It’s  Father’s Day today, and even though I haven’t got Bob around anymore, I wanted to just give thanks to him. He was a good guy, who was always willing to pitch in and help someone out without looking for anything in return. He taught me how to bait a hook, how to check the oil in my car, how to think creatively when situations called for it.

He taught me how to make the best fried chicken, and why I should eat salads (and less junkfood–like fried chicke–not that I listened LOL), He encouraged my artistic nature and was always willing to get me whatever books I wanted. He encouraged me to entertain myself and to use my mind.  He taught me how to appreciate silence, and the woods without people in them. He helped me to understand that there is something greater out there than can be perceived and that I shouldn’t be afraid. And that’s not the half of it.

All in all, you did a great job Bob. I love you and I still miss you.

Ok, sorry folks for the lack of predictable & fast responses & posts.  I’ve been suffering from a dose of the man-flu courtesy of Mark.  This means I’ve been choking, coughing, wheezing and generally have the concentration of a gnat…actually the gnat probably has a greater power of concentration than I do at this point. But here’s hoping I’ll be better really soon.

The other thing is that although I thought Max was doing better, he now, apparently is NOT.

I’m not sure what at all is going on with him, but it looks like I’m calling the vet first thing and getting him in tomorrow if at all possible.  He’s obviously hungry, but not eating (he’ll make a token effort to eat and then the food falls out and he just seems to give up), and he’s not drinking unless I dip my hands in the water and let him lick it off.  Neither of these are typical of Max. Like myself he’s a definite trencherman and he never has issues drinking….. *sigh*  I’m glad I’ve been keeping an eye on him (this is pretty new as of yesterday, I only realized the drinking issue this evening).

Let’s just keep hoping he’ll be ok, the vet will know what the problem is and make his body run smoothly again.

I’m off to bed. I’m knackered, worried about my boy and tired of coughing and wheezing.  Let’s hope tomorrow brings good things for all of us.

UPDATE:5/16

Max has been booked in to the vet tomorrow morning. So we’ll continue trying to tempt him and making mushy food and seeing if he’ll eat any of it. I suspect that if it’s not his mouth than whatever the problem is we’ll be getting those ultra-expensive ultra sounds. *loves max*

I’m all about this being bunny-day (no, not really, but I am all about it being chocolate egg-y, spring-time-y, season of baby ducks & cuteness)

Colette doesn’t really fit any of that but this was the spring-y est photo I had (since I took it yesterday)

This week has just been one thing after another, and I really want to know WTF people are thinking out there (No. Actually I don’t. Whatever. I don’t really care except to be glad I don’t have a gun. I’d be in jail at this point.) I’ve had it up to here with the jerks I’m dealing with.

I have two videos to share with those people (and hey, the rest of you can watch if you want a bit of low-brow, vulgar entertainment).
(NSFW)

VENT OVER: Now, I return you to your regularly scheduled (and relatively non-vulgar blogging)

Well, I suppose I should explain why the blog’s been quiet since last week-, huh?

Well the long & short of it is that I’ve been struggling with my depression and I had a mental meltdown with the state of my workroom-office.

Everything kind of got “sploded” and I couldn’t cope.

I didn’t want to go in my room because the thought of trying to re-organize or sort-through stuff  was oppressive. I felt like everything was crowding me in/making me feel claustrophobic.  Can we say “displacement activities”? Yep. You name it and I found a reason to do it somewhere else.

So here I am…almost a whole week later!

I’m happy to say that Mark, who is a marvelous guy, that I’m really, really lucky to have (even when we drive each other nuts) helped me put up a couple of shelves (4) on my wall so I now have some of the “stuff” that’s been crowding me out of the way without requiring yet more boxes/bags etc to store it all in.  I also donated 2 bags of “stuff” to the thrift shop, and I’m still looking for stuff to pass on that I won’t need.

Did I mention that the fact that since it’s all done now (well aside from some of the fabric stuff) I can now–FINALLY—get down to making the stuff for etsy that I’ve been stewing over.  I have a lot of fun when I make miniatures and I’ve been missing it (and jonesin’ to do some) but the whole crowding/mess/disorganization thing had be feeling trapped.

Anyyyyyyyyyway!

I’ll be sharing some new photos over the weekend!

Yes!

I am!

I promise that I will have some great stuff to show over the weekend–so just hang in there folks!