Monday, September 28, 2009

Beach Walk, Doctor, Pack

I took an early beach walk today. I only had to share the beach with the birds and sand crabs.












See the little crab in this picture?

I thought I would get in a little beach time before the warm weather was gone. I got wrapped up with projects and sore thumbs this summer and didn’t get in much in the way of kayaking or beaches.


I went to see Dr Silberberg about my thumbs. This was a 6-week checkup to assess how they were doing. I’m still experiencing some relief from the shots. Pain is gradually returning. I’ll just have to try to manage it the best I can and when it gets unbearable go get shots.

I talked with Karen, Kathy, Dawn, my aunt Dot and Christy today. Things are firming up for the trip up north. One evening will be spent with the Lenart side of the Family and the next with the Gug side.

Interspersed throughout the day I packed. I’ve got the major packing done for VT. I need to put a J’ville suitcase together and I will be ready.

KITTY UPDATE—about 4:30 today I looked outside to see Slash sleeping under the gas grill. I like Slash. He goes way back to the early days of our feeding kitties when Mustache was coming to see us. Mustache is Slash’s dad as far as we know. Slash and his brother Ranger used to sit outside our bedroom window when they were kittens.

I hadn't seen Slash since we’ve been back so I thought I would feed him. He is quite wary of me but has learned not to run away because sometimes I bring food. I put a can of food in a paper plate and started outside only to find Marmalade coming down from the roof. I turned around and split the food on 2 plates and headed back out. Now Meredith had joined the group. I put down the food widely separated to allow Slash to have one without getting too close to the others. They don’t fight but Slash usually gets hissed at. Well, I tried to keep them separated. Instead, Marmalade went over to Slashes plate and tries to eat there. A little bit of hissing to show she’s boss and then she goes to the other plate with Meridith.

This evening I had the usual 4 to feed.

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