanta, it turned out for the best so you could visit Missi.

I'm looking forward to having you as my guest!

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Yeah... although if I'd flown into Atlanta, I would have driven up to visit Missi after the convention then driven back to fly home. However, it really is working out better this way, all around... because it's also going to be cheaper to rent a car in Louisville than in Atlanta!

[jerusha]

Heh. Well, at least she's a sweet kitten. Poor kitty.

[typographer.livejournal.com]

*envies your coming concert experience*

I hope you have a FABulous time at the con!