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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Home

Home is where the cat is... Home is where you make your own rules... Home is where you can relax... Well, here I am, home. My plants did not get properly watered, and the rose is a mess of rotted buds and broken and rusty leaves. Several plants, if they were watered at all, were not near watered enough. *sigh* Violetta is fine, well-fed, and glad to see me back where I belong, her personal warm spot. The fish are all still swimming. Charlie wasn't able to be at the airport, but came over this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 1, 2014

Again...

Packing... again. Getting ready to go to the airport... again. Preparing for the journey through gates and corridors and escalators going-up and on-the-flat... again. Stopping for a spicy salad at California Burrito... again. Waiting... again for the same flight, 6349 to be delayed... again. At least this time, I won't be bumping myself voluntarily... again. Ripley has an appointment several days early, to get the surgical staples removed from his knee, but will have to remain in his quiet-time... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Ripley and Cooper

Just a few more pictures before, hopefully, flying out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Dogs and luggage

Dogs know when someone is leaving for a while: they understand what luggage means. Their behavior can reflect their sadness even before someone leaves, just because the luggage has come out of the closet and is headed towards the door. We are doing our best to de-sensitize Marika's dogs to the Ominous Luggage. We left again, lugging the luggage, for the second time... drove away... and came back again. Yes... back again. The flight was delayed again, though only an hour... then, another hour and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 28, 2014

A few more shots before leaving.

My elder daughter has got a new kitten... And a few more plants caught my eye, too. https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 26, 2014

A quiet day with sunshine

It started grey, but towards noon the grey burned off and the sun lit up the flowers and lawns. We walked down to a nice French bakery/restaurant and shared two tartines. One was turkey over mashed avocado--Marika says this is something that seems popular over the pond--with cucumber over top, and some thin-sliced carrot. The other: smoked salmon with dill and scallions, and slices of avocado. These are delicate open-faced sandwiches, crustless. Ripley is doing well: swelling has gone down and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

another update: here, another 5 days

While she was trying to manage Ripley's needs this morning, and finding things very awkward and stressful, Marika asked if I could stay a few days longer. So--I have a new reservation for next Tuesday. She's paying the change costs... another reason I choose Southwest, if there is a choice: no change fees, as well as two free checked bags. Now that's settled, she has relaxed, and gone off to work. Ripley has removed his ear-crushing collar, and I won't put it back on him unless he starts... Sign in to see full entry.

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Day after surgery

Ripley is snoring softly in his crate and in his collar, sedated for the next 4 hours or so. The first night home, he could not climb the stairs to where he usually sleeps by Marika's bed, so she shifted her bedding to the couch downstairs. Cooper slept on my bed behind my knees. That dog is a sound-sleeping mini-mountain! He favors the center of the bed, so anyone else has to kind of work around him. One of the cats slept not in his favorite nest upstairs, in a valley between two bed-pillows,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Ripley's home

...in his crate with the blanket overtop to make it more den-like. He is wearing the infamous Cone, and panting hard. He can't be any too comfortable, now he is recovery mode with staples in his leg for the next week or so. The panting is not from heat, the house is air conditioned, so I fear it may be his manner of coping with pain and a certain degree of distress. The next two weeks will be the hardest. Oh, did I hear someone ask why I am also back in the house, when I was supposed to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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all my bags are packed...

Everything I need is stowed, ready to go. This is the last time, most likely, that I will see this house. They will sell it in September, just over 2 years since they bought it, which means great tax savings: under 2 years, and the government considers it 'flipped.' That makes it capital gains, I guess. They did improve it, but not for the sake of profit. Of course, they can't buy a new place in England (somewhere near Manchester) until this sells. She has a real estate paper here, considering... Sign in to see full entry.

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