Home Thoughts

I left town Tuesday morning. It rained for three days and I  slogged around suffering like everyone else and then on the fourth day I left and the second I left the sun came out. I’m 2500 miles away in the desert today and back home a soft northern spring is bringing those little green shoots up out of the earth lickety-split.I’m happy to be on vacation but I miss my real life. I miss going to the Y and seeing the odd little kid in the child care room who just had to wear his leopard costume. I miss Uncle Ed and worry that he’s lonesome without me.  He’s a great one for reading and doing the crossword and scrubbing the bathroom floors on his hands and knees though, and he was after all in the South Pacific for three-and-a-half years so he's probably OK. He is one tough, tough guy.I guess the one I really worry about is Abe, our nice grey cat born 15 years ago next month who almost died in the spring of ’08 because of a blocked urethra. In the end he had to have what remained to him of his little male parts cut off and at the time I got many humorous posts out of our joint predicament around that very pricey hospital stay but now (since I suddenly seem to be old myself) it’s not funny to me . Now I worry about him all the time and when I get up in the night to go to the bathroom I ask him if he’s all right and when he gets up he does the same. I’m not there now to check on him but people are staying in the house so I know he is probably fine.Still how funny that just yesterday someone should comment on those long-ago postings and leave this very instructive video.  Watch it and think how funny you’d find it to have your bladder so painfully distended:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlK7nF8rTj4&feature=player_embedded]