some old kitten shots...and of course, the dogs

 

not sure what Ivy was up to here. i feel badly for her because at this point her leg is starting to really bother her.  we have over a month to wait. she still wants to walk, so i take her walking...but she pays dearly for it. 

sadly it's what i needed to have happen...but now she will suffer a bit with it because i hesitated. the choices are not good though.  put her down, make her suffer or pay the money for surgery and deal with the rehab. she is scheduled and i have time off.  some anxiety as i've never put a dog through a major surgery like this with all the rehab it will entail. it will pain me to watch her go through it. she will not understand what is happening to her. 

this little guy just keeps growing.  he seems to be spending much more time inside,which i love.  he is getting on well with the dogs and the other feline, Miss Breezy Chatterbug.  i've neglected her a bit as well.  i need to get her in for a check up and vaccines. 

on the plus side, she seems to be getting more and more confident. it's been great to see her following Covid Cats lead and heading downstairs more.  he's brought new life to her and to the rest of the household. 

he's been great during this time of Covid.  these are all shots from April of this year. i may have put some in already.  it's tough to tell from the little note cards i have here.  it looks like April pretty much just got missed.  not sure what pictures i posted or if i just rarely posted. 

i think we were all in a bit of a state. not knowing what was coming.  

it for sure feels less raw and less scary overall.  we are part way in.  

i guess this was Covid Cats first moose. we had another out there recently that he was watching...there has been one around the tree nibbling this week though. i can see the moose prints in the snow.

it's been snowing off and on today.  i got some shoveling done. i did a few errands over the last few days.  i can only do so much and then i'm drained.  with the minimal light you feel like it's much later than it is and your body wants to shut down early

the weeks off go too fast. i do have the Christmas packages/cards sent off so i can just do some local stuff.  i will be working much of the holiday, one break before Christmas...so i am not sure i have anything planned. i think i half planned it that way in case the Covid stuff gets much worse.  we should be starting to see the Thanksgiving sharing of Covid about now.  

today the Valley had more new + cases than Anchorage....that is pretty landmark...considering how much smaller their population is.  there is a remote area that is apparently having very high numbers as well. Soldotna numbers are increasing as well.  the Valley and Soldotna are full of anti-maskers/trumpers so i think we all knew it was a matter of time before their attitudes and conspiracy crack caught up with them on this. 

funny discussion today.  someone had written something about leaving a glass in the sink had caused his divorce.  made me laugh.  many just said how inconsiderate it is to leave the glass, that somehow it's a sign that the guy didn't appreciate her.  i, i guess as usual, had some opinions on the matter.

there is often some who can leave a dish in the sink for a bit and others who can't stand it.  for those who can't stand it they will invariably just wash the dish while seething at the person who left it there. the fact is, it doesn't bother some people to leave a dish or two in the sink and it makes others nuts.  so the one it makes nuts cleans it and then gets mad.  is it our fault that they can't stand that dish in the sink and clean it before we get to it. my dishes always get cleaned eventually.  

also i have found that many of those neurotic dish washers are very particular about how those dishes are cleaned or how the dishwasher is loaded.  so you can be in a no win situation.  if you leave it they are pissed but if you clean up and fill the dishwasher they will give snide remarks about how incorrectly you did it, or that you missed a spot...or whatever.  so in that scenario over time do you wash the dish and deal with rude remarks about how you did it or just let them wash them. really a no win.

also i will trash my kind on this one a bit too...i find many females start out relationships doing much of what was once deemed "womens work".  they want to take care of their man as it were. then they have kids or their job/school gets more busy and rather than say to the guy that they are busy and need help they just stew about it and then become more and more resentful.  i can't really blame the guy that much...as many times the tasks were divided out and these women selected these tasks.  many men are not mind readers...most of us aren't.  hell if someone just keeps doing the dishes/laundry and whatever and never asks you to do it....well it is easy to believe that they want to do it since they've never complained to you. 

so speak up...yes, it would be fabulous if guys just magically picked up on your non-cues but often times they don't. 

anxiety today...it can be a bit unpredictable since this all started.  despite that i got out and got a few errands run and got the dogs walked. 

it's fun to walk in the snow. today we just did a few loops around Cheney Lake. it was on the way between errands.  there were more folks out there than i expected. weather doesn't much slow down Alaskans i find. 

yesterday, we did the Rovers Run loop.  not a weekend crowd.  the trails have been way more busy since Covid hit.  still more than there would have been a few years ago out there.  so odd really.  i guess it's good, but i do miss having less out there. the bikers have really come out strong.  a few skiers. 

i really should get out on my ski's at some point.  need to dig out my shoes still. 

i think the roads were a bit crap in some places today.  so i just did the errands and then headed home.  

the cookies from our cancelled lecture

haven't done much with ashes of late. this whole year has just been so odd

every day is still crazy crap with the right.  they are still trying to say it was all fraud and fake and that Trump will be potus for the next 4 years not Biden.  there are jobs in high positions being ditched and young, inexperienced people being put in.  there are lawsuits that get lost by the right...they are still just trying to toss everything they can at the wall in hopes to get one to the Supreme Court figuring he put in 3 and they will rule in his favor.  i'm not sure any of us really are sure that they will do what is right or are more loyal to this craziness at this point. 

the GOP seems more divided.  the power hungry fools are terrified to tell the emperor he has no clothes because he has such a hold on his cult like followers, who believe all the conspiracy crack and have grown more and more incapable of seeing facts.  they are more willing to believe bizarre, crazy conspiracies than anything rational and sensible. 

that is the state of our nation at this time.  insanity has not been reigned in yet.  

funny how small Covi Cat is.....he is quite the full sized cat now.

Ivy got her head caught in this cat tent. haha.  so sad.

a new laser light arrived for the males of the house...they are the ones who love the laser.  

i snuck out with Tusker and a laser to check the mail...made him run all over the street in the snow chasing the light.  he was thrilled. 

may be one way i keep him entertained while Ivy heals post op.

i don't wear the hair cover...it just had gotten to be too much really with the n95 and the face shield. i have a small head too so i often have trouble keeping these surgical hats on. 

we took the cookies in to work...so here are a few of my work mates happily eating the walrus cookies.  i  have some great co-workers in all the various units. 

chocolate chip cookies tonight.  my brother made some recently and posted about it on fb....so it had to be done.  have been thinking of making some ice cream. i'm still learning how in my new ice cream maker machine. 

look at this sweet kitten!!

we have many rooms in the hospital that have been transformed into negative pressure rooms...in the Er you never really know who will be + but in the other units they do try to keep covid + patients in these rooms.  this meant putting these holes in what used to be windows.  i really thought it would make work much colder...perhaps the heating bill is much higher. once you get all gowned and gloved and masked and shielded up...you are sweating in these rooms anyway. so now i suspect it must be terrible in the south where it got humid in the summer. 

hospitals always have some negative pressure rooms to deal with TB patients.  we've needed many more for this though. 

i head back for my stretch tomorrow night.  boo.  a lot happens on my days off, the numbers go up.  the admissions go up, the ventilator numbers go up. the ER gets more crazy. i hear of co-workers who are out, were out, were quarantined, or were ill with this.  

i am hearing they are now saying only one pair of gloves...getting low? 

me and my girl. 

i ate early today...snacks or a late meal.  hmm. not sure yet.

he early on was comfortable in the space and with the dogs.  

he just moved in and decided it was his place.  now he just seems more comfortable.  

she has liked the new toys and places to hang out. 

it's after 11, no nap today...so hard not to have an evening nap these days.  i feel pretty spunky though. 

look at that fearless kitten!!

me in the spring...i took off a few inches of that hair a few weeks back. 

so happy to have this little guy in the house and for all the furs.  they really do make life bearable.  

i really hope Ivy's surgery makes a huge difference in her quality of life. i'm very attached to her...to all of them and i want them to be happy and healthy.  it's so hard to see them struggle. she's been very brave though. 

thankful for:  A. snow falling, it's so beautiful and peaceful  B. getting through so much of this year despite all the insanity  C. the best co-workers a girl could ask for...and the best room mates.  they leave me messes all the time, i clean them up and i do not resent them for it.  :-)