An Artists' Life

The everyday life of me, an aging NH artist. I live in the woods at the top of a mountain, which was a dream when I was younger, and now is a lonely reality, hard to walk these steep hills, and few people to chat with along the way. So I grow more introspective and have begun to paint again everyday. I spend my days with Maxx and LuLu, two very interesting dogs, and my husband Stevie.

Friday, March 28, 2008

AN APRON FOR MOM

Since it is so hard for me to find my old blogs, I am sort of re-blogging.  Is this a word?  I have a habit of making up words, which seems to be an American habit.  Just look at Wikipedia if you don't take my word for it.

These last few weeks have been a lot of tedious as well as hard physical labor.  Packing to move isn't anyones' favorite pastime that I know of.  On top of that, now two of our beloved dog children are quite ill and each visit to the vet costs about $130.  Yet our vet dresses very simply and is a plain person, my kind of vet.  Most vets would be charging twice as much for these lengthy diagnostic visits.  She has a gentle hand and heart and that pleases me, especially with old -12 years old Maxie boy.  He has Lymes' Disease and bronchitis and Ziggy the puppy has Kennel cough and is impossible to keep quiet.  By bedtime last night she was running a high fever and couldn't eat anything.  Nor did she until late in the day today.  And then vomited it all up.  Poor thing.

Max has done nothing but lose weight with this illness, diagnosed about one month ago.  Ziggy was just diagnosed yesterday, but I noticed she was sick a couple of days ago.  It is so hard loving my silent little angels.

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