Interesting week

It's been an interesting week or so. I took the train to Seattle for work. It was amazing - AMAZING - to sit in the "viewing" car - and watch the sunset over the trees in the back hills on the way from Portland to Seattle. Then we came up upon trees and the ocean. You know what! God certainly makes things awesome.

Tuesday night - arriving back in Portland late - I ran over some construction on the middle of an intersection. I thought they cleaned up afterwards! But I wound up with two nails in my one tire. Fortunately, the way they were situated, no air escaped. The tire just made a horrible clattering noise all the way home. Les Schwab fixed the tire the next day.

My cat, Tut, had been having accidents around the house. Now to know Tut is to love Tut - but accidents are not to be loved. If you raise your voice to Tut - he is crushed. He will go into a pout . . . such a sensitive cat. So before I raised my voice at Tut (or papered my house with pampers) I decided it was time for a vet visit to see if he had issues.

Turns out the guy had issues. He had a bladder stone like an arrowhead. Yeah - Saturday night was emergency surgery for the guy. Got him back home after a several day stay at the hospital - with the vet telling me - don't let him chew his stitches. The first day that wasn't a problem. But the second night - I'm sleeping - and I hear him gnawing on his stiches at 4am. Like an idiot I yell at him to stop. And. . .we're into the pout behind the couch. So at 4am I'm digging him out from behind the couch - assuring him that he's still a good cat.

The vet and I had a discussion and now Tut is wearing an Elizabethan collar which he hates. But he's not chewing on those very expensive stitches!