We have an appointment in January to meet with a consultant for Drew. It was the earliest they had 
I wanted next week
Just want to do what we can do, if possible.
So far he eating good, demanding love and cuddles, wanting to play (when the young ones aren’t around…lol)
For us it is all about our babies quality of life, but 12 is way too young for cats. And we aren’t happy about both of our 12 yr olds going through all of this.
Thank you for all the love.
I’m really hating 2020 right now…..besides the obvious reasons, now not only does Sakura have stage 4 kidney disease, Drew has lymphoma…..he now has a big lump on the side of his throat.
Looking online, treating it can go from $1,000 to $10,000s. 
He was diagnosed with leukemia a few months ago, we almost lost him then….I syringe feed him so much that weekend, that he got enough strength to get an appetite that he started eating on his own.
Thought we got through it and now this…..
ToRn has taken over syringe feeding Sakura. She eats on her own, but won’t eat what she is suppose to help her kidneys. That is what he has to syringe feed her. He does it quicker and probably less stressful on her then I do.
That helped my stress level some, but the vet results from Drew is confirming my worst fears…..all I want to do it break down and lose it….
I see that lump on him and I just feel so bad.I’m just going to take my cat and head to bed.
Holy Crap! It’s a Sea River Otter!!!
I was just finishing the last blog posting when Pauline saw this Sea River Otter running across the camp towards the water. I was able to snap off a few decent pictures as the Sea River Otter ran across the road onto the parade ground and over a ledge just as a Bald Eagle was swooping down.
That was cool!
Oh, and a pic of Drew… yawn.
*Edited April 21, 2014 @ 2:27pm
A Park Ranger said this was a River Otter as Sea Otters never leave the water…
STILL TOTALLY COOL!!!!
Pauline and I pretty much hiked the entire park on Saturday. Of course the GPS went from full to dead 2.24 miles into it, but I think we did just over 6 miles total. We was both feeling it later that night.
We saw a garter snake on the trail, I also had it focused in when he bolted into the bush, I found it again and once again almost got a good shot when he bolted completely.
*sigh
Sunday we took both cats outside. We now have new cat harness’s for both, and I feel much more comfortable using these over the old “strap” ones.
Drew is really starting to enjoy being outside. He is still cautious, he makes sure I am still near him after every few steps, but he walks with his tail up and purrs like mad at times. He will come to Pauline or me and put his front paws on our knees with the look of “I’m going to jump up any second, be ready” and will usually walk around us a few times. When I walk with him, he goes a pretty good pace, and he walks with confidence, and he always walks towards the RV…
He has no idea what to do when he gets to the RV, he just knows that this is his box and he should be in it. He doesn’t seem to want to use the metal stairs, last time he jumped over them both, yesterday I picked him up and put him on them and he wasn’t too cool with that, so I find that interesting.
Sakura still hates the big wide world. She lays as low as she can get, and if she is being held, she will dig in with her claws to make sure she is still being held. But she is getting better. She tucks her tail for the most part, but if we sit or lay down on the grass, she uses us as a cover, and will eat the grass some, and at times, her tail will come out. She enjoys the sun and grass and flowers, she just would rather not go outside to have them.
We will continue taking them out when the weather cooperates and when there isn’t much park activity, no need to give them too much over load of humans.
I used my iPhone on these pics, and honestly, I am so not impressed. I think we will start using our Pentax’s again, I have been too disappointed with pics off the iPhone lately. Tired of the front camera being such a low quality, and even in perfect lighting, they look bad.
It has been overcast with some wind today, but felt pretty nice….even if we didn’t take advantage of it….lol Planning on doing so tomorrow, need to break in my new hiking boots. =)
Coast Guard Cutter with the mountain background from earlier last week
I did get some small things done off of my to do list today, so that was something. We got a walking jacket for the cats. We wanted got it for Drew first because he is the skinniest of the two so we knew it would fit him. Then we would try it on Sakura, so we know what size to order hers (it’ll be purple). He seemed to do ok outside, nervous, but excited….keep purring and looking towards hubby to make sure that he was still there. Now her, she didn’t care for it all….but when she was a kitten she got out for about 22hrs and was never happy with the outside or people since. Use to growl at them out the window at our house.
She isn’t liking it very well at all. =(“
Drew in his walking jacket eating the grass.
I spent Friday trying to contact a consignment store and the third party delivery service so we can empty our storage of our beloved bedroom set, dinning room set, living room table set. We really don’t want to give up our beloved king storage bed set, but why pay for it in storage if we aren’t going to use it for the next 10yrs? That is more then it is worth. =(
Beautiful Morning
In process of phone calls, I looked down and saw that I was missing one of my accent diamonds on my wedding band part of my wedding/engagement ring set (I have them welded together). So not cool! =( I just had the prongs checked just over 2yrs ago, but this is not uncommon. Lucky I have my jewelry insured, so if there is any costs it is covered. And I have a jeweler that we totally trust. They are very reasonable and take very good care of us. We’ve gotten nearly all of my jewelry from them and they do my appraisals. The negative is that I had to ship my ring out to them since they are in Indiana. But it is worth it. They should get it Monday and hopefully, I’ll have it back by the end of next week. The other thing that drives me nuts is that I would have no ring on my finger, well, I solved that. Hubby gave me the blue topaz ring I wanted for our 10th, so I put that where my wedding/engagement ring goes. That is a HUGE help…..other wise I would lose it, not having something there.
Picked up a TV for the bedroom last week, now need to get another apple tv and figure out how we are going to set it up. Our rv is a 2002, so it was made with square box tvs in mind. But no matter what, it is one step closer where we can use our bed for cuddling late at night in front of the tv. We don’t like to spend that much time in bed, it actually hurts our bodies, but we miss the cuddling on our movie nights. So I’m looking forward to us getting it set up, once we figure it out. Friday night over the last few years have become our movie night after we watch Real Time with Bill Mahr.
Out birding a few weeks ago