I managed to catch a cold over the weekend, and also managed to get an infection in my left ear.  As per my usual illness, I have almost no voice left.  The ear actually woke me up Monday morning with throbbing, so I figured that I had better be seen by someone.  I went to a nurse practitioner, who prescribed amoxicillin.  I explained that ( Read more... )

     This weekend, I finally learned how to dive with goggles.  I had entered a swim meet at Harvard, figuring that this would give me an incentive to learn how to dive.  However, we went on vacation for the 10 days prior to the meet, limiting my opportunity.  I practiced some on Friday, during warm-up, with variable success.  By Sunday, however, I ( Read more... )

     When I got home yesterday afternoon, there was a smallish possum hanging around the front yard.  When I got out of the car, he sort of lumbered off into the brush.  It still seemed weird to me, as they tend to be nocturnal critters.  We seem to have an awful lot of wildlife around the house lately...

     Our front door has been having issues recently.  About two weeks ago, the key cut my finger and I made foldedfish  start leaving the door unlocked; at least this way, I was able to get into the house without injury.  The knob was still a little tight to turn, but it was possible.  Thus started the saga of the doorknob.  I figured that it would be easy ( Read more... )

If anyone would like to go see "Rabbit Hole" with us, we are going to the 8 pm show in Arlington on February 13th.

The next show after that is "Aida", the last weekend of April or the first weekend of May.

Tickets for the shows are $18.  They are in a small, renovated church near Arlington Center.  The quality has been great overall, even for the ( Read more... )

    In other news, Mele got a snooker Q in USDAA agility today.  He then proceeded to leap from the end of the dog walk during the gamble, otherwise we would have Q'd in that as well. At least we're making progress.  He only knocked one jump bar, and that was my fault; there was a time not too long ago when half the course would go down.  Now we ( Read more... )

    About two weeks ago, a client brought in a baby bird.  It looked to be about a week old, a rather ugly thing with few feathers, a large beak, and tufty feathers on the head.  Unfortunately, the wildlife centers won't take baby starlings, as they were introduced to the U.S. around 1900 by someone who decided that we should have all the birds ( Read more... )

    After a several month battle with a mass slowly growing on his right side, my betta passed away on Mother's Day.  I got a new betta last week.  He seemed a little quiet (not swimming, just hanging out at the bottom of the tank), but I figured that he was a new addition.  When we got home last Sunday I noticed that one of the black tetras had ( Read more... )

    On the way up from Middletown, just before Rt 84 merges with the Pike, there is an informational sign by the side of the road that advertises "Seraph", with no additional information. 
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    Lacuna had radioactive iodine treatment on Tuesday and came home yesterday around noon.  Several people have asked whether he would gain super powers as  result of the irradiation, and I wasn't sure.  However, we can now confirm that he does in fact have a superpower...he has a supersonic meow ( Read more... )