Posted on 07/31/2015 11:49:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
An ocelot in the zoo just has to wait for the meat to arrive in the bowl.
Oh, Thomas...that was BAD!! LOL!
So if you don't like leftovers, be a were-koala. Be a dangerous were-koala!
That was clever!
Hahaaa!
Koalas have very threatening claws.
There is good news and almost good news.
The ulcers have stopped bleeding and I’m hoping the doc doesn’t send me for another transfusion. It means at least four hours of doing nothing...
In other news, some people from the church (prayer works) came and said they would help me with the truck. At least the diagnosis of it. Only, when the one guy went home, he found that his book was ‘96 or later, so he didn’t have the right code for his diagnostic tool.
However, he said he may get the tool from someone else. Or the code. Or something.
I’m tired this morning, but that’s to be expected. I will have another ulcer cocktail soon. Then, two more today and that should be enough to heal the ulcers for one more round.
That’s all good news!
Our trip to the zoo was tiring. It is the largest walk-through zoo in the world, and walking to all the exhibits covers about five miles. Tom and I took turns carrying Kathleen when she got tired.
But did you take PICTURES?????
I haven’t been to the zoo since I was a brand new bride of 17, and we went to the San Diego Zoo.
When I was a toddler, we went to the Seattle Zoo (we were living in Alaska) and all I can remember are the elephants and cotton candy. I would NOT eat the cotton candy. I thought it was real cotton and my mother was trying to punish me. Haha... :o]
Both of my brothers had birthdays last week, and I gave them each the obligatory call, but got their voice mail. *sigh*
One interesting thing we saw was a domestic disturbance among the Pancake Tortoises. They are in a desert enclosure with the Uromastyx. A couple of tortoises mated, and then all the others got really confused and started chasing one another around. At one point, it looked like a couple were going to throw themselves off a rock ledge. (Some not-mine children were chanting, “Jump! Jump!”)
The tortoises kept running into the lizards, who looked disgusted. Tom watched the whole thing for a long time and was assigning names to the various tortoises when I told him it was time to move on to the Rainforest Aviary, which has Scarlet Ibis, my second-favorite bird after flamingos.
We used to go to the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park when we lived there from 1970 to 1975.
DP and Pat took pictures.
Wow. I can’t even imagine the mating of Pancake Tortoises. They must have started last week...
And of course, Tom WOULD assign names to everything. I bet they were funny names, too!
Pat took pictures in ‘75? He’s not that old, unless you neglected to tell us something...
Elen had a pair of small plastic amphibians named Greg and Leslie, with a long and sordid backstory. I told her to keep it to herself!
Their camp experiences have made them even more creative, yet tiresome.
Time travel ... this is Pat we’re talking about.
Ah. My bad.
I would have that same problem.
Probably going to die a crazy cat lady, I expect.
Bobbie update:
Bobbie is responding very well to her medications, and she is
acting more and more like herself. My total freak-out about
her illness has been well mollified, and she is in her usual spot,
sleeping at my feet. We are feeding her Royal Canin wet and
dry food, and she is much, much better.
Fortunately, she likes the Royal Canin Renal support kit of
cat foods that the vet gave us after her last checkup, that
she passed with flying colors.
But it’s time to start the laundry, so I wish you and all the
Undead Threaders a great day. Hope to be back later if I
can put down my Nikki Heat novels.
And get the dang laundry done, of course.
My last load is in the dryer, but another might appear before this is done.
I’m glad to know Bobbie is doing well. Shannon and Jake are annoyed with their diet. Shannon has eaten this morning and is sitting in the kitchen looking disgusted about something. Jake decided he wasn’t hungry enough to wait for breakfast and went off to bed. He’s been sleeping behind the plastic drawers of Kathleen’s clothes.
The savage koala:
LOL!
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