(You mean I have to leave MY bed?)
No, no, not the nice doctor who FIXED mama. Mama’s knee jerk!
(I wish she would not use that word around me, really–so rude!)
BUT mama did call her doc and he was not in so she went to his partner next door and had, literally, about 24 cl of fluid taken out of her gonflated knee (slang in our house for swollen, pumped up, inflated, etc. from the Italian gonfiare) and let us not go into mama yelling OUCH really loudly at a certain point (no pun intended) and squeezing papa’s hand to a pulp.
SO…that’s that. Now comes the 20 tomato plants being put in their beds for spring and WE (I hate that I have to use that word but what the heck) leave tomorrow and our lovely friends who go in and out will be here.
Boy, will they be sad without me, sigh. Maybe I’ll put my portrait somewhere where they can bond with it.
Do you ever think when your friend ask, So what’s new? that you WISH there were something you could say, as in Ah, I forgot to tell you, I was in the garden this morning and something black and slippery came out the ground and now there is what is called a Cricket in the back yard! Or OH, YES, I just won the lottery–drinks for all on me! Or, you know what I think my memory has come back exactly as it was when I was 30!
Does that ever happen to you?
Well, around here, the only thing new is that tomorrow THEY put some drops between my ears (unless I catch them sneaking up) and I zonk out for a few hours and hope not to lose my breakfast in the car, haha.
Just kidding. Papa drives really well and stays in the speed limit, whatever that is, and if he goes ONE kilometer over the limit, I MMMMEEEEOOOOOWWW. So he slows down 1 km and I’m fine. Weird, huh?
But no one has ever said we are normal around here, haha.
Off to pack my ‘nana and my Mya mouse as I think they work better than drugs. Nip, nibbles, and naps, haha.
May you dream of plump mousies of all colors, nip manners galore and endless fields of flowering nip. Purr purr purr.
Oh, I dream, all right. Twitching and humming…really funny.
Oh, your poor mama’s knee. That sounds so painful. Is she doing better?
She is fine and has a new knee for awhile. This stuff really works.
Ouch that sounds painful, LouLou. You will have to give mama extra cuddles. Oh, and none of us are normal. I read once that normal is the setting on a washing machine, and I happen to agree. Travel safe, and holding thumbs you don’t get car sick.
Hey, good for us abnormals! We have more fun, right?
I love that photo of Loulou with her portrait (actually all the photos are especially fun in today’s blog!!).
Will miss you LOTS!!!!!
Oh, Auntie Lynne, we miss you, too, and thank you for telling us about the car. Mama remembered Gregory because he bought one of her paintings and everything was easy after that because Peta was home. YAY.
Wow! You look really zen in that last shot!! And glad your mama got that fluid outta her knee – YIKES!! Is that what “the old folks” used to call “water on the knee”? Well, Loulou, you’re better than radar with the speed limit!! I don’t have that talent. But wishing for you SMOOTH seas! They think I don’t know but I’m going to the vet today for a “minor procedure” and teeth cleaning. I’d rather take a cruise and wind up in Rome. So see, Loulou, it’s not so bad!? Buon Viaggio!!!!
Oh, MYA, I’m so glad all went well. Those procedures are not like eating hamburger, right?
Have a safe trip.
Well, so far, so good for a ship that was cut in half a few months ago and made LONGER!!!
Yep, a nanner is the best kind of medicine if you ask me. ~Ernie
I think mama needs one….
HA! We can relate to that not normal stuff!
Yes, normal = BORING, haha.
Glad you have friends to take along on your trip. So the drops go between your ears and not in your mouth ? Huh !
Yep, just like the flea drops, whatever they are. Right between my little ears and mama pretends she is giving me a nice scratch but I KNOW what she is doing. And I put up with it and am very calm right now…of course, we’re not moving right now, haha. But the sea is flat, THANK NEPTUNE, whoever he is…