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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH - Thursday, 22 March 2012 [View all]Tansy_Gold
(17,855 posts)I'm behind schedule on the day job in part because of the movie last night and in other part because I had to take Miss Mattie to the vet. She has a hot spot on her tail. There went two hours of my time. So she's on antibiotics and steroids and glucosamine for her arthritis, plus she has a cone on her head to keep her from chewing the tail further. This means she's here in the office with me, while the other three are out in the hosue. In a little while I will have to feed all of them, and that will be another circus.
And the day job still waits.
In the meantime, Biscuit has started jumping the fence again -- twice yesterday -- after almost two years without incident. Neighboring properties on both sides also have fences, but not so high that Biscuit can't jump them and get out completely. Property to the east has been vacant/abondoned for almost two years. But she went over the fence on the west side yesterday and the neighbor there, who is elderly and almost blind, saw her but didn't recognize her. He told his wife and she came over to warn me this morning that there was a mountain lion loose in the neighborhood and they had seen it at lunch time. She even showed me the paw prints where the "big tan creature" had landed after leaping the fence. I looked, and sure enough, Biscuit pawprints.
So now Biscuit can only be outside with supervision, which means keeping Mattie the conehead in the office here with me, and she's not too happy about that. And this will be for the next two weeks, which shoots my four days off next week (time desperately needed to build inventory for last two art shows of the season in April) right in the head.
Oh, and it's getting warm enough outside now that the dogs can't be left out too long anyway because of snakes. I don't need another vet bill for that.
okay, the day job calls, er, screams.