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Miz Poo is once again in need of a trip to the vet (heh – I almost typed “Dentist”). Over the weekend, she started squinting her right eye and it’s been leaking and crusty for the past few days. In addition, her lip has gotten all puffed up, this time on the left side. Before, it was always the right side that got puffy. We’re thinking it might be an allergy thing, but since we ARE talking about Miz Poo who’s just a big ol’ money pit, it’ll probably be some nasty, exotic disease that will require bags and bags of money.
We were talking about her last night, and I said “With everything that’s wrong with her, we’ll be lucky if she lives to be five years old!” Fred said “No, she’ll live to be twenty, and we’ll be spending $1,000 a month on her!”
It’s a good damn thing we love her so.
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We got a nice, beautiful, warm, sunny day yesterday, and so I took advantage and planted the rest of my gladiolus bulbs. Fred installed the hanging hooks so I could hang up the planters I’d planted the catnip in, and it looks pretty good. So good, in fact, that I think I’m going to buy a couple more of the hanging planters and plant flowers in them, maybe Petunias.
I love the Petunias, have I mentioned?
I also planted some Four O’Clocks seeds that Fred mom gave us last year, and the packet of primrose seeds that have been sitting in my desk drawer for as long as I can remember. When I opened the packet of primrose seeds, I was surprised to find how tiny they are. I planted them, but I’m not holding up much hope that they’ll fill the planter.
It’s too bad I’ve instituted the “I will never dig in the yard again!” rule, because we could have a kick-ass flower garden.
And speaking of gardens, Fred’s tomato plants must be liking the weather – I swear they’ve grown a foot in the last week.
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I think we’ve got a robin nesting in the tree. Yesterday, I heard a pissed-off sounding bird in the tree, along with the sounds of leaves slapping back and forth, and then a bluejay came hauling ass out of the tree, a robin hot on his ass. There’s a nest in the middle branches of the tree, and I looked up at it, but couldn’t tell whether there were eggs in the nest or not.
And we’re realized that we don’t only have a male cardinal who hangs out at the feeders – there’s a female as well. I hadn’t realized that female cardinals only have a splash of red rather than being red all over. We kept seeing a bird that looked like cardinal, but thought it couldn’t be because it was mostly tannish – like such. But the male cardinal was hanging out with her an awful lot, and after I saw them chasing each other around this morning, I did a bit of looking around online. What can I say? You think cardinal, you think of an all-red bird, am I right?
They’ve been hanging out in the tree this morning. Maybe they’re planning on nesting there themselves. That’d be cool.
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I’m proud to announce that I FINALLY got the master bathroom scrubbed down yesterday. I guess that means I have another month before it has to be done again. (Kidding!) (Not really…)
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I read
Sloppy Firsts on Saturday, and enjoyed it a great deal. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that once I found out there was a sequel, I jumped at the chance to accompany Fred to the bookstore and buy it. So far I’m enjoying it – and I recommend them both.]]>