Oh by the way, did I mention

More ugly...

In the last post, I said that we gave the cats baths, but did I mention that we also shaved Cleo... we were pretty much sick and tired of picking up hairballs, so here she is, the new and improved, less hairy, but still very soft and lovable - Cleo!

you can see her hair is shorter here


but here is where you see why we (adam and I) were never graced with a groomer's license

Please forgive us...
This is what her hair used to look like... taken in the old house when we finished the attic

The good, the bad and the ugly

Ever noticed that many things may be so good, but so bad for you at the same time, or vice versa?!? I sometimes can't help but notice this

First the good... when I got to work, there was a gift there for me from a patient that I particularly remember because she was so ill... just a bad situation all in all, but apparently, my care and kindness really mattered to her and her family because her grandma made this for me.

something good from a bad situation. p.s. she is much better now

the bad: we are in desperate need of rain, our grass, plants and even some trees are dying at a rapid rate. the good in this, is that every time it even so much as sprinkles now, I rejoice, whereas usually I am in a foul mood whenever it rains. sometimes it takes the bad to bring out the good in something... (it doesn't help that I am really bad at remembering to water!)

the ugly: this is really just kind of funny. the cats needed baths so we finally did just that and bathed them yesterday. They look so ugly afterwards, like gremlins or moles or something... the good = they smell better and less hairballs show up around the house. the bad = they hate us for at least the rest of the day!

cleo was too elusive to catch a pic but we lucked out and got a pic of zeus staring me down. we imagine he is trying to decide how to kill us in our sleep...

this is the most we saw of either cleo or zeus for a good length of time... escaping to the basement. aka the "Gremlin's Realm"