Someone on Facebook said it was Shitty Tuesday, and I concur.
Month: July 2012
All Your Pillow Are Belong to Harriet
Miss Brown is the Princess and the Pea.
Four O’Clocks in the Morning
Apparently the secret to photographing four o’clocks is to catch them early in the morning, before they close up shop for the day. These were still heavy with dew.
We Have Achieved Hippie Nirvana
I now officially live in hippie hell. Goodbye ugly, vile, clunky, crashy vertical blinds, and hello turquoise paisley bliss. With elephants.
Leftovers
I bought a cheap wire shelving unit for the kitchen at Target. After putting it together, this is what was left. Now, some of those pieces are meant to be extra “feet,” so you can separate the shelves into two units. Why they gave me 12 feet when at most I’d need 8, is a mystery. The metal washer and the black plastic ring thingies? I have no idea. They weren’t on the parts list included with the instructions.
Mammatus Clouds
Mammatus clouds with sunset glow
At the Vet
Harriet went to the vet today. She’s been leaking again, despite being on Proin. The vet did blood work and urinalysis to rule out a UTI, diabetes, and kidney failure. He doesn’t think it’s Cushing’s syndrome, either, given her occasional bouts of having no appetite. We can do a more definitive test for that later, if we need to. His verdict is that she’s just got a floppy bladder. She’s an old lady dog, and that’s common. He recommended adding DES to her regimen.
She does have laryngeal paralysis. That’s not of immediate concern, but it’s something that’s going to progress. Eventually she’ll begin to have trouble breathing, and at some point we’ll have to weigh the pros and cons of tie-back surgery. He feels (and I tend to agree) that by the time surgery is necessary, it will likely only buy us a few months. At that point, it may be more humane just to put her to sleep. Hopefully that’ll be way down the road from now, though!
For now, she’s pretty healthy (leaky bladder aside), and she’s pretty happy, and that’s all I care about.
Fruit on the Bottom
I’m really enjoying this season’s blueberries. And strawberries. Add some yogurt for an unintentionally patriotic breakfast.
Flowers
I got the big camera out, for a change. I was hoping to get a few photos of my four o’clocks, but it’s overcast and by the time it’s late enough in the day for them to open, the decent light will be gone. Maybe tomorrow. There are some pink and yellow variegated ones that are very pretty. You’ll have to make do with zinnias, because I’m not tired of them yet. I may never get tired of them.
Hello, tiny spider!
Aaaaand, some butterfly bush. Just to prove that I have more than zinnias.
Elephants
I finally gave up on trying to find patio window curtains I could live with in a price range I could also live with. So I decided to embrace my inner hippie and order these. They are turquoise. They have elephants. They have paisley. What’s not to love?
red paper boat 