Six Words Saturday

Weather permitting, Monkey’s Mitzvah spot: Sea!
(Taken with my spiffmo new smartphone.)

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Planning the next Bat Mitzvah

Oy.
In September of next year, Monkeyface will be 13 and will become Bat Mitzvah. Plans have been brewing pretty much since the last movie, but you know when best laid plans go awry? Back to the drawing board.
I grew up attending a Conservative congregation, and I was Bat Mitzvahed with a (very nice, nasal,  and [...]

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If this helps save ONE pet, this letter must be read

Tomorrow morning, I’ll be sending out the following letter to the local veterinary board. We’ve written and rewritten it, and come to this extremely factual, to-the-point description of what happened, and of the blame we believe rests on our local vet.
It’s been three weeks now since Shem died, and we really miss him.
Dear State Board [...]

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Sad Things Tuesday

Last evening, it became increasingly apparent that Shem had reached the point where any further efforts to bring him back from the brink were moot. The decline we’ve seen in the last 24 hours is dramatic.  Aside from refusing to drink, or eat, he avoids the bathroom where Bob had been force feeding him, and [...]

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Fighting for Shem

So we spoke to a holistic vet (she isn’t taking new patients) around here – she only called Bob back this morning ( after receiving the detailed medical file yesterday and a request for a consultation) because a colleague of Bob’s just happened to have brought her dog to this DVM at 8, who asked [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: life with dogs

This post is a reprint from the early days of my blog, just after now 2 1/2 year-old Sephira came into our lives. With the filter of the almost pathos I have been writing through, I’ve been locked in the sad and melancholy.   I’d like to remember this, the joy of my dogs, our [...]

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Breaking the News to the Girls

Shem’s other two family members are in camp for the summer.
Since our dog got very sick, we’ve had various discussions about how to tell the girls, and came to recognize there wasn’t any good way, just that it had to be done, and before we saw them in Ottawa in two weeks’ time. Ruling out [...]

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Circle of life

We picked up Mr. Shem at the vet’s and he rode home in the back with Bob, who wept most of the way home. I drove and wiped my eyes on my sleeve.  Reality is seriously fucked up; suddenly, the world is a different color.  Puce, maybe?
The sun is out for the first time in [...]

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Ten Things Tues, er Wednesday 2

Whole chucks of time have disappeared lately and I’m busy enough that not only have I not been visiting other blogs much, I haven’t had time to write. I am hopeful that things will shift soon so I can be more of a presence here and your sites.
1.My niece’s Bat Mitzvah was wonderful.  Decked out [...]

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It IS a small world

After a week of the creeping crud, I am back almost as new.  This virus was a pisser, though, so if any of you have aches, sore throat, sore eyeballs (yeah, yeah, I know there are no nerve endings in eyeballs – the muscles around the eyeballs, ok?) and generally feel like crap on a [...]

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