Ella & Rusty & Stu(GA)
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yesterday: http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=53682
Good Morning, Everyone,
After yesterday's shock-a-roo (sorry about that!) we're off to start the new day with a resolution always to check an edit!!!!!
Cold here again this morning (32 degrees F.) with sunshine just breaking through the trees. Edward and I are going on a short paddle with our friends to a lake where the adult loons gather at this time of year to begin their migration to the ocean. If we're lucky, we'll see this gathering (called "rafting" ). (The chicks don't migrate with the adults: they stay around a few more weeks and then migrate--by instinct, since they have never done it before-- to the ocean off the mid-Atlantic coast, where they stay for 5 years before coming back to the fresh-water mountains to breed.) Loons have the same partner for life and always return to "their" lake or pond for the summer. They are really wonderful--ancient-- birds. They are a protected species and we have "loon counts" here every summer. Because of the flooding in the early summer, many feared that there would not be as many chicks this year (nests built at the water's edge in high water would have been too far back from the water when it receded). But that seems not to have been the case. Hooray!
Rusty, of course, will not come to see loons today. He'll maybe be lucky and see the squirrel or chipmunk this afternoon when we get home. We had a good night (after the yellow bedtime test), pretty good number this morning, good shot (I think; but Edward thought he caught a whiff of Levemir), and breakfast in 2 1/2 sittings. Rusty is now on his perch above the radiator.
Everyone have a good Friday and good beginning of the double-holiday weekend (Columbus Day and Canadian Thanksgiving).
Continuing to send healing vines to our kitties in need of them, and thoughts of comfort to Patti & Joe, Emily, and Marje & Mike.
Ella & Rusty
Good Morning, Everyone,
After yesterday's shock-a-roo (sorry about that!) we're off to start the new day with a resolution always to check an edit!!!!!
Cold here again this morning (32 degrees F.) with sunshine just breaking through the trees. Edward and I are going on a short paddle with our friends to a lake where the adult loons gather at this time of year to begin their migration to the ocean. If we're lucky, we'll see this gathering (called "rafting" ). (The chicks don't migrate with the adults: they stay around a few more weeks and then migrate--by instinct, since they have never done it before-- to the ocean off the mid-Atlantic coast, where they stay for 5 years before coming back to the fresh-water mountains to breed.) Loons have the same partner for life and always return to "their" lake or pond for the summer. They are really wonderful--ancient-- birds. They are a protected species and we have "loon counts" here every summer. Because of the flooding in the early summer, many feared that there would not be as many chicks this year (nests built at the water's edge in high water would have been too far back from the water when it receded). But that seems not to have been the case. Hooray!
Rusty, of course, will not come to see loons today. He'll maybe be lucky and see the squirrel or chipmunk this afternoon when we get home. We had a good night (after the yellow bedtime test), pretty good number this morning, good shot (I think; but Edward thought he caught a whiff of Levemir), and breakfast in 2 1/2 sittings. Rusty is now on his perch above the radiator.
Everyone have a good Friday and good beginning of the double-holiday weekend (Columbus Day and Canadian Thanksgiving).
Continuing to send healing vines to our kitties in need of them, and thoughts of comfort to Patti & Joe, Emily, and Marje & Mike.
Ella & Rusty
