Good Sunday Morning - What's new with you?

Well here I am..finally home from the Saurday night Music Trivia Pursuit evening in the city..our team came in second, losing by only five points.  When we came outside, it was trying hard to snow...brrr! We all went to Tim Hortons for coffee after and chatted alot then aprted ways and headed home.  Derek is at work til 4 am at the club where he is a part time Bouncer.

The rain continues and the temperatures continue to drop..they ARE predicting the white stuff.  It sounds soo cold out there.

On Sunday, Im picking up my mother at her retirement community and taking her to her favourite restaurant for an early supper.  There we will meet one of mother's cousins and HER daughter....this will be a bit of a Birthday Supper since  mom turns 89 on Nov 26th.

We have a new kitten inside now...LilyRose, the kitten who used to walk like a turtle with her back legs straight out perpendicular to her body  has moved inside.  LilyRose has been to the vet, had her needles, was de-wormed and de-fleaed.  I explained how LilyRose was born in a five gallon pail outside under a tarp in the driveway and was presented to society by her mother looking and moving like  platypus.  Derek immediately called her FLAT-a-Puss and it broke my heart to see this tiny kitten flopping around trying to keep up with the others.  She is so pretty..pure snow white with calico patches on her back and clear healthy eyes. 

I decided that she had a beautiful spirit so she deserved a beautiful name too...that's why she is called LilyRose.  Id massaged her hing end daily..very gently and now she walks almost normal. However, when the vet heard all this and examined thie kitten, he said that LilyRose should not be alive because, as he showed me, her back had been broken..either at birth in the birth canal or a little later..perhaps the mother, Twinkie, had jumped down into the bucket and landed on the kitten breaking her back.  Her vertabrae there are crushed but have somehow fused and she is walking.  The vet calls her a MIRACLE KITTEN.  She still walks with a stange gait but she walks, jumps, runs and pounces like other kittens and is a sweet-natured happy little creature.  Katie, our resident tortie, is NOT amused.

 Well, I have one report to write, 3 mandalas to create then Im off to bed.

 Nancy B

Thank you, Annette..LilyRose is such a joy to have in the house.  Poor Katie gives us big "puppydog" eyes as she sits on the third step down from the livingroom and all we see are the tips of her ears and those big yellow eyes peeking over the top step.  She makes me feel soo guilty!  And when she does come up into the livingroom, she always sits with her back towards us!  I'm SURE that she is well aware of what she is doing!  LOL

LilyRose misses her litter, Im sure, she lays against our feet and snuggles in between...almost packed tightly and sleep on her poor little damaged back, all four legs in the air..no dignity lost on LilyRose!

*hugs*

The usual week end for me. I'm working straight through until Thursday. So while the rest of the world is out living I'm helping run the place. I work at the local Answering Service and somebody has to answer for all the doctor's and other important people who aren't in the office after hours and week ends. It was a typical busy day for me. And I'm back for another day Sunday  pm 3 to 11. But it was a good day. I've had much worse! Sue