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Had to have one of my recently adopted stray/abandoned kitties put to sleep today.

Ole Tux was a good cat. Way too sweet and trusting to be a feral, he had to be abandoned. He always liked sitting on my lap whenever I was in front of the computer. Only really had him for a couple of months, but the visit to the vet today showed me that he was far sicker than what I expected, and was just starting to circle the drain. His remaining days would have been full of suffering, so I had him put down.

Godspeed, little buddy.
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Renzatic said:
Had to have one of my recently adopted stray/abandoned kitties put to sleep today.

Ole Tux was a good cat. Way too sweet and trusting to be a feral, he had to be abandoned. He always liked sitting on my lap whenever I was in front of the computer. Only really had him for a couple of months, but the visit to the vet today showed me that he was far sicker than what I expected, and was just starting to circle the drain. His remaining days would have been full of suffering, so I had him put down.

Godspeed, little buddy.
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Iā€™m so sorry for your loss. My beloved cat Hunter passed away in September, 19 years old. He had a very long life for a catā€¦
 
Renzatic said:
Had to have one of my recently adopted stray/abandoned kitties put to sleep today.

Ole Tux was a good cat. Way too sweet and trusting to be a feral, he had to be abandoned. He always liked sitting on my lap whenever I was in front of the computer. Only really had him for a couple of months, but the visit to the vet today showed me that he was far sicker than what I expected, and was just starting to circle the drain. His remaining days would have been full of suffering, so I had him put down.

Godspeed, little buddy.
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What a beautiful kitty. He was lucky to land with someone could help him across the last bridge...
 
Renzatic said:
Had to have one of my recently adopted stray/abandoned kitties put to sleep today.

Ole Tux was a good cat. Way too sweet and trusting to be a feral, he had to be abandoned. He always liked sitting on my lap whenever I was in front of the computer. Only really had him for a couple of months, but the visit to the vet today showed me that he was far sicker than what I expected, and was just starting to circle the drain. His remaining days would have been full of suffering, so I had him put down.

Godspeed, little buddy.
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My condolences as well.
 
We got new windows installed today, and my god! I had no idea how bad the old ones had gotten.

Itā€™s not just that the old ones werenā€™t insulating us well against the weather, they werenā€™t insulating us well from sound, either. Itā€™s a little eerie. All of a sudden the house is so quiet I feel like Iā€™m inside a bank vault.

Without the money of course.
 
Tonight Iā€™m going to the wake of a customer of the place where I used to work. She was one of those batshit conspiracy theorists, but she was also very nice and a customer I dealt with for 20 years.
 
Quiet on our anniversary day (11th year of marriage, 25th anniversary of meeting will be in September). Anniversary dinner of Pork Chops, lime cilantro rice and roasted asparagus being prepped.

Finalized plans for our trip to Puerto Rico come November, while cancelling a long anticipated trip to Europe next Summer. Don't want to deal with MAGA-Mango BS. And prepped packages for our return to NYC for the Summer. Can't wait to be out of Virginia. It's a bit hectic here with the upcoming primaries for Lt. Gov, AG and state offices. Ofc, we have to vote in NYC primaries as soon as we arrive home. Not looking forward to a possible Cuomo mayoralty.
 
Watching a robin fly in and out of a spruce tree... first nest may have been washed out in one of the fierce rainstorms we've been treated to lately. Upside of the storms for a robin having to rebuild is that there's probably no shortage of twigs and grasses lying about now, as if in a Home Depot for critters.
 
My wife has a big wreath made of twigs and fake flowers that she likes to hang on the front door in spring.

Birds love to hang around there because for them it is like a trip to Home Depot. Several times weā€™ve surprised each other when I open the door and their shopping trip is suddenly invaded by a human.

Iā€™m surprised that in their panic none of them have made their way into the house yet.
 
I'm disappointed that my feet, which have been failing me for a long time, have caused me to conclude I won't be able to stand with the protesters tomorrow at the local No Kings event.

I do plan, however, to drive down there and slow-drive past the protesters and wave and honk enthusiastically in support. I'll circle back multiple times.
 
Well, for the second time today I changed my avatar.

The Blue Beetle/Booster Gold one just seems too light-hearted for the times we are going through.

I tried changing it to an evil, Joker-looking Trump, but I also use the same avatar at Bluesky, and it dawned on me that I was just inviting some troll to report me for god knows what. So I figure this one expresses the same anti-authoritarian feeling but is safer.
 
Well, my gout receded enough for me to actually participate for a bit. So I went to the No Kings protest in a nearby city.

Finding parking was hell, and thanks to my meds I had to stop three times to take a leak šŸ¤·, but I drove among the protesters four times honking my approval, and when I did find parking I got out for a bit and took some video.

There was no trouble, and the mood was very upbeat. šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

Iā€™m back now watching the Philadelphia main event being live-streamed on YouTube.
 
Yesterday I attended one of the July 17 protests. Some younger people there for a change. And quite a few veterans, children of veterans and grandchildren of veterans. Theyā€™re pissed too. WWII vets didnā€™t fight Nazis just to see them flourish at home.
 
I've started the annual re-ups of the pantry for winter. Around here August might have hot days but the nights are chilly and the earlier sunsets are a reminder of chores that have nothing to do with summer picnics. Seasonal residents are dropping off excess produce from their gardens to the rest of us, as they prepare to become weekenders for awhile in advance of closing up their places in October or so. For those of us who live here year round, August becomes a month of cheap eats for sure, but also a reminder to take stock of what's in the cupboard for the snow season.

Anyway a good day in the winter re-ups department is when the UPS guy brings the parcel round to the back porch as requested. A nice start to the weekend. Yesterday's haul was (another) lifetime supply of 100-ct boxes of pour-over coffee filters, and a hefty stack of shelf-stable tofu boxes, handy for adding to broth-based vegetable soups in winter. Both of those items originated in the USA and I was happy to see they cost roughly what they did last year, so no tariff-related hits to the budget.
 
Iā€™ve spent a few hours each day, all this week, working on removing my wifeā€™s vegetable garden from the side of our house.

Iā€™ve been trying to get her to let me do it since last year. Weā€™re getting older; weā€™re slower and we have back problems. So maintaining a pair of 4ā€™x6ā€™ boxes has become too much.

This year I wanted to remove the wooden boxes in the spring, because they were DIY projects that were literally falling apart. My wife made me hold off, sure that she was still going to plant something.

Well, as summer wore on, we grew a lovely, thick crop of large weeds, including milkweeds. Itā€™s this garden Iā€™ve been ā€œharvestingā€ all week.

Iā€™m getting it down to the bare topsoil finally, but there are still deep roots to pull, random garden decorations to be removed and some grass cutting to do around it. Then weā€™ve got to get a new delivery of dirt, plane it and plant grass seed. That last part may have to wait for spring.

But thank God for the wonderfully cooperative weather.
 
Things I wish Iā€™d said after it was too late:

My wife is in for a colonoscopy. As they called her in I watched her walk toward the door and playfully called, ā€œHave fun!ā€

Then I thought to add, ā€œTake pictures!ā€ But by then she was gone.
 
Thomas Veil said:
Things I wish Iā€™d said after it was too late:

My wife is in for a colonoscopy. As they called her in I watched her walk toward the door and playfully called, ā€œHave fun!ā€

Then I thought to add, ā€œTake pictures!ā€ But by then she was gone.
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I've always emphasized to my gastroenterology friends that I'd rather smell cologne than colon.
 
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