Sep 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
do you know who he is? have you ever heard his stuff? have you ever SEEN HIM IN CONCERT? he’s a guitarist. he’s not just a guitarist, he’s the MOST AMAZING GUITARIST EVER. do you scoff? if so, you CLEARLY HAVEN’T HEARD/SEEN HIM. and...
Sep 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
whew, what a week. not sure how it got to be sunday already. yesterday was especially crazy, culminating in going to the hospital to see randy and his mom…she was taken to emergency yesterday morning and she’s going to have to have gallbladder surgery...
Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday ended up very badly. things were going so well, then yesterday afternoon i was making chinese food for dinner and was rushing around and realized shadow had thrown up yet again. that was…four days in a row. i called the vet, assuming she...
Sep 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
…and we took the bus. recap of the past five days: day one : 22 miles roundtrip to castle doune plus extra miles when we were lost. day two : 20 wet hilly miles to loch katrine and back. day three : 25 very hilly miles from Callander to Killin. day four: ...
Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning i gave shadow a little more pain medication. today he seems completely fine, and we’re pretty sure that’s why. he ate quite a bit of food…but will he keep it down? because i can tell he’s lost some weight, and when you only...
Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
i was sure that Shadow wasn’t going to live through the night. at some time around four he was finally lying down on the bedroom floor and i picked him up and carried him into bed with us. he was just lying there between us, and kevin pet him and i kept...
Sep 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
shadow didn’t have a very good day yesterday. when i woke up, kevin had had a terrible time trying to get shadow to take his big blue pill. he finally coerced him into taking it, but then he just didn’t want any food. kevin fixed him hamburger and eggs...
Sep 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
and it’s about time, i realize, to post more scotland photos. to recap: day one of biking: not that hard until we got lost. no rain while we biked. A circular route from Callander then back again. day two of biking: much harder, more hilly, gravelly bike...
Sep 15, 2009 | Anniversary!
unless you’re staying up later than me (highly likely), or you’re in another time zone and therefore definitely staying up later than me…unless it’s a later time zone…by now when you are reading this it will be september 16th, the THREE...
Sep 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
first of all, i heard shadow walking around so i got up to give him his blue pill, which he needs every morning an hour before he eats. went back to bed, and winston came in the doggie door. but something seemed a little odd. i said to kevin, “is he...
Sep 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
the vet called this afternoon. shadow has kidney failure. all the levels are bad – she explained about them being up, or down, but whatever, they’re just bad. so we took him in and learned how to give him subcutaneous fluids. we’re doing this...
Sep 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
even though shadow isn’t amy and jim’s dog anymore because they gave him to us for safekeeping a while ago, i feel like he still belongs to all of us. last month kevin took him to the vet and Shadow had some enlarged lymph nodes and he’d lost some...
Sep 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
the other day kevin brown asked me when i was going to post more photos of our trip. i felt like i’d been doing a very good job of posting them, but now i realize it’s been a while. i have a great deal of difficulty these days KEEPING UP with everything,...
