My mother's nickname is Otter. She competed in college level swimming, and earned it there. You may have seen my post where I explained that I canceled the preorder for Captured Pawn to care for my mother in hospice. Currently my mom is having a very slow heart attack. Heart event? She has chosen not … Continue reading Hospice Update
Tundra passed on Thursday. He had a sudden stomach pain in the night when I put him out. By morning he was doing very poorly. Now, he was an OLD boy, and had been struggling for a while, but this was different. I brought him in. They found bleeding in his abdomen and thought it … Continue reading He Was the Bestest Boy 10/10/10 – 06/13/24
When we lost Pyra, there were too few bantams left for the bantam coop. So I had to order bantams. They came in a minimum of three, and when they arrived there were four. Bringing us to six bantams. Then one of them managed to soak themself in the waterer, and we saved it, everything … Continue reading Lost a Second Chickie
I'm upset, my husband's upset, but I can't change it. Her beak by the end was at a 90 degree angle with itself, and I couldn't keep enough water and soaked feed in her. ;_; She's buried under one of our flowering bushes.
My uncle died January 17th, and we didn't find out until February 6th. It was a shock. We're all shocked and it doesn't seem quite real. He had a foot surgery, and I had called him on the 13th, leaving some silly, flippant, sing-song message teasing him for not answering his phone and ended it … Continue reading In Which I Ask for a Favor
My in-laws have an dog named Aasha. She’s sweet and borky, but she doesn’t like other dogs, violently so. We always kennel Tundra when we go to see them. She’s old and tired. She has some form of pituitary cancer, but they can’t do anything about it. She drinks and drinks and drinks but then … Continue reading Aasha Baasha
A friend of the family went into hospice this year and passed away. It was a whole debacle involving an estranged son and conflict and just, UGH. That's not the story though. The friend passed, and the son was supposed to clear out her apartment. He took his time about it, and when he finally … Continue reading Who Would Sink So Low?!?
My aunt passed after a three year battle with cancer. She had lung cancer, we thought it was beat, it returned and spread. They got to a point where further treatment was futile and a struggle for her, and she stopped treatment. We visited her a few times before Christmas, but then Covid came, and … Continue reading Goodbye to My Aunt
Mary has been a very sick dog with what we thought was a herniated disc, and we were struggling to get her to eat. Early last week she stopped eating, and she started not drinking. We got a syringe (NOT one for injections, one for feeding baby birds) and fed her water through it, rubbing … Continue reading Mary Didn’t Make It
I planted five little sticks of American Plum just last week, and they were starting to bud already. So exciting! There were four on the right side: And one tucked in the gap between the apricot trees where one of them had been eaten by deer: All was looking well, but when I went out … Continue reading Farewell, My American Plum
