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Haven’t got much advice, workwise, although, next time they try to dump some signage on you, could you ask ‘How much do these signs equal in sales?’ and tell them that you need credit towards your sales quota for every sign equivalent to the amount of sales you could make in the time it takes to do them?
With the pets, they are very good at picking up moods and acting out. Unfortunately, it sounds like there is plenty of tension for them to be picking up on. Could you get the critters out for some good exercise this weekend, or at least some play time? (With treats, bribery is your friend, sometimes.) That might make them AND you feel better. And if they’re too tired to wreck things, that would be one stressor down, at least.
Before anyone tells me that most cottontail ‘orphans’ aren’t, I know this and made good use of it last year when I found a nest of bunnies in the backyard. (Unfortunately, I found them with the lawnmower, but mama never seemed to notice that three of her babies were gone; she just kept on taking care of the rest.)
My problem is that yesterday, when I got home at a quarter to midnight, I found an infant bunny in the middle of my family room. So I think it’s pretty clear that mama isn’t going to show up every night to keep feeding it. I have located the nest this morning, but no one is home. I’m not certain if Adam (my flat-coated retriever) found the nest, or if something else found it and he merely retrieved the (remaining) baby. Quick examination last night showed it was chilled, has one eye still shut and one open, but no apparent injuries, so I set it up in a box with a heating pad, and spent a very sleepless night, what with Adam fussing everytime the bunny moved and having to keep getting up to turn the heating pad back on. (It turns itself off after an hour or so. Great safety feature, perhaps but not so good for overnight critter warming.)
This morning baby is warm and squirmy, but has an odd roll, which I’m not sure is from an injury, immaturity of a side effect of suddenly seeing light on one side. It does not appear to have a head tilt when I hold it upright, but when it’s put down it sort of corkscrews along. I raised gerbils for 15 years, but they were all walking well before their eyes opened, and I don’t think this one can. I’m going to try to call my vet in a bit, since I found out this week that my old one retired (he had no weekend hours; and the nearest emergency clinic is maybe two hours away) but I don’t know if the new vets have any Saturday hours either.Any advice on what to do with it? There are no licensed rehabbers in this county or any of the surrounding ones, and Animal Control in this county is sort of a part-time job of the police. Putting it back it the nest seems unlikely to be successful this time since there are no sibs to snuggle with, and Adam knows where the nest is now.
Yikes! My appendicitis ‘experience’ consisted of about 24 hours of mild to moderate discomfort and waiting around – it started right after dinner one Saturday and felt like indigestion, so by the time I realized it wasn’t going to resolve it was the middle of the night and, being now wee hours of Sunday, I had to wait until 1pm for the clinic to open, then wait around at the clinic, then get sent to the hospital for ‘just in case’ xrays, then wait an hour for the contrast to get to the right place, then get the xray and wait until it was developed and read. Then the surgeon appeared and said ‘If you need to call anyone, do it now. We’re taking you into surgery immediately.’ And sure enough, I was checked in and in preop within twenty-five minutes. Mine didn’t quite rupture, but it was close enough to earn me and extra day in the hospital.
I have no idea what my bloodwork showed, but I did not have the ‘standard’ diagnostic sign of rebound pain. The doctor told me that he didn’t think it was appendicitis, but he just didn’t feel comfortable sending me home to sit on it, so he sent me for xrays. The films apparently were VERY diagnostic.
I do hit it a lot. I am left handed but I don’t see what that has to do with it. All the other forums I post at have ‘Submit’ on the left of the action list, so I think I just see the ‘S’ where I expect to see it and don’t register the rest of the word.
It depends on whether you’re talking about visual appearance or genetics. Genetically, a buckskin is a bay with one cream gene (i.e. the bay version of palomino) while a dun has one or two dun genes; some horses are both dun and buckskin. Visually, the colors overlap, except that all duns WILL have a dorsal stripe and may have other primitive marks (leg and shoulder stripes, pale borders to mane and tail, etc.). Buckskins (as with bays) may occasionally have dorsal strips but lack the other primitive marks. Like the bays, the manes and tails (and legs and eartips) will be solid black. Combo horses are frequently paler in color than either, with the dun factor markings.
But visually, people tend to call the golder ones ‘buckskin’ (with or without dorsal stripe) and the tanner ones ‘dun’.
That’s ‘bated breath’. Baiting your breath is not very healthy and it tends to scare people away besides. We don’t want to run Melody off with fish- or worm-breath!
Hang in there. If you can manage the diabetes, that should take care of a lot of the problems you’ve been having, and it IS manageable. Good luck.
I still have my scrapbook I made in middle school about the original Columbia launches. I remember being so excited about it. I never dreamed that I’d see the Shuttles just end with no replacement – even then we were speculating and daydreaming about what would come after them, but like the moon shots (which I don’t remember) we’ve just . . . stopped. Hopefully this won’t be as much of a terminus as that was, since we do have the space station up there that has to be kept supplied.
Ah, who needs a car? Just ride one of your griffins to work!
(Gotta remember the other piece I picked to bid on isn’t up yet. And the new flapcat. And Xanopo, and the bats . . . )
Oh he is truly magnificent. So I can tell right now he’ll be out of my range well before the close of auction. 😥
*yells* “AT ME!”
Congrats on the win! If that was Firefly, just think how much more some of the others have gone for – you saved a lot of money. 😀
