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Saturday, July 8, 2017

Shiny!

I promised myself I might go this evening to a poetry reading/open mic event on campus, and was disappointed when I realized at 8:10 that I'd forgotten about it starting at 7:30. I had thought maybe I'd take a poem and read at the open mic but now I'd show up when it was nearly over: I'd missed the chance. Feeling let down, I went back online and there was a notice in my email about it, and it said the event was going on until 10! So... should I go, should I not? If I did, should I read? I could... Sign in to see full entry.

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back to the vet, back to the first family

We started the morning with a trip to the vet for a steroid shot which should encourage her appetite for the next several weeks. She doesn't like car travel, but doesn't seem to mind the shot. And Bunnabee is returning to her previous home this afternoon. She has been good for me, as far as getting me active trying to keep up with her requirements, but it seems to me she needs to be among other bunnykind who will play with her as much as she wants to play. I don't think the stress on Embers is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 7, 2017

Attack of the chainsaws

Since I have lived here, I've enjoyed the view out back of the tall Chinese elm rooted two yards away. I've watched the squirrels race around and chase each other, seen a flock of robins hanging out, watched the tree itself whip in the windstorms we get from time to time... And today, they are cutting it down. Just last summer I took note of how the sun shone through its leaves in the morning, and how lovely it was tossing back the afternoon light. It kept the mornings just a little cooler a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Flowers and a little drama...

Today I drove around the Mountain Shadows neighborhood that was so hard-hit by the Waldo Canyon fire five years ago. I took pictures during the year after in this same area, though different angles. It was the storm clouds that drew me, driving along and looking for a good place to catch them with the camera. That being just down the road from Garden of the Gods, I went on there as well, but traffic was not kind to photographers. The shot of the day--because I didn't know I'd gotten it until I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Here it comes...

While it is not strictly speaking legal to have private fireworks of a certain size, nor to set them off except on July 4, throughout American neighborhoods there have been fireworks as loud as bombs going off all this past month. At first, just the occasional, unexpected, startling BOOM! but these increase as the 4th approaches. Last night was pretty noisy. Tonight they will let out all the stops. I keep the fan running alongside music. I think tonight it will be CARMINA BURANA. From the deck... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 2, 2017

You might need a map...

So much driving! After taking the longer, slower route up to Bailey--via I-25 to hwy 85 to I-240 then up into the mountains on 285, instead of high-speed busy Interstate all the way, I picked up my friend and we headed back to the Springs via Hwy 67 which led us along forest roads, unpaved and some alarmingly unsmooth, by many ups and downs and windings, to connect with I-24 at Woodland Park, thence down into the Springs. Our plan for Saturday was to drive up Pike's Peak. Then back on 67 towards... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Guest room

is open again for a friend coming down from the mountains to spend overnight and most of tomorrow. She has had many critters in her care over the course of a life as long as mine, and is not perturbed by a bunny in the house. I got busy and swabbed that bathroom floor this morning, so the bathroom is as nice as it has been in a long time! She and I were in high school together, and her house was on the way to mine. I stopped to visit for a while every day because her mom and grandma were so... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Tuesday... Is it still Tuesday...?

Temperatures rising... but maybe storms later to cool off the afternoon. Under all the neighborhood trees there are green shadows... the fragments of leaves torn off by yesterday's hail. Embers had a quick trip to the vet, got hydrated (subcutaneous water injection) and though he was not officially 'in' today, her vet showed up and took a look in her mouth. Her throat and back teeth are the problem this time, inflamed. This would explain why she has been finding it hard to eat and drink. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 26, 2017

All Hail!

We just had a tree-shredding hailstorm, ice bombs an inch or more in diameter! I held a plastic tub lid over me while I went to put a couple of screens over the back porch plants, brought a couple inside. That stuff hurts when it hits! I went out to look over the front from the deck and Charlie had very quickly and cleverly tossed a foam floor mat over most of the windshield. And, man was it loud! It made such a racket on the roof! And outside, it was drumming on all the roofs in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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I would write and comment more...

but lately, there is so often a cat sleeping on me, cuddled against me between me and the keyboard. I can read, but commenting or writing anything means disrupting her nap, and no one wants that. In fact, she isn't responding well to her meds this time. And there is Bunnabee to add to the household stress, which may be a factor. Perhaps there is some secondary infection that the steroids don't handle. Looks like another vet trip this week, if things don't improve. It is another lovely day here:... Sign in to see full entry.

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