'Wog, I'm still thinking about that seagull who is probably eating Spaghettios and hot dogs right now.
Heard from the vet this morning and she said Puffin's tests came back absolutely clear. Not a thing wrong with him. Liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, all functioning as they should. I told her that I was serving him food and when I did, he ate. She laughed. Maybe I'll continue like this until he regains the weight he lost and then just point him to the food dish and tell him he's on his own. I guess it was a delayed reaction to all the changes lately. After all, he & Bambu are close to 18 (Jan. 25,).
I love Fall. It's my favorite season and now that I'm in the northeast, I'll finally be able to really enjoy it. Friends say it's still around 90 in L.A.
Hello Eva, So glad to hear that Puff is okay. You can breathe now! It must be the stress got to him. Cats seem to adjust quickly. So he'll be okay. It will be better once you get all your stuff unpacked, and everything feels and smells familiar.
Your new place is so different from living in LA. You'll actually get to enjoy Fall.
Joe & I took some time to go for a drive to Point Pleasant Beach and walk on their boardwalk. It's only 10 min. away (although with construction it seemed longer). Anyway, we drove through some side street, past a guy in a hardhat who was shoveling and this huge swan was standing next to him watching. We drove very slowly and heard this conversation between hardhat and a neighbor:
Neighbor: What on earth is that swan doing? Hardhat: Hell if I know. He just walked across the street. Maybe he wants a job. Neighbor: Damndest thing I've ever seen.
At this point we passed the scene. It sounded really funny in these thick New Joisey accents. The guy in the hardhat just kept shoveling.
Eva, one of the strangest bird stories I have was seeing a hummingbird attack a blue jay in flight. The blue jay flipped 360 degrees while flying and could not get away fast enough. Yeah puffin!
Eva, I'm loving reading the stories about your move and getting settled in back home. Keep 'em coming! Very glad Puffin received a clean bill of health. The old man is doing pretty well! Agree that he'll be his old self again once everything gets unpacked and he's with familiar things and smells.
All the BS going on about Obamacare is irritating me. I spent a good part of the day today getting ready all the info. documents we have to give every employee before 10/1. Got it together and we're putting them in their paycheck envelopes tomorrow. The bill even has strict guidelines about how an employer is allowed to deliver the info. papers to employees. The insurance we offer is way better and way less expensive than any employee can get from applying for Obamacare. But I guarantee you at least 20 of our staff will ask me to find out if they can get a better deal from this train wreck. At which point I will tell them to go online and figure it out for themselves. It isn't our responsibility to figure that out for them (none of them will qualify). Color me seriously ticked off at this ridiculous train wreck.
I feel better now! Thanks for reading me rant! I'm cooking myself a home-made Chinese noodle bowl loaded with lots of veggies and chicken for dinner. Tomorrow is Friday!
Surfie, The fact that you work with the boss of a small company gives you the real story on obamacare. We know that dems lie, and we know that o lies. They are trying to make obamacare . I don't think that sound like the best deal on the planet.
INTERESTING NEWS: Ground Gives Way, and a Louisiana Town Struggles to Find Its Footing
BAYOU CORNE, La. — It was nearly 16 months ago that Dennis P. Landry and his wife, Pat, on a leisurely cruise in their Starcraft pontoon boat, first noticed a froth of bubbles issuing from the depths of Bayou Corne, an idyllic, cypress-draped stream that meanders through swampy southern Louisiana.
Just over two months later, in the predawn blackness of Aug. 3, 2012, the earth opened up — a voracious maw 325 feet across and hundreds of feet deep, swallowing 100-foot trees, guzzling water from adjacent swamps and belching methane from a thousand feet or more beneath the surface.
(snip) More than a year after it appeared, the Bayou Corne sinkhole is about 25 acres and still growing, almost as big as 20 football fields, lazily biting off chunks of forest and creeping hungrily toward an earthen berm built to contain its oily waters. It has its own Facebook page and its own groupies, conspiracy theorists who insist the pit is somehow linked to the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles south and the earthquake-prone New Madrid fault 450 miles north.
'Wog, I'm still thinking about that seagull who is probably eating Spaghettios and hot dogs right now.
ReplyDeleteHeard from the vet this morning and she said Puffin's tests came back absolutely clear. Not a thing wrong with him. Liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, all functioning as they should. I told her that I was serving him food and when I did, he ate. She laughed. Maybe I'll continue like this until he regains the weight he lost and then just point him to the food dish and tell him he's on his own. I guess it was a delayed reaction to all the changes lately. After all, he & Bambu are close to 18 (Jan. 25,).
I love Fall. It's my favorite season and now that I'm in the northeast, I'll finally be able to really enjoy it. Friends say it's still around 90 in L.A.
Have a great day, deer Ponders :)
Hello Eva, So glad to hear that Puff is okay. You can breathe now! It must be the stress got to him. Cats seem to adjust quickly. So he'll be okay. It will be better once you get all your stuff unpacked, and everything feels and smells familiar.
DeleteYour new place is so different from living in LA. You'll actually get to enjoy Fall.
Joe & I took some time to go for a drive to Point Pleasant Beach and walk on their boardwalk. It's only 10 min. away (although with construction it seemed longer). Anyway, we drove through some side street, past a guy in a hardhat who was shoveling and this huge swan was standing next to him watching. We drove very slowly and heard this conversation between hardhat and a neighbor:
ReplyDeleteNeighbor: What on earth is that swan doing?
Hardhat: Hell if I know. He just walked across the street. Maybe he wants a job.
Neighbor: Damndest thing I've ever seen.
At this point we passed the scene. It sounded really funny in these thick New Joisey accents. The guy in the hardhat just kept shoveling.
Eva, one of the strangest bird stories I have was seeing a hummingbird attack a blue jay in flight. The blue jay flipped 360 degrees while flying and could not get away fast enough. Yeah puffin!
ReplyDeleteEva, I'm loving reading the stories about your move and getting settled in back home. Keep 'em coming! Very glad Puffin received a clean bill of health. The old man is doing pretty well! Agree that he'll be his old self again once everything gets unpacked and he's with familiar things and smells.
ReplyDeleteAll the BS going on about Obamacare is irritating me. I spent a good part of the day today getting ready all the info. documents we have to give every employee before 10/1. Got it together and we're putting them in their paycheck envelopes tomorrow. The bill even has strict guidelines about how an employer is allowed to deliver the info. papers to employees. The insurance we offer is way better and way less expensive than any employee can get from applying for Obamacare. But I guarantee you at least 20 of our staff will ask me to find out if they can get a better deal from this train wreck. At which point I will tell them to go online and figure it out for themselves. It isn't our responsibility to figure that out for them (none of them will qualify). Color me seriously ticked off at this ridiculous train wreck.
I feel better now! Thanks for reading me rant! I'm cooking myself a home-made Chinese noodle bowl loaded with lots of veggies and chicken for dinner. Tomorrow is Friday!
Surfie,
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you work with the boss of a small company gives you the real story on obamacare. We know that dems lie, and we know that o lies. They are trying to make obamacare . I don't think that sound like the best deal on the planet.
Happy Friday, Surfie. You deserve it.
INTERESTING NEWS:
ReplyDeleteGround Gives Way, and a Louisiana Town Struggles to Find Its Footing
BAYOU CORNE, La. — It was nearly 16 months ago that Dennis P. Landry and his wife, Pat, on a leisurely cruise in their Starcraft pontoon boat, first noticed a froth of bubbles issuing from the depths of Bayou Corne, an idyllic, cypress-draped stream that meanders through swampy southern Louisiana.
Just over two months later, in the predawn blackness of Aug. 3, 2012, the earth opened up — a voracious maw 325 feet across and hundreds of feet deep, swallowing 100-foot trees, guzzling water from adjacent swamps and belching methane from a thousand feet or more beneath the surface.
(snip)
More than a year after it appeared, the Bayou Corne sinkhole is about 25 acres and still growing, almost as big as 20 football fields, lazily biting off chunks of forest and creeping hungrily toward an earthen berm built to contain its oily waters. It has its own Facebook page and its own groupies, conspiracy theorists who insist the pit is somehow linked to the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles south and the earthquake-prone New Madrid fault 450 miles north.
READ STORY: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/us/ground-gives-way-and-a-louisiana-town-struggles-to-find-its-footing.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0