2009/7/10 1017 hrs

I CAN STAY HOME TODAY! YESSSS! I hope, think and pray. I have discovered the hard way that I am not a party animal! Altho I just might reconsider!

I have a small dog who smells like a rather oversized, overfed skunk wanting to climb in my lap. Now, I do like the smell of skunk but from a distance and preferably down wind of me. However, at the moment, the aroma is up close and personal and all over the newly repaired A/C.

Two nites ago, an odor woke me but it didn’t smell like anything but burned coffee. I rolled my sorry buns out and staggered to the kitchen… The odor was almost like a physical presence and strongest by the back door… and it weren’t scorched coffee.

Oh man! Somebody got into it with a skunk… That somebody (who shall remain nameless, but his initials are Maxfield Parrish) is sleeping right next to me at the moment. Sheesh! Ah yes, the call/smell of the wild!

This has not been my week for animals … or maybe I should say that the other way around.

Remember me telling you about Ophie and the pillow? Well, how bout I woke the other morning and found the bed and the floor covered with feathers… big holes in the pillow… pillow didn’t survive, that’s a definite… I THINK I will but that’s a definite maybe! Lolol

Let’s see… Viva went thru her surgery with flying colors… Jessie and I were killed. Lolol This getting up before breakfast is no fun… DO like my sleep! Lolol Anyway, while we were killing time, we stopped at a junk store.

Proprietor was outside the shop starting a fire under a big wash tub. Or trying to start one.

She was starting to can/cold pack quart jars of green beans… a four hour job. The lid to the kettle was a square of plywood…Ya do with what ya got.



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Made my trip to Kim’s office… No problem driving to town. Good Grief! Lots of people in the waiting room already at 1315 hrs… I played with a couple of kids… and didn’t get out of there until 1615 hours.

Stopped at the Action Team office…lolol Played with a bunny rabbit, domestic type. Cute little feller… Somebody brought him in and dropped him off as a gift for somebody else…. It’s a small town and this is the way things are done here. We have our own relay and delivery system. I love it…

Well, I left the AT and headed home… promptly forgetting to pick up a ‘just in case’ refill at the drugstore. Sheesh! Still no volunteers to act as my keeper? Crackin’ up…

Oh, I did find out that I don’t have any tick borne diseases… I guess that’s good.

I followed Anna’s advice about the flea collars…Asked Joey, the Vet, about some. He gave me that look. Especially after I told him the collars absolutely had to be color co-ordinated to match my outfits. Would you believe he threw me out of his office?

I gots ta get busy… gonna take a nap don’tcha know.

Take care all of mine. Go in safety always. Remember to stuff a flea collar in your pocket before you go into the wilds.

Many hugs and much love… meems