“Is headache a symptom?” She asked, not quite believing what I was suggesting. After all, my 83 year old mother received her second Pfizer shot a month earlier. However, she’d had a bad headache unlike any she’d had before for four days, and she commented she’d been sleeping during the day too, much more than … Continue reading Breakthroughs in a Bad Way
So they announced the availability of vaccines for the over-65 set Tuesday... I was on it like white on rice. My mom (Granny to everyone) is 82 and damn I want her shot up like the baddie at the OK Corral. Everything you’ve heard about the LA County website is true... and then some. To … Continue reading Magic Mountain, my mom, and me…
So MaeMae wails to go outside at the back door on a regular basis, and the wind died down today so when she hopped on the blue chair, where we apply her harness and leash, well, okay, we’ll read outside a while. Abby and Beloved joined us; MaeMae started out on the wall then relocated … Continue reading Peeing to freedom…
MaeMae is essentially in her teenage years and she’s a PITA. Our crèche is looking a wee bit bald where she’s chewed the moss off the roof. Shooting her with water is becoming less effective. She also tries to torture/play with the hound, who, at almost 14, is mostly deaf, largely blind and gets confused … Continue reading Cat on a Thin Tight Leash
Training a cat to leash walk is not easy, the little bastards are not at all grateful and the constraints are problematic in other ways as well. Our front lawn resembles London after the blitz, courtesy of a damn gopher, who appears to be a friend of the hound. The gopher makes periodic appearances in … Continue reading The Bombed Out Lawn
I gotta say, attending a service in a church with a spectacular pipe organ and NO MUSIC is like being offered a frosting-less cupcake when there's a bowl of amazing looking icing sitting RIGHT THERE. Pleeeeeeeease may I have some? NO! Christ Church is a gorgeous old (1870) church - okay, gorgeous on the inside, … Continue reading Avoiding a Swim in the Chalice
Well, thanks to this clusterpluck of a year, most of our holiday happies are out the window, as they are for everyone. Our Thanksgiving was a special treat when Edison shut off the electricity to our neighborhood due to high winds and fire danger... ever hear 20,000 people drop the F-bomb simultaneously? Anyway, we survived, … Continue reading A COVID Holiday Celebration… on four wheels…
Twenty eight years ago I visited an old friend who was learning to read tarot cards; I reluctantly agreed, being a bit superstitious, and said I was having lunch with an amazing woman I liked a lot. She said it was the best reading she’d ever seen, and this was sure to be good. I … Continue reading My Very Best Day
So my cousins, aunt and I were driving in Sussex in 2014 and of course the English have roundabouts freakin' everywhere. Big ones, little ones, round and round you go. In Dorking (I love that name - DORKing) there's a roundabout with a statue of a 7' fowl in full plumage. Robert, at the wheel, … Continue reading Decorating Giant Silver Chickens
This thing...is not... a cat. We’re not totally sure of what she is, but she’s not really a cat. She looks like Dobby the House Elf had a love child with a possum. Frankly, this critter is UGHhhhh...LEEE. She was one of my sister’s recent foster kitties, and being that butt-ugly AND shy, her chances … Continue reading Dobby the House Elf Procreates
Examining Misadventures 