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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Really??
If you've read my musings at all, you know that we have 2 precious senior pups. Like us, they have come to have their frailties.
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While one has kidney disease, the other has something going on with her liver. They both have spinal issues just like their mom. Plus, one is as deaf as a brick and cannot see very well. The other has trouble seeing and her hearing isn't too great either. One pesters me constantly for food. The other is on very expensive prescription diet food mixed in with smoked chicken and rice and many a time shakes her head and walks away.
Her new thing is to only eat from my hand. Believe me, I know I am the problem.
It would be a huge understatement to say we love them dearly.
This past weekend was perfect until 3 p.m. Sunday.
Younger dog started walking hunched, wobbly legs, wouldn't eat or drink and threw up. Of course! Sunday before a holiday!
She just wanted to be held. So we did. Left an urgent message for our "other family doctor" and did a lot of holding and praying that they were open on Veteran's Day.
Thank goodness they were. There was both good and bad news.
Thanks to whatever food and meds I have been able to get into her-kidneys and phosphorus levels are better. But she had some kind of infection and inflammation in her spine.
Three hours and $300 later we picked her up. Older dog was sniffing, licking and wagging her tail when her sister came in.
We got her to eat and drink a bit-including meds. All of us slept as well as we could expect. Woke up and found a puddle of puke.
Thankfully, she went out on her own power, no wobbling and the pain hunch is much better.
Praying for a quiet day, no puking, meds ingested and food/drink enjoyed-as well as kept down.
With that, I hope everyone had a good Veteran's Day. Endless gratitude to all who have served and are serving.
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Pet Peeves
No, not another blog on my beloved baby girls.
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Lately, for me, it's the lack of pronunciation skills from people. Eliding of important letters and the obnoxious use of a certain word drive me crazy!
First, why not say a letter? Is it to save time? Do you think you sound cool? For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, the word is IMPORTANT.
Now that I have written it, does it ring a bell?
I've noticed that even newscasters say "impor'ant". That "T" isn't silent. Pronounce the freaking letter!!
The next word I am talking about is "LIKE".
Oh my God, when you speak please don't include the word in between every other one!
The other night we were listening to an interview. The woman was highly intelligent. Yet, in the five minute segment, this woman said "like" somewhere around 25 times!
No one needs to use the word unless more definition is legitimately needed.
Obviously, there are more speech issues that drive me a bit batty, but these are the ones irritating me most at this moment.
Have any of you noticed any unfortunate lapses in speech that annoy you to distraction?
Friday, October 18, 2024
Infrastructure Work, Not Really
We have potholes.
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This is an ongoing problem here in the outskirts of Phoenix. Not just in our streets but our highways.
We're talking BIG holes that can take out your transmission and give you serious whiplash.
We know where they are and have trained ourselves to avoid that lane at all times. Even going slow is a danger.
According to TV ads, a certain proposition has been working on it and needs to be voted back in to continue their efforts.
Of course, it's not supposed to up our taxes in any way - until you read the ubiquitous fine print.
We've lived here 12 years now. In that time, our neighborhood has only been resurfaced once. It was a really bad job. Crossing the street feels as if you're walking on boulders.
Our main streets? Not even once! The half mile to the freeway entrance has had the same two "holes" literally all dozen years!
The same can be said for the first 3 miles of the freeway.
This is wrong.
Steve has been delayed for up to an hour on the areas they have worked on. The detour is ridiculous.
Once the repair has been done they have to go back and paint the lines. That could take over a month!
The road may look better, but the potholes are still there! Not as deep, but still need to be avoided.
Our tax dollars at work? Not really. What about where you live?
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Part 4 Kitchen Now
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Part 3 Before Kitchen
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Can't Believe It, Pt. 2
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Can't Believe It
Sorry about this but I just can't seem to get more than one photo at a time. Before and after on our latest efforts. I also can't get my phone to turn the before guest bathroom photo.
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
Up, Down and All Around
Since my last post, things have been, well, quite something. Our emotions have run the gamut from happy/thrilled to indifference and sadness.
Thrilled for Dylan! He's begun to navigate through his senior year and what's coming next. Watching Aidan grow as he realizes working is actually work. Jackson is doing better than ever now that he's fully healed! Bryce is back to cheerleading. She's also starting singing lessons.
Sarah, Adam and Sam are doing great! Also quite busy.
Of course there's also the flip side. Sigh.
Lucky, our 12-ish 6 pound 4-legged boss child, has been quite under the weather. This is probably way too much information and I'm sorry.
Poor baby ruptured her anal glands. Outside of when she hurt her back, she's never been in so much pain. We just finished her antibiotics and gabapentin.
At least with Lucky it's easy to get the meds into her. Wednesday, I take both dogs in for re-checks and blood work.
Tuesday I meet my 5th new primary in 3 years. Here's my indifferent part. I have little hope of her staying long enough to form a medical relationship.
Then to wrap up -Steve's mom passed away. Almost 95, very fragile and bent over, she fell and broke 6 ribs, wound up with both congestive heart failure and pneumonia. The hospital ER doctor bordered on elder abuse.
Another topic, possibly, for a different time.
They got her to rehab where she immediately tested positive for covid.
Steve literally got there within 30 minutes of her passing.
Tomorrow we will be up at 4 a.m.. Drive to Los Angeles (8 hours, if we're in God's good graces), have the funeral, reverse the former and hopefully be home by midnight.
Sam, younger grands and all the pets will stay at home. I don't envy Sam! Sunshine is a difficult eater. Plus, she still has hard feelings about Daisy.
With all this said, I wish everyone peace and good health.
Friday, August 30, 2024
Disappointed
This week we had tickets to Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire. We were really looking forward to seeing and hearing the show.
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But unfortunately, it was beyond a disappointment!
We have no idea if either band was still as good as we remembered because we had the worst sound engineer ever!
A whole lot of people in our area kept asking, "Is it just me or are you having issues hearing the music and understanding the words?"
We were all sending the Footprint Arena notifications about this problem. So far, I haven't heard anything from them.
Then we got hosed, royally, at the food court! We knew it would be a forced expense but really?!?! $60!! We split a $9 soda. My chicken sandwich was quite short of the promised protein, we split a fry and Steve had chicken fingers.
We left early. That's when date night went really bad.
Our parking lot was a good half mile away but Steve said he found a better way of getting there.
First he said we had to take one flight of stairs. HA! It was 3! I had already done my max stair allotment getting to our seats.
Tears of pain had hit by the time we got out of the arena.
It was 109 degrees! Then Steve's easier way had us walking in endless circles for an hour. By then we were both drenched in sweat, spasming in many parts of our bodies and a bit scared! This is downtown Phoenix!
Finally found the car! Decided on our 40 minute trip home that this was our final concert.
Date night was way too adventurous and expensive for us.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Pet Peeves
Let me start by saying I am an independent. Both political parties have become a scary thought to me.
I have no idea if anyone else has been bombarded with spam basically telling me how disappointed they are in me for not contributing to "my" candidate.
Yes, it all goes to my junk file. Yes, I block and delete. But, somehow, I have still been receiving more than three a day!
As time goes on and closer to the actual election, these messages seem to becoming more aggressive and nasty.
Next pet peeve. We live caddy corner to a pocket park with a view. A few years ago when a friend and I were still walking at an ungodly hour in the morning, we came upon what appeared to be a homeless camp in n the bottom of the wash. We called the non-urgent police line and they came out and cleared it and meshed up the entire pipe.
Well, last week I went outside to clean up some wildlife remnants and saw what appeared to be a homeless cart just sitting there.
Kids play there. School kids use that park to both bike and walk to school. I couldn't believe that the houses that look right at it didn't report it.
So I gave it a day before I called. I was told someone would come out the next day and remove it.
Well they most certainly did not. Plus another neighbor at another pocket park told everyone about another cart!
No response from their report either. But, since their park is closer to the school they removed it.
Last peeve...
Sunshine is back to being picky. Good thing since Fresh Pet contacted me and said we shouldn't feed our baby their food because it's too high in phosphorus.
A toddler has nothing on Sunshine. Part of our refrigerator looks like a science lab! Stacked with covered bowls with food for her to try.
If only Greenies would make a kidney diet daily food!
Just a happy side note: Today, 8 years ago, we adopted our sweet picky eater. HAPPY ADOPTION DAY SUNSHINE!!!!
That is all.
