Our long suffering cat was euthanized at aprox 9:45am CST today, Saturday Feb 7th.
He and his late littermate Cally were two Wisconsin Humane Society kittens from the old location behind WTMJ tv and radio near Esterbrook Park in Milwaukee WI.
Best estimate were he was born Feb 08th 1995. But we will call him 20 years old.
He will be cremated and his ashes scatted over his sisters grave by a peony in our back yard.
Our four year old, Simon, has a couple chipped/broken teeth that may need to be removed. Otherwise very healthy.
Rusty, almost 20 years old, has lost a pound - 1/8th of his weight -- since this summer. He has blood in his stool, is somewhat anemic and his colon feels thick and abnormal. This on top of his kidney disease and heart murmur.
They did tests. We find out Monday.
They gave us some meds to ease his symptoms.
The vet first thought colitis but given his age and the abnormal feeling bowel... quite possibly cancer.
... rpm Wheaties Micky Mouse Club records while we were waiting for something to happen on the TV. There was delay after delay so finally as we are all dressed dad drove us the 26 miles to my grandparents farm.
In that 40 minutes it took to load up and drive THIS happened.
After a modest delay I am posting Timeout 4, Chapter 14 in a multipart installment over the next week or so. Four or five posts of anywhere from 20 to 30 plus pages each should see it done.
As Princess for Hire and several other excellent but interrupted serials have posted of late I figured I should jump on the bandwagon.
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Itinerant and Holly Hart helped me a while back on this, LAST YEAR in fact. I think. It's been a while. I believe they are both out of rehab by now.
June 13th 2005 my mother died from cancer, at home in her sleep.
Though she was in a bad way the day before she was able to carry on an intelligent conversation with our former neighbor -- a childhood friend of mine -- and his wife.
Her death is what encoursged me to become active here as an outlet for my feelings.
Still makes me cry thinking of this active lovely woman all but helpless as the cancer took away her ability to move.
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And the punch line to the question, how many years does it tale the Nwy York/San Fransico Giants to win an Perfect Game?
I enjoy many of the stories here and the commentary.
There is little here that is bad other than the occasional mini-flame war. Fortunately we for the most part don't descend to that here . And Erin and her elves are vigilant the few times we don't mind our manners.
But there is a menace, an insidious evil lurking here.
Checks can be made out & sent to:
Joyce Melton
1001 Third St.
Space 80
Calimesa, CA 92320
USA
Note: $6000 is the operating, maintenance and upgrade budget. Amounts received in excess of the $6000 will be applied to long term debt accrued over the last 19 years.
