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This is so sweet. Includes a kitten and a fawn - how could it not be wonderful!

Juliet's blood work shows that she has mild kidney disease, something that's apparently consistent with the extra drinking and occasional vomiting. The fact that she's not been vomiting with the current food is good. Her numbers: BUN is 43, and normally it should be about 30, plus or minus 5. Creatinine is 2.3. High normal is 2.4, and the vets ( Read more... )

Juliet went to the Dr. today, the vet I liked last fall. I called this morning to find out the vet's name and when I could bring Juliet in to see her - today is the vet's last day to see patients before her vacation, but she'll be in tomorrow morning to tell me the results of the blood test. Result of blood glucose: normal. And the Dr. said that ( Read more... )

One of the email lists I'm on gave this very funny link. Evidently Edward Gorey was a fan of both Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but it's the Star Trek aspect that is highlighted here. Very funny ( Read more... )

37 large Plastic garbage bags full of clothes have been donated to Goodwill. The Goodwill folks were somewhat overwhelmed, but ok with it. They also take used computers! That's a change from previous policy - I tried to donate those a while ago and they wouldn't take computers. So, if dw can get the hard drives out, away they go! Hooray!

The other day, I saw water for sale, not unusual under most circumstances. But this was special water. It was being advertised as "non-fat" water! I need to get some of that. The water I've been drinking must be the high-fat variety, since they don't mention how much fat is in it. Sneaky water marketers!

As promised, for the teaching community: here is the lesson plan for "Everybody Loves A Rock ( Read more... )

I can't think of anyone else who'd be interested: Dr. visit today about my injured, formerly "good" knee. He says it's pre-patellar bursitis and it will resolve in 6 months (only 4 month to go!) and don't stoop, kneel, or squat until it's better. Right... so I spent today rearranging books and squatting, and stooping and kneeling (sort of, it ( Read more... )

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I don't know if it's really Bob Dylan, but it's pretty funny! Friday was the 50th bithday of The Cat in the Hat, and we had a great celebration at school. Good fun, silly hats. Even I wore a hat, for about 20 minutes.

The nutrition network has just given our classroom 3 heads of cabbage. 1 appears to be bok choy, sort of, one is purple, and one is pretty much the normal one you'd use for the "corned beef and..." type of cabbage. I'm supposed to figure out what to do with these to get the third graders to eat (well at least try - "one bite, it's the rule!"). does ( Read more... )