Musings on a Small Life

"...Painted ladies and a bottle of wine mama "Ooh ooh Feeling good mama..." I'm certainly old enough to remember that Ian Thomas song. :-) However, the "painted ladies" I'm referring to are the painted turtles (no idea of gender) I saw yesterday, while out of town visiting a friend. I took many more turtle pics, more than any person needs, but these were just a few. We saw adults and young, tiny ones; oodles of turtles! The pond we stopped at first was pretty scummy, though. Disgusting, actually. But a haven for geese, ducks, fish and even a heron. Maybe I'll post more pics another time; right now I'll leave it with just some of the turtles. I had to post; I've had that song's chorus stuck in my head since yesterday afternoon!  :-D Peace.

I see it's almost ten days since I posted; I didn't realize it was that long.  I now notice that when I want to add a photo from my Google Albums, it no longer shows me any past 2021. I have to go into Google Photos (i.e. not the nicely organized albums) to scroll to the pics I want. Hmm. Not impressed with Blogger at the moment. Anyway, it was a wonderful extra long, long holiday weekend from May 20 - 23 inclusive. I wish  EVERY week was three days of work and four of "weekend!" This weekend IS another four-day weekend for me, as I took yesterday (Friday the 27th) as a vacation day, and I'm taking Monday as well. I'll be out of town for most of the day on Monday visiting a friend--she's driving half an hour, I'm taking the train for half an hour, and we're meeting in the middle to catch up. I'm looking forward to it! Below: The ferns from the other side of the fence have been making themselves at home in my garden for the third spring and are ...

I'm thankful for this dear little one, my heart. ♥ I'm thankful the university is closed tomorrow, giving us an extra, extra long weekend. Monday is the Victoria Day holiday and since 2020 the administration has given us an extra day off. I presume all Ontario universities are doing the same; ours certainly wouldn't do it solo! I'm thankful for the blooms, now come and gone. Last week was quite warm, summer-like, and all the apple and cherry tree blossoms peaked. Most of their flowers are gone now, but they were glorious while they lasted. I'm thankful the dentist who replaced the filling in one of my lower molars this morning had a soft touch with the needle, because I needed three of them to completely freeze me. I'm still frozen, almost four hours later, but it's better than feeling any pain! I'm booked for a temporary crown on that tooth (it's cracked in several spots) on July 15, then for the permanent one on July 29. Ugh. However, I'm certa...

Of sorts.  😸

No, no more adoptions! LOL. I finally was able to get a so-so snapshot of the baby robins (three of them) in the nest tucked into the cedar shrub outside the front door. Not great, because of all the branches, but you still can see all three beaks. Or parts thereof. They're finally big enough to be seen, and Derry certainly enjoys watching the parents come and go in the early mornings, feeding them. (I put a stool in front of the screen door for him.) I wish Derry would eat more, but oh well. He likes the Royal Canin urinary + hydrolyzed protein dry, but is meh on the Hills z/d canned, even with the beef liver topper I add, or the FortiFlora. Well, he's almost 15 (about 76 in human years), and my own appetite might not be great when I'm that age either. As for other critters, I did luck out with a snapshot of a woodpecker earlier this week, while on my morning jaunt for a latté, and also managed to snap a pic of a rabbit, who froze in someone's driveway, while I fumbl...

  Comments are off. Have a great mid-week!

 

Four months later (on Monday May 2): I'm glad it's done, as the half-destroyed tree was was a danger, IMO, but what a sad "view" now. A far cry from "Escape to the Country."

First and foremost, Mr. Sunshine seems to be back to his usual self.     He quite likes the prescription RC urinary + hydrolyzed protein dry, and because I don't have any other options, I have chosen to ignore the ingredients. At least Hills z/d has real animal protein in it. Too bad they don't offer a hydrolyzed protein + urinary combo too. Anyway, the vet bill certainly was enough this past week, never mind the bag of RC dry (yikes!), but yesterday I had to buy a new fridge, and because my stove has been broken for a long time (the drawer and part of the plastic at the top), I decided I might as well get a new one at the same time. Double yike$. My current fridge (and stove) came new with the unit when I bought it 22 years ago, so it doesn't owe me anything. However, while it's still running (constantly), the freezer isn't keeping the food frozen and the fridge isn't cooling very much at all. I will lose most of the food in there, unfortunately. I wish I had b...