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This is sort of how I felt today. Like lying in the middle of the floor.

This is Milo, and he is the sweetest little Jack Russell mix. He's not hyper at all...he's a little lap dog, who prefers a good nap to any kind of running around.

Psst! Hey! You! Hoo-mon. Remember that when it comes to the Humane Society, it's the animals that are important! We wait here until we have new homes. This is our place, and we're what matters. Not politics. Animals.

Had a great day in Lansing with Mom and Grandma. We had lunch and a lot of nice conversation. A perfect summer day!

How quickly the summer flies! I think I am starting to see some leaves already turning, which is odd because my tomatoes sure aren't! This is the only one with even a hint of anything other than green.

Today was a rough day at work. My Tweety (kitten from July 15 photo) has come down with an URI and is now in the med room. I worry about him. And our London, sweet beagle, was rushed to the vet today and is not doing well at all. Will you keep them both in your thoughts?

I have a squash!

We stopped by Mom and Dad's today to see their progress on the garden. It's looking great!

Mom's nearly done with the cement pouring now, and will soon be on to the topsoil and grass seeding.

Today was not a good day at work. Not at all. But my work garden is doing really well! Look at these tomatoes! My radishes were huge, fist-sized.

Squash blossom. It was 81 degrees today. It's supposed to cool off over the next few days, but it's been an unseasonably cool summer in my opinion.

My Tweety. He always looks vaguely irritated, but he's such a sweetie! He's a great little cat and I will miss him when he eventually gets adopted.

This is Matty, Tweety's brother. Matty is named after Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke. He was so brave when we took his blood for his test, and basically just waited patiently as I held him for the needle. Matty and Tweety's sisters, Penny and Mandy, were adopted weeks ago. I'm not sure why they haven't found their new homes yet. We have younger kittens now on the floor, which will lessen their chances even more. How is it that baby animals lose their value to society once they are no longer 10 weeks old?

Bob pointed out this shot...it's the sprinkler spray in the sunlight. It kind of looks like fireworks...very pretty. We got the side yard rolled, prepared and seeded this afternoon.

This weekend went so quickly. It was nice to be able to use the water in the house after five days without. We've got incredible water pressure now, too!

Finally, at 8:50pm tonight, water was restored. The first thing I did was clean the kitchen sink, and that makes a huge difference. Everything feels a little less dirty, and I feel a little less grumpy.

This is April, with cat Gracie. A gentleman had his truck towed to Jim Hazel because it stopped working all of a sudden on the road. The mechanic opened the hood and found our Gracie, entangled in the engine. He brought her to us. Pennfield Animal Hospital did an amazing thing for us and performed four surgeries to correct her broken leg (pin inserted and removed after healing), partial tail amputation and closing her wounds as her burned flesh kept dying back.

Katz was here today. I stopped out for lunch to see the progress. I was surprised by the amount of dirt left over, all over the drive and back yard. It's so heavy and wet...no idea what we'll do with it.

Tomorrow I am taking the day off so I can stay home for the well hook-up. Hopefully everything will go okay and we'll have water tomorrow night.

Chuck and Sally sent me flowers for my one year anniversary at the shelter today. They are lovely, and it was incredibly thoughtful :)

We have no water at the house now, as of yesterday afternoon. Bob is taking tomorrow off to deal with it, and I am taking Thursday off. Hopefully, Thursday evening will be the completion of a new well and the return of water.

Another lovely day! Went to breakfast, went for coffee, went over to Mom and Dad's. Then, home to do laundry and relax, out to the new chinese place for dinner, a drive around, a walk through downtown Battle Creek and home again

Mom is making progress on her walkway in the side yard.

It was a lovely day today. Kind of gray again, but not as cold as the past few days.

I think the front flowers look better this year than in any year past.

Bob and I went to breakfast this morning at Big Boy. Then we went over to Honey Lane to look around before going grocery shopping.

We went for a bike ride this afternoon, and then met Herbie for dinner. We finished up the day with driving all the streets around Goguac Lake.

Bob and I went down to Griffin to have a drink on their patio, and enjoy the downtown. It was lovely!

The balloons finally went up this morning, which was kind of surprising because it was so cloudy. I took today off work for a long weekend.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

This is sort of how I felt today. Like lying in the middle of the floor.

This is Milo, and he is the sweetest little Jack Russell mix. He's not hyper at all...he's a little lap dog, who prefers a good nap to any kind of running around.