I am making some use of a fit of insomnia to write this so hopefully it will make sense — if not, cut me some slack because I wrote it at two AM ;-)

Over the past several months I’ve managed to post maybe once or twice a month at the most, not because life has been that dull but because there has been so much going on it seems almost impossible to stay caught up. And because working 12 hour days in a stressful environment just sucks the life out of you so there isn’t enough energy left for things like updating the site and the blog. Now that I actually have a bit of life left in me at the end of a day I’m slowly catching up on things… for now here is the “condensed version” of some of the things that are going on. I’ll be elaborating more in some cases.

  1. Winter has had a consultation with an orthopedic surgeon and needs surgery to repair her bilateral luxating patellas. The left one is worse and will be done first. It’s not critical yet but it does need to be done within the next couple of months.
  2. We’ve had some behavioral issues with Olive involving aggression towards the other cats and general neurotic-ness (is that a word? lets pretend it is) and after trying several different medications what is actually helping her is Prozac.
  3. Wednesday had two suspicious lumps on her back removed. The histopathology results were bad news — fibrosarcoma, which will most probably recurr.
  4. I (Chris) am now working as a computer technician for a company in Waynesville, NC and enjoying it very much. I’m learning a ton of stuff and getting to actually use all the stuff I learned for my various certifications.
  5. We’ve been volunteering our Saturday mornings to spend time with a dog named Hank who lives at a local vet clinic and needs a home. (pictures and more details will follow)
  6. We’ve started making cotton dog and cat collars and dog cookies which we’ve been selling at the clinic.
  7. We’ve taken on a rescue case who we have named Maggie. She’s still in pretty critical shape. We’ll post her story and some pictures soon.

I think this covers most of what’s been going on. Other than that we’ve been enjoying spending time in our yard with the dogs and Simon, have been exploring some of the cool places in our neighborhood, and are tremendously enjoying our first full spring back in NC.