This is a work in progress, so just read the high spots and forget the typos.
Today is President's day, which has everything shut down, mail, banks, and so forth. As for me, it doesn't mean anything now that I am retired. I work just as much, but have little to show for it. I spent a fair amount of time yesterday doing my nails, but at least I can look at them without wincing. I ordered a fox ruff to replace the one the rats clawed up, and this one will not hang in the closet but will go inside a metal locker. Hope that will stop the miserable pests, in addition to rat bait. This is a bad time for buying lockers, with band/camp/scouts and so forth. I will figure out something once the ruff shows up, for temporary safe keeping. Maybe the freezer or the refridge ? If I had any in-laws I could convince them that the fur is their missing pet dog... Nah
My visit to the dentist last week was grim. He was as easy as possible in removing 4 teeth, but I have to go back 10 days later for the implants (caps, whatever). Then I will be able to eat anything I like. I knew I was in for it when I saw the palatial offices, that and the bill for $3600. And more to come.
Do you know that horses have teeth that keep growing? Every few years they may have to have them "floated" to remove the sharp edges to prevent the rough sharp stuff that would cut into their cheeks. The noise tooth rasping causes makes my own teeth flinch. That is why the old-time horse traders looked in the horse's mouth, they're estimating the age of the horse. I miss my three horses more than I estimated, I remind myself it wasn't all sunny and nickering, this past 8 weeks the weather has been icky. Bonafide meteorology term, icky. And mud over the boot tops. I think about pony equines, but most ponies are mean and meaner, so much for "Royal Velvet" and ponies like shetland or connemara. The last pony I owned, when the kids were small, bit me in my * * and she went down the road soon after.
