animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

thanksgiving

Another year, another Thanksgiving. It was looking a bit touchy this year, with Jake’s surgery. But, he felt well enough to travel (mostly, I think he didn’t want to miss out on dinner), so we went to my in-laws’ house for dinner on Thursday. It was a doggy kind of …

the surgery

Jake’s surgery was yesterday. Things went well. He’s in a lot of pain, but is doing better than I expected. Now, comes the hard part–he will be in physical therapy for a bit and won’t be able to return to full activity until next summer.

sylvia

Brian was easier to convince about the cat thing than I would have originally thought. So, I sent my application in to the Humane Society of Somerset County and we picked up our new cat yesterday afternoon. She is a mostly white calico and her shelter name was Callie. We’re …

doh

In my previous post, I thought my chipmunk post was missing, mostly because I thought the title was chipmunk. It turns out that it was entitled thief. Crisis averted. I will chalk this up to the fact that I’m on day 19 of my illness and haven’t had a decent …

mice

Previously, we thought we had a chipmunk problem in the house. I would link to my post on the subject, but it has gone missing. Not sure what happened there. I’ve been having a problem when editing published posts–when I do this, it creates a 2nd post and makes one …