Kittens

My grand daughter has been taking care of a pregnant stray cat. Since she already has two cats according to her apartment's rules she cannot have another. She tried to find a shelter that would take the cat ( very nice, very friendly and still quite young) but the shelters would abort the kittens and Lili would have none of that!  But they would accept the cat after the kittens were born, foster the little family and then adopt them out.

Lili was ok with that... took the cat to the vet to make sure all was well and prepared to wait. Well... she didn't have to wait long!!

The Mama cat was not happy to have Lili leave her while the kittens were being born... so there Lili sat.  There are now 6 little ones - 1 black, 2 black and white and three calicos. Mama did a great job though Lili said she was almost sick when the cat ate the placentas.  Mama cat is feeding and cleaning them now!!

 After several days of hot weather...  the temps dropped and it rained AGAIN. The lower temps will probably last through the weekend. 

A local plant grower has plants and a big tent in the parking lot of our closest grocery store ... and will be there for at least a month more. So I went out today and bought more flowers and grasses and herbs to plant in my boxes on the deck and in pots in front of our front steps.   The geranium I bought earlier is sending out loads of flowers and buds!!

Doctor's offics says "OK"!

 Bob  heard from the doctor's office this morning... his blood had been tested for tick diseases and came back negative! Hooray!   But we will keep an eye on ourselves for any new bites... it seems like there are more ticks this year.

We spent more time on our daughter's basement project this weekend.  She plans on painting the ceiling this coming weekend with a paint sprayer. She has ordered full cover Tyvek suits for herself and Bob. Will be interesting..

It has rained everyday ... sometimes heavily... sometimes just misting.  But today it was dry enough to mow our backyard.  I see trails of ants all over trying to find somewhere dry enough to put their eggs. Sometimes we even find them in the mailbox!  Bob gets rid of them there and receives thanks from the  mailman!!

Forgot to post so this is now Tuesday ( the next day)

Bob is going to finish his antibiotic prescription even though the test results were good! 

We took a trip this morning  to several thrift stores to drop off the latest "get rid ofs"!  I consider that a win!!  And with things staying dry, Bob is mowing the front yard.

We did set a "record"... this is the first year that we have turned on the air conditioner in May. It is set high but it will make things less humid/muggy!! Of course I hope that this will not jinx things and we will not get frost !

"Looking better !" he says

I have been taking daily pictures of Bob's tick bite ...He says it is looking better. I am not so sure but since we have had no follow up call from the doctor we are assuming that his tick wasn't a really bad one.  Bob is taking his pills and wearing loose socks  ( bite was where the elastic top on a sock is - above the ankle).

So fingers crossed...

tick bite

 Bob was bitten by a tick about a week ago. It was attached and sucking blood when he tried to remove it. He was not successful in getting all of it.. the head remained. He cleaned things up... added an antibiotic cream etc. But it did not get better. When I saw the large red area I insisted he go to the doctor.
The doctor and his nurse said I was right to insist. The red area was a type of blood poisoning. They took blood and prescribed an antibiotic pill  twice a day.  

When the blood tests come  back the doctor will know what type of tick and what to do next. Some are very serious... here's hoping Bob's tick was not!

BTW ... he wasn't out "in the woods" or anyplace unusual ... just in our daughter's back yard!! Her dogs are protected from ticks... Bob was not!!

All day rain... pouring !

 It poured all day long... well there were a few moments when it didn't but they were few and far between!!  The Kansas City Star sent out warnings of flash flooding!  The map showed a huge region from SW KC to the eastern edges of KC along the I-70 corridor.

Our backyard currently has what we call the "swimming pool" .... large areas of standing water !! Our property slopes from front to back so the backyard ends up with loads and loads of water.  Things are too wet for the water to soak in or flow into our neighbors' yards!!

made it to the end

 Well... made it through the three days of doubled lasiks... successfully... with many many trips to the bathroom!! The scale is happy with the results too.

Yesterday was a busy day too with Bob, my two daughters and me working on house and yard projects. They finally got all the mesh hardware cloth down at the bottom of the wooden yard fence... to keep the two dogs from digging their way out!!

I worked on cutting down all the volunteer bushes and vines growing up the walls - outside on the garage. I was going to cut and put everything into yard waste bags this morning but it has POURED  all day!

After this was done we all spent some time  getting the basement ready for spraying the ceiling... it is going to be a sewing room, laundry etc. Hopefully the white ceiling and colorful walls will make the room lighter and more inviting.

After this and some talk time out on the deck, Carolyn went home to see how her son/ our grandson tolerated his first covid vaccine. Dom is almost 15 and the CDC opened vaccinations up to those over 12.  He has been waiting ... being the last one in the family to be able to receive the vaccination!!

Laurel made dinner and after eating we headed home ready to collapse!  There were texts going back and forth this morning on all our aches and pains!!

dreams

I have aphib and other heart issues so I keep track of my weight... if it makes a 5 lb jump I assume I am retaining water. Well it did and I was also getting out of breath when walking into a store etc. My cardiologist upped my lasik, metropolol and potassium for three days....leads to lots of "peeing" and dreams.... finally got to the point, right?  

That addition of pills leads to weird dreams. In the last dream I spent what seemed like hours trying to peel hard boiled eggs  and chop black olives to make egg and black olive salad sandwiches. To add to it all I wasn't sure the eggs were hard boiled!  I finally told myself that everything was fine and that was the end of the dream!!