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Moo is at the vet for a biopsy of a flaky patch on her forehead, as well as a dental cleaning, so please send your good thoughts this way. It will take a while to get results and these things are usually benign, but sometimes they aren't and I always worry when they're under anesthesia. It's been a hard week for many of our hobbit posse kitties!
Otherwise, things are OK, just hectic with trying to unpack and get the garden planted. And I've put a priority on sleep to fix all the aches I acquired moving. I still need to get myself back to swimming which will heal all, just trying to find the time. I've already been hit up to pet sit for 2 neighbors last week, which had me grumbly because still hectic and overwhelmed here, but they are good people I want to start on the right foot with because neighbor friends are the best kind, and their pets are much less labor intensive than my crew.
And I got to spend Saturday night with a REAL fox a few weekends ago, so my social life is undoubtedly better than yours! It was just before dark and I was planting a mountain laurel bush and I spotted said fox ambling down the garden path behind the neighbors yard toward mine, so I stood very still with joy. She was a big one with a lovely red coat, black stockings, and a fluffy tail. She came to about 10 feet of me when she noticed me, looked up at me for a few moments, then detoured into the woods beside us to make a circle around me and came back out onto the lawn of my yard about a dozen feet behind me, plopped herself down on her butt and commenced scratching her ear with her hind foot on and off while watching me, probably testing to see if I was threat or safe. I stood looking at her over my shoulder and chatting to her in the high little Disney voice critters tend to like. This went on for several minutes, then she got up with a comical little side kick and continued on her way, stopped behind a bush on the border between my yard and the next, and I think watched me some more, and then went on her way. It was a pretty magical experience and just the very kind of encounter I was hoping to eventually have in my yard. There are many foxes in the neighborhood--I've seen them crossing the streets here often and a neighbor says there is a fox den in the woods not far from my yard, so I hope I meet her and her family again and that this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship with these fluffy neighbors.
Happy Froday to ya'll!
Otherwise, things are OK, just hectic with trying to unpack and get the garden planted. And I've put a priority on sleep to fix all the aches I acquired moving. I still need to get myself back to swimming which will heal all, just trying to find the time. I've already been hit up to pet sit for 2 neighbors last week, which had me grumbly because still hectic and overwhelmed here, but they are good people I want to start on the right foot with because neighbor friends are the best kind, and their pets are much less labor intensive than my crew.
And I got to spend Saturday night with a REAL fox a few weekends ago, so my social life is undoubtedly better than yours! It was just before dark and I was planting a mountain laurel bush and I spotted said fox ambling down the garden path behind the neighbors yard toward mine, so I stood very still with joy. She was a big one with a lovely red coat, black stockings, and a fluffy tail. She came to about 10 feet of me when she noticed me, looked up at me for a few moments, then detoured into the woods beside us to make a circle around me and came back out onto the lawn of my yard about a dozen feet behind me, plopped herself down on her butt and commenced scratching her ear with her hind foot on and off while watching me, probably testing to see if I was threat or safe. I stood looking at her over my shoulder and chatting to her in the high little Disney voice critters tend to like. This went on for several minutes, then she got up with a comical little side kick and continued on her way, stopped behind a bush on the border between my yard and the next, and I think watched me some more, and then went on her way. It was a pretty magical experience and just the very kind of encounter I was hoping to eventually have in my yard. There are many foxes in the neighborhood--I've seen them crossing the streets here often and a neighbor says there is a fox den in the woods not far from my yard, so I hope I meet her and her family again and that this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship with these fluffy neighbors.
Happy Froday to ya'll!