Monday, May 05, 2008

rule 16: don't look now, but the fact you want is so close to you that you can't see it.

taxi got skewered by a screen door last weekend and ended up with a big hole in his side. on tuesday the hole was looking better but still kind of gross.
brushing claire's teeth tuesday night i found she had a rotten one. ouch.
so a trip to the cat clinic was in order, and a quick begging wednesday for the vet to look at taxi's hole verified that it would heal fine on it's own. the tooth, however, has already cost me $300 and they haven't even done anything. i feel completely taken advantage of, and i feel like an a-hole for feeling taken advantage of when it comes to my poor kitty's health and comfort. boo. taxi and i went to the park friday, he was so excited after being cooped up all week healing. he got too excited, ran too fast, got t-boned by another pup, flew and flipped in the air, and landed with another hole (in this arm, front leg, whatever) and a pad ripped off.
and yesterday i found a huge nasty tick on him, it'd been there a week without me noticing. SO GROSS.
saturday went to ptown for af time:
does it get any cooler than rollerblades and duct tape?
actually it does. for instance, af staying home would be cooler.

and today i went to pardee and camanche for a tour of the power facilities!
here's pardee reservoir
and pardee dam
pressure relief tunnel inside pardee dam....300 steps, phew.

pretty cool tour, we saw the turbines and generators and controls and the fish hatchery.