In ashes of despair

my mother’s 80th birthday. I’m sitting here with my first cup of tea of the day, musing on this. It’s a strange thing, the remembrance of the birthday for one who has died. There’s still cause for celebration, but I’m not sure the proper form the celebration should take. Going to the cemetary with a…

The Professor has finally brought himself almost completely around to a diurnal schedule. He went to bed an hour earlier than I did, and awoke an hour earlier than I did. This is a huge change from just two weeks earlier when his schedule had him going to sleep at six in the morning and…

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With the aid of an appetite enhancing drug, they got CW to eat a bit at the vet’s this morning. He managed to keep it down for a few hours, so after a bit of a talk with the vet on call today we decided to let CW come home and see how he fares…

What a day. Three inches of snow, give or take, made an unseasonable and quite unwelcome appearance today. You don’t have to go more than ten or so minutes north of us to find areas afflicted with six inches, so I guess I shouldn’t complain too much. Why must it always snow on days I…

JAVMA (The Journal of the American Veterinary Association) had a really cool pullout poster this issue. It’s the only time in the past ten years that I can recall them doing such a thing. The poster is a listing of “Disease from Potential Bioterrorist Agents”. I rather doubt these will be used as bioterrorist agents,…