What Are You Doing Today?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:56 am

I ended up napping also when I got home. I didn't realize how tired I was.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 11:25 am

NHWestoN wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:21 pm
DDeer wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 1:49 pm Yeah! Go Sophie, great news she has rallied Weston, funnily enough stumbled across this song recently, the video made me think of your 3 pawed friend

https://youtu.be/F_TLHH4bss8
Charming voice and video, DD. Sophie's not quite as incapacitated as that little guy - she's only missing her paw. There's a footpad about the size of a quarter on her "wrist" where a paw joint would attached. She spent the day napping for both of us while I did Christmas cards. Thanks, chum.

Thanks, quite a catchy number now I have had a few listens. More Christmas shopping for me, also got a few games to keep us entertained over the break.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 2:39 pm

About to go and get dinner that we just ordered.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 8:52 pm

Writing Christmas cards.

gforce · Post by **gforce** » Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:23 am

Packing up for a trip down south to see family for the holidays.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Dec 18, 2021 6:47 pm

gforce wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:23 am Packing up for a trip down south to see family for the holidays.

Enjoy!
.... but be safe, okay.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 7:46 am

Wrapping presents and walking in fog.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:24 am

Running around making last minute purchases. Eeeegh!

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 1:09 pm

Watching the Snowdog with the family, Mrs deer always cries at the start.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 3:22 pm

Getting the house ready for Christmas for tomorrow since we are gonna have people over.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Dec 24, 2021 9:55 pm

Getting things ready for church dinner tomorrow.
Had to help Sophie find her sheep doll. I don't know which of us is less educable - her for losing it or me for looking all over when she always loses the sheep the same way (accidentally drops the doll down the basement stairs). When she was younger, she'd just go fetch the doll herself, sort fo an amusement, but her legs are less flexible now and, if we're not home, she loses track of her toy. The delight she expresses at the "reunion", though, is still good for couple of laughs.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:32 am

I plan to enjoy my Christmas tomorrow and hope my sinuses don't bother me too much.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 8:55 am

Unwrapping presents, rocking antlers, playing Reindeer games

(mainly of the board variety). Merry Christmas all!

Sophie and sheep reunited, yay!

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 5:32 pm

Had a zoom call with my kids - who have aged well out of childhood (my eldest son will hit 50 next year). All's well and, again, Merry Christmas to all.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:47 pm

Saw my Dad, he's keeping o.k. played card games.

trekkie · Post by **trekkie** » Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:10 pm

Glad to hear yr dad is okay, Daunted. What type of card games did you play?

Harry Johnathan · Post by **Harry Johnathan** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:48 am

NHWestoN wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 5:32 pm Had a zoom call with my kids - who have aged well out of childhood (my eldest son will hit 50 next year). All's well and, again, Merry Christmas to all.

I imagine it would be quite surreal to live to see your kids grow like that.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:34 am

Harry Johnathan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 7:48 am
NHWestoN wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 5:32 pm Had a zoom call with my kids - who have aged well out of childhood (my eldest son will hit 50 next year). All's well and, again, Merry Christmas to all.
I imagine it would be quite surreal to live to see your kids grow like that.

Well, it does give you a sense of how time has passed for yourself, both a quiet pleasure ib what they have accomplished but also a marker of your own mortality.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:14 pm

Putting away the Christmas decorations for another year.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Wed Dec 29, 2021 2:12 pm

Starting to gather documents for the taxes. Slow, gray sort of day and not feeling terribly ambitious.

CunningFox · Post by **CunningFox** » Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:35 pm

Got my booster shot.

trekkie · Post by **trekkie** » Wed Dec 29, 2021 10:05 pm

The booster actually ached more than my first two vaccinations, it wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t something I’d like to relive every day.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Dec 30, 2021 12:33 am

I am gonna get my booster shot in a few hours. The only appointment I could get was a 6 AM one at our 24-hour CVS. That is gonna be fun.

CuriousCnidarian · Post by **CuriousCnidarian** » Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:18 am

It appears that the sinusitis + whateveritwas that ailed me over Thanksgiving has returned for round 2 to ruin my New Year as well. So, tonight (and tomorrow) will be me cancelling plans and resting.

trekkie · Post by **trekkie** » Thu Dec 30, 2021 8:55 am

Hope you feel better, Curious.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Thu Dec 30, 2021 11:29 am

trekkie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:10 pm Glad to hear yr dad is okay, Daunted. What type of card games did you play?

Chase the Ace, Hearts and another one called Yaniv I think (we play a variation of this where you have to get below 11).
Also played Pokemon of course

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:47 pm

Just got my booster earlier today and by earlier I mean at 6 AM. Got to love having a 24-hour CVS around. Sometimes.

trekkie · Post by **trekkie** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:58 am

I’d love to have a 24 hour drug store nearby, to be honest.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 11:07 am

trekkie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 9:58 am I’d love to have a 24 hour drug store nearby, to be honest.

Gotta love access - after all, getting sick is a 24-hour a day afflicition.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:45 pm

Today I was getting ready for New Years Eve but now I'm grieving Betty White.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:40 pm

Sitting home with the wife, the dog, and a large Jack and Coke. Maybe I'll stay awake. Maybe not. Either way, 2021 evaporates and 2022 begins.
Maybe Daisy will show up in a Housepets strip this year.
Happy or Happier New Year, dahlins ......

Harry Johnathan · Post by **Harry Johnathan** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 11:04 pm

CuriousCnidarian wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:18 am It appears that the sinusitis + whateveritwas that ailed me over Thanksgiving has returned for round 2 to ruin my New Year as well. So, tonight (and tomorrow) will be me cancelling plans and resting.

Prayed for you.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Mon Jan 03, 2022 9:15 pm

Laying low and staying warm. Sophie's feeling poorly today.

Harry Johnathan · Post by **Harry Johnathan** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 3:32 pm

Hope Sophie is alright.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Jan 04, 2022 5:03 pm

Watching news reports about the COVID-19 vaccine.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:46 am

Get well soon Sophie

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:07 pm

DDeer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:46 am Get well soon Sophie

Hadn't seen this before. Sophie and I are grateful for your kind thoughts, DDeer. Happy Birthday, again!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:25 pm

Dealing with stomach issues which I am pretty sure are the result of the P.F. Chang's spicy chicken I had for dinner last night. I think I could feel the insides of my mouth beginning to melt.

DDeer · Post by **DDeer** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:03 am

Watch that spice!

NHWestoN wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:07 pm
DDeer wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 11:46 am Get well soon Sophie
Hadn't seen this before. Sophie and I are grateful for your kind thoughts, DDeer. Happy Birthday, again!

Thankyou Weston, had dearly hoped for better news about Sophie, very kind of you both.

NHWestoN · Post by **NHWestoN** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:42 pm

Again, festive wishes for you, dear. And thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers.

Sophie had been at the animal shelter where we volunteered for sometime before we discovered her. She was at least two and more likely three of four years old, and her life until then had been hard, loveless, and perhaps a bit perilous. At some stage in her life, she had been a "breeder" for a dogfight gang and had birthed at least one set of puppies. Being about corgi-sheltie size, she would never have been trained for the ring but her eventual fate would finally have been to die as a "victim dog". In training dogs to fight, you have to train them to kill - "victim dogs" are the targets where fighting dogs learn their "killer" instincts. Somehow Sophie escaped that fate.

Our shelter was always full and in small, underfunded, semi-rural shelters the goal is to support the most adoptable animals. Those who prove less or unadoptable are supported until new animals arrive - then they are euthanized to make room for the more adoptable candidates. Sophie, we discovered, had been on the death list for some time, but the staff had fallen in love with the happy, three pawed "little fox with the wonderful, wavy tail" and kept her from the gas. Someone had also provided her a little doll, a sheep, which she defended fiercely but surrendered gladly to those she trusted. The missus and I were just baffled as to why no one had adopted her so, moved by her story and her vivacious personality, we brought her home. She lived with us through fifteen-sixteen years.

Sophie's health, energy, and joy seemed in exhaustible. People were gob-smacked when I told them how old she was. She loved to run and when folks asked how a three-footed dog could run, I'd just shrug and say "Sophie is a miracle of God." It was last January that her decline became noticeable, though, and - like the two autumn leaves in Bambi - she began drifting downward. Various pills, shots, and treatments revived her for a month, three weeks, but the signs of aging returned relentlessly. In August, we learned she had "mass" (tumor) and were told she would be gone before mid-September. She slept more, ate irregularly, and her spirit of adventure faded as her youthful mobility gave way to a slow unsteady stiffness.

But Sophie was not only beautiful and joyous; she was tough and willful. In December, her wise vet started her on an anti-inflammatory that worked pretty well. Sophie had a wonderful Christmas, but I held off buying her a Christmas sweater (Sophie was our little southern dog and did not care for snow, wind, sleet, wet, and cold). Then, two days after New Year's, her decline seemed to accelerate. After a year, we determined that our little fox had reached the line where medical treatment provides diminishing returns and leaches into a kind of torture. Then she left us.

The mourning and melacholy will be with us for a while. I confess I await with dread the phonecall to come and retrieve those beloved ashes. But we spent almost a quarter of our lives with "Sophie the Joyous" and she will be in our lives forever. Maybe longer.

Love to all.