Now I must start with how I have become the Crazy Cat, Bird, and Dog Lady. When my son was in 8th grade some 6 years ago he worked in a pet store! He is very knowledgeable and good with animals so he some how convinced me to allow him to get two love birds. Two turned into many and even a white parakeet showed up! We gave away many and figured out how to stop the mass procreation by buying separate cages for the love birds. No one said we were bright!
Years have gone by and I am left with two love birds(in separate cages) and one white parakeet. When I was a child we had parakeets but they didn't last more then 2 or 3 years but some how our white one has last over 6 and much to my chagrin have found out that love birds live 15 years or more!
I have 8 0r 9 more years to go before I am bird less!!! I will be around retirement age according to the US government before I am bird less! Now my husband has come up with a solutions for the bird situation but just opening the cage doors while I am cleaning the cages on the back deck seems cruel. As this would work for two of the birds one has been hand raised and won't fly away. You ask how do I know this, well he sits on my shoulder and I have gone running down the street after the dog and this lady is staring at me and when I pass her on the way back she says to me "Are you aware you have a small parrot on your shoulder?" He thinks I am his mother and won't fly away!!! This is how I have become the Crazy Bird Lady!
I forgot about the 15 or so Guinea Hens that come running when I step to the backyard but that is another story
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Gone Missing
I have not been abducted but just working and traveling! I have been out west visiting ALF, and college buddies! It was Nurses Week and ALF was planning a nursing fair as part of her job so of course I came out to volunteer to show what goes on in the Operating Room. I think it went well but I am the mother of the organizer so I might be bias!
After the fair ALF and I went and met two of my college buddies in one of Northern California's gold mining towns. I think we laughed from 4:30pm Saturday to 2:00pm Sunday continuously!
It is something we need to do regularly!
I now am back at work counting the weeks until my next vacation! I usually vacation every other month but we have a maximum of two weeks from Memorial Day to Labor Day so that makes the summer a long haul for me! I actually don't have a vacation for 13 weeks since my last vacation and then I will be going to Alaska for two weeks so I guess it is worth the wait! I look at work as a means to make the money to vacation. Since my job is extremely stressful it is the best way to keep your sanity
After the fair ALF and I went and met two of my college buddies in one of Northern California's gold mining towns. I think we laughed from 4:30pm Saturday to 2:00pm Sunday continuously!
It is something we need to do regularly!
I now am back at work counting the weeks until my next vacation! I usually vacation every other month but we have a maximum of two weeks from Memorial Day to Labor Day so that makes the summer a long haul for me! I actually don't have a vacation for 13 weeks since my last vacation and then I will be going to Alaska for two weeks so I guess it is worth the wait! I look at work as a means to make the money to vacation. Since my job is extremely stressful it is the best way to keep your sanity
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Animal Worthy
With our latest happens I am starting to wonder if we are animal worthy! Yes Dobby is back, my husband has a broken fibula(smaller bone in your lower leg) and one of our neighbors has passed away at 61 years of age. Now one of those things is good and the other two are not.
Not that I was close to my neighbor but he and his wife have been there since we moved in our house and I guess you always expect things to stay the same until someone moves or you move.
My day goes like this: I tell my husband either go to the doctor about his leg that he hurt over a week ago playing rugby or shut up! He choose the former and when the doctor calls me to tell me what he has found(exactly what I had told him the day before when I worked with him) I am not surprised. Later when I call my husband he says his leg is fine and that he has just gotten back from the wake I say what wake? Then he tells me of the neighbor's demise!
That night when I go to bed I forget to let Lola back in so she is out for the night which is not a problem except that she is a roamer as previously told. I awake at 4:00am realizing she is gone so now we wait until day break and my husband goes out looking for her but she is gone. I call the police and animal control but no luck! Then there is a knock on the door and my widowed neighbor is there with Lola saying she had come by late last night and the family was still up after the funeral. They let her in so she was with the grieving family! Lola has many talents!
Not that I was close to my neighbor but he and his wife have been there since we moved in our house and I guess you always expect things to stay the same until someone moves or you move.
My day goes like this: I tell my husband either go to the doctor about his leg that he hurt over a week ago playing rugby or shut up! He choose the former and when the doctor calls me to tell me what he has found(exactly what I had told him the day before when I worked with him) I am not surprised. Later when I call my husband he says his leg is fine and that he has just gotten back from the wake I say what wake? Then he tells me of the neighbor's demise!
That night when I go to bed I forget to let Lola back in so she is out for the night which is not a problem except that she is a roamer as previously told. I awake at 4:00am realizing she is gone so now we wait until day break and my husband goes out looking for her but she is gone. I call the police and animal control but no luck! Then there is a knock on the door and my widowed neighbor is there with Lola saying she had come by late last night and the family was still up after the funeral. They let her in so she was with the grieving family! Lola has many talents!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Blabbermouth
ALF is a blabbermouth because I was just waiting to get a picture of Lola with Dobby! Yes he is back just the way ALF described it. He just came walking in like nothing had happened. Lola smiled for an entire day(Lola does smile, something I will have to try to capture) and wagged her tail all day.
Now that we are a complete family again it is "Bunny Season" which is not a good thing!! The cats think catching baby bunnies and torturing them is fun and games. The ones I can rescue I have to bottle feed and very few make it!
Now that we are a complete family again it is "Bunny Season" which is not a good thing!! The cats think catching baby bunnies and torturing them is fun and games. The ones I can rescue I have to bottle feed and very few make it!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Lola's Revenge
After my last post about Lola there were some pretty nasty comments about her size and things she does to maintain her sanity here at the "Zoo". Living with Arthur the neurotic Vizsla could drive anyone even me to chewing the remote controls!
Lola was abandoned in old barn rubble to give birth to 9 babies and she managed to feed them and keep them healthy until someone found them. She has had heart worm and Lyme's disease. Even after all these set backs she is a happy girl that enjoys walking on the beach and greeting all fellow walkers. I will admit that she has gone from almost starving to a bit overweight but she is working on it.
She now has a new problem, her cat Dobby is missing! Yes, she has her own pet and is very sad that it is missing for almost a week! We have this crazy lady that lives on the other side of the woods that is known for keeping other people's cats and that is where we think Dobby is. We have made fliers.
Lola was abandoned in old barn rubble to give birth to 9 babies and she managed to feed them and keep them healthy until someone found them. She has had heart worm and Lyme's disease. Even after all these set backs she is a happy girl that enjoys walking on the beach and greeting all fellow walkers. I will admit that she has gone from almost starving to a bit overweight but she is working on it.
She now has a new problem, her cat Dobby is missing! Yes, she has her own pet and is very sad that it is missing for almost a week! We have this crazy lady that lives on the other side of the woods that is known for keeping other people's cats and that is where we think Dobby is. We have made fliers.
LOST CAT
DOBBY
GRAY TIGER STRIPE
OWNER SHOWN IN PICTURE
HEART BROKEN
The crazy lady called and said that she saw our cat a few days ago down the street and the new people might have the cat. She has one that looks just like it but it never goes out! So now my husband is going to ask to see it but one of the ladies I work with says I can have animal control get the cat to see if it is mine! Why Why me!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Time to rest?
The kids are grown and gone, well sort of, so you think things should be peaceful and a good night's sleep should be a sure thing!!!! Forget it. Having a job that has you on call, ready to work for 24 hours straight, requires you to cherish sleep when you can get it. You can ask my daughter, ALF, how important it is not to wake Mom if she is sleeping.
Given the above I found myself on call one Sunday but home by 7:00pm so when I went to sleep at 11:00pm I thought this was a good call!
Lola, our rescued Vizsla, awakens me at 2:15am crying to go out so I figure she needs to relieve herself and I get up to let her out! Our backyard is sort of fenced in but the dogs can get out if they walk in the stream to the neighbor's yard, so that is what I guess Lola decided to do. I start calling her but to no avail! I am on call so I can't leave the house to go driving around in case they call me. I have to wake my husband to see if he can find her! Mind you it is now 2:50am and he is driving around the neighborhood calling the dog! We live on a country road with only a few other houses so I start to figure someone is going to call the police saying there is a truck driving around casing the houses. This could get ugly! Finally at around 3:30am after two runs around the neighborhood Lola is found walking down the street like it is 10 in the morning and nothing is wrong in the world!
Back in bed at 3:35am my husband says to me do you think you are going to get back to sleep? I just lay there with my eyes wide open praying!
Given the above I found myself on call one Sunday but home by 7:00pm so when I went to sleep at 11:00pm I thought this was a good call!
Lola, our rescued Vizsla, awakens me at 2:15am crying to go out so I figure she needs to relieve herself and I get up to let her out! Our backyard is sort of fenced in but the dogs can get out if they walk in the stream to the neighbor's yard, so that is what I guess Lola decided to do. I start calling her but to no avail! I am on call so I can't leave the house to go driving around in case they call me. I have to wake my husband to see if he can find her! Mind you it is now 2:50am and he is driving around the neighborhood calling the dog! We live on a country road with only a few other houses so I start to figure someone is going to call the police saying there is a truck driving around casing the houses. This could get ugly! Finally at around 3:30am after two runs around the neighborhood Lola is found walking down the street like it is 10 in the morning and nothing is wrong in the world!
Back in bed at 3:35am my husband says to me do you think you are going to get back to sleep? I just lay there with my eyes wide open praying!
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