(cats, observe, 354defeat, weather, yard, health)

[elainegrey]

Christine is being particularly thoughtful as we approach holidays, it seems. She encouraged me to buy one of the giant pomegranates at the grocery last week, and i have been enjoying the glistening red jewels with my breakfast since then.

I had a weird issue with firefox browser: i have apparently grown to depend on typing a code -- the title of a bookmark -- into the address bar and having it quickly populate with the details. Or type a domain and the familiar resource popped up. It stopped for a while, and i had some frustrating trouble shooting and even more frustration with a support form mis-fire that lost my careful documentation of all my troubleshooting efforts. It's back now. It felt like stumbling around in the dark without it; i am so delighted to have the efficiency back.

We expect a good bit of rain overnight through Wednesday: so glad. Not only is there a drought but i think a dead deer by the road might be stinking up the area. Wednesday i will go pick up my trees and shrubs and it looks like i will get to plant them in the rain. But it's not raining yet, here on Tuesday morning, despite the prediction. That's good because Christine is wrangling pets to the vet.

Because Luigi screams in what seems like pain when i try to work on his belly mats (which i have misspelled as "matts" on the photo for the vet), we are having him sedated and his belly and leg pits shaved. My hope is i can keep him groomed after this. I assume part of the pain is the pulling of the hair in the mats. I know this is ridiculous pet care privilege, but it is also spousal mental health care and relationship care because Christine becomes so agitated listening to Luigi scream.

Not sure what to do with the sinuses, which are back to producing a slightly green mucus. And occasional headache. How soon can i ask for more antibiotics?

> To get relief from sinus infection symptoms you can use nasal decongestant sprays, oral and topical antihistamines, nasal steroids and nasal saline washes.

I'm not using a decongestant but i don't *feel* congested, but i don't know what a normal congested nose feels like.

Hrm.

Comments

[ofearthandstars]

I think the sedation sounds like a good idea if it helps get Luigi back to regular grooming, and if it sounds painful, then I'd err on the side of not eliciting that, too. I have to get Yoshi groomed every 6 weeks or so to keep her hair and nails in check (she doesn't have "fur" so much as her coat is very fine and silky and tangles SO easily). It's an enormous amount of pampering and the cost is outrageous but it keeps us all happy.

I'm so happy to have the rain!! It gives me good excuse to make chili and soup this week, too.

[amaebi]

Unpleasant to plant in the rain, but of course awfully good for the trees.

As for Luigi: it's more important that Luigi be matless and groomed than that you do it yourself. I hope that the aid of the shave will get things set for easy, or anyway plausible home grooming. But I think it's very proper to get Luigi taken care of without distressing any of the three of you.

[tamena]

also on the Luigi front - corn starch is an amazing dematting tool, work it into any mat you find and it will help loosen it enough to comb out.
Keeping everyone sane is never a bad thing, critters can certainly be DRAMATIC and it doesn't help anybody. (glaring at the small white fluffy thing who likes to sound like a monkey to vocalize his displeasure at anything)

[amaebi]

I adore pomegranates, and/so I marvel at your vey moderate consumption of it.