28

January

A follow-up to Chica’s surgery

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Annie sent me an update on Chica’s progress. Here they are, housemates and playmates — hangin’ out together.  BooBoo, the cat (Apex predator and King-of-the Household, is looking after newly spayed Chica.  BooB00 probably does not understand why Chica isn’t her usual zippy self.  I’m keeping her slowed down with pain/sedation pills 4x a day. [...]

27

January

Annie’s Chica has surgery

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Annie’s Blogging about Chica Our guest blogger today is my friend Annie Holmes.  Her darling little Chica has had surgery.  Chica is so little, I asked Annie if the vet had performed microsurgery on her. Update on Chica Here is six-month-old Chica — still intact.  Tomorrow morning at 8 AM I will deliver her to [...]

25

January

A Tale of Two Restaurants

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I love to eat out It’s not a secret that I love to eat out.  I hate to cook, so one logically follows the other, doesn’t it?  So, I know a bit about restaurants.  Today I want to talk about two restaurants, both owned by chains, and both visited by me recently. Macaroni Grill Our [...]

21

January

Water/rain comes to drought country

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Well, weeds are sprouting in my once super dry lawn, the wind is thinning the trees of their dead growth, and water is running in the formerly dry stream bed that flows by my house. I’m not used to all this rain.  Let me show you photos I took several days ago. Last night we [...]