Saturday, January 17, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Kate in Solvang, Ca
Kate with Tim in Solvang, Ca
Editor's Note: Last week I used Kate's phone to publish on my blog. Her phone stored the secret email address I used, so now she's publishing on my blog as a vandal. I hope she and Tim have a great time on their little get-away.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Happy Birthday Linette!
Happy Birthday Mom!
This is the back side of the castle at Disney's Magic Kingdom as we waited for the fireworks.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Disneyworld
I surprised even myself by joining my parents' trip to Florida on
pretty short notice. We're staying at the Fort Wilderness Resort and
we'll begin in the morning by visiting the wild animal kingdom.
Tonight all we did we goes to dinner which took hours because you take
a bus to a boat that takes you to another boat. Then to get back you
take the monorail to a boat to a bus. Today I've been in a car, a
plane, three buses, a van, aboard three boats and of course, the
monorail. We've also rented a golf cart and drove that to the bus
stop. We really get around.
pretty short notice. We're staying at the Fort Wilderness Resort and
we'll begin in the morning by visiting the wild animal kingdom.
Tonight all we did we goes to dinner which took hours because you take
a bus to a boat that takes you to another boat. Then to get back you
take the monorail to a boat to a bus. Today I've been in a car, a
plane, three buses, a van, aboard three boats and of course, the
monorail. We've also rented a golf cart and drove that to the bus
stop. We really get around.
The group consists of toots, Doug and Linette, Harry and Lucy, Dallas
and Shannon and kids, Kate, Sam, and me. Wish Tim luck running the
fort back in Bountiful.
Hamster Surgery
I stumbled upon an unbelievable scene last night when I went to the Primary Presidency meeting. The hostess had been watching the hamster of another presidency member. The hostess has a cat, but not a regular cat. It's a cat that's a small part Asian leopard. Anyway, for two weeks she had managed to keep the cat and hamster from each other. But of course, that wouldn't be a notable story.
Just before the hamster was to be retrieved by its owner last night, the leopard cat sneaked into the office, knocked the cage off the desk and got a piece of flesh off the flank of the hamster. (It's at this point I showed up.) So, what do you do with an injured hamster? If the hostess's husband is a med student who's done a few animal surgeries before, you set up a miniature surgical suite on the kitchen table.
He used ether as the anesthetic to put the hamster out by spraying a common garage product that's mostly ether on a paper towel and putting it under a bowl with the hamster. He then used 4.0 suture to give the hamster seven stitches. It was only after the hamster was out that he found out it was a little more than just a flesh wound. That makes it really likely that infection will get the hamster, but I'm still impressed by the veterinary care. I don't recommend trying this at home for most people.
I had promised our moms I would get picture of our new place posted, but I'm failing miserably. The desk top computer still isn't put together, and there are still boxes everywhere. I'll be away from the computer for a few days, so it will be next week sometime when I get anything posted.
Just before the hamster was to be retrieved by its owner last night, the leopard cat sneaked into the office, knocked the cage off the desk and got a piece of flesh off the flank of the hamster. (It's at this point I showed up.) So, what do you do with an injured hamster? If the hostess's husband is a med student who's done a few animal surgeries before, you set up a miniature surgical suite on the kitchen table.
He used ether as the anesthetic to put the hamster out by spraying a common garage product that's mostly ether on a paper towel and putting it under a bowl with the hamster. He then used 4.0 suture to give the hamster seven stitches. It was only after the hamster was out that he found out it was a little more than just a flesh wound. That makes it really likely that infection will get the hamster, but I'm still impressed by the veterinary care. I don't recommend trying this at home for most people.
I had promised our moms I would get picture of our new place posted, but I'm failing miserably. The desk top computer still isn't put together, and there are still boxes everywhere. I'll be away from the computer for a few days, so it will be next week sometime when I get anything posted.
Friday, January 2, 2009
We're Never Moving Again
The move out is complete. We've turned over the keys to our old apartment. It's much cleaner than when we moved into it, and we even changed the burnt out light bulb in the bathroom that we hadn't bothered to change for ourselves.
The move in is less complete. There are still no pictures because I haven't dug out the camera and the computer isn't assembled. The apartment is almost at the peak of chaos- where things are coming out of boxes and the mess just kebveps getting bigger. In the next few days I hope the mess will begin to shrink. It takes so long to unpack because we have to think of where to put things: where's the best place to put our cereal? Which wall should we put the big clock on? Which painting goes above the mantle? How are we going to make due with only one towel rack? The decisions are endless.
I had a list of things that we had lost in the previous move that I was hoping to rediscover as we packed. We've now spotted the things on the list, but I'm sure that we will have misplaced more stuff in this move. Things recently found include my teeth whitening kit, a wireless router, a stainless steel vegetable brush, and a couple of specific books. I also found about fifty hair elastics, which I can't exactly blame Nick for.
Nick definitely did more than half the work. I don't think that the labor would have been divided equally anyway, but Nick wouldn't let me carry anything heavy or stay on my feet too long. If we ever move again, which at this point I'm saying is never, I really want full-service movers who come and pack your stuff for you. That's not likely to happen, so I hope that it's far enough in the future that we've forgotten how troublesome it is to move.
The move in is less complete. There are still no pictures because I haven't dug out the camera and the computer isn't assembled. The apartment is almost at the peak of chaos- where things are coming out of boxes and the mess just kebveps getting bigger. In the next few days I hope the mess will begin to shrink. It takes so long to unpack because we have to think of where to put things: where's the best place to put our cereal? Which wall should we put the big clock on? Which painting goes above the mantle? How are we going to make due with only one towel rack? The decisions are endless.
I had a list of things that we had lost in the previous move that I was hoping to rediscover as we packed. We've now spotted the things on the list, but I'm sure that we will have misplaced more stuff in this move. Things recently found include my teeth whitening kit, a wireless router, a stainless steel vegetable brush, and a couple of specific books. I also found about fifty hair elastics, which I can't exactly blame Nick for.
Nick definitely did more than half the work. I don't think that the labor would have been divided equally anyway, but Nick wouldn't let me carry anything heavy or stay on my feet too long. If we ever move again, which at this point I'm saying is never, I really want full-service movers who come and pack your stuff for you. That's not likely to happen, so I hope that it's far enough in the future that we've forgotten how troublesome it is to move.
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