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A lovely summer day
Jul. 12th, 2007 10:58 pmAbout 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!!! )
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!
( I'm going to Dragon*Con!!! )
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!
