NINTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS, JANUARY 2, 2013//INCREDIBLE BEACH HOUSE//2 in emergency room
NINTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS!!
two emergency room sagas so far, one yesterday and one today. one a cat and one a human. dropped off ivermectin at rn's as i discovered when i was by there that three kittens in one of the litters have mange. so that litter is being sequestered from the rest of them and have started treatment. also asked rn the name of the kids she and her husband fostered in california, if she can find it somewhere, i wanted to try to do an anonymous search for her on line, 25 years later. hope she finds the name, she remembers first names and that may not be enough, though you never know if you have the town and all that.
so i get to rn's and the baby she watches during the week is in the hospital. the parents brought him in new year eve, another one spending new year eve in the emergency room. the baby had a cold for the passed week or so and now has an infection in the blood stream from the cold, which they claim is common in babies. so more drama.
from there i finally got to k's and we opened korbel that kv and i bought when we moved to the beach almost five years ago and never used. well, it was on the brink of becoming vinegar. drinkable but just barely. lol. i mix mine with orange juice and make mimosas, so it didn't matter. its only cold duck that i like straight and we didn't have any. i guessed andre stopped making it? this is the second time this happened, we had a bottle of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne a few years ago, kept too long (white) and it was already vinegar, but probably would make a great salad dressing mixed with olive oil, who knows? lol.
so k has a rothschild, and we plan on that next, but if that is sitting too long, the white one will be vinegar, only the red will be better and stronger.
dinner was great as always. he made a pork loin with mushroom sauce (too much meat though, what is it with the big meat portions lately) mixed veggies and cross buns. then champagne and orange juice. watched part of the symphony from austria with julie andrews narrating and inspector morse. brought treats for the dogs who went wild for bacon and cheese strips. and treated two of his cats with ivermectin who have skin flare ups.
also did an adoption/foster of the black himalayan mix that is super friendly but soils. she is fostering it, indoor/outdoor from her screened in porch on the mainland. didn't occur to me until yesterday that the kitten may be soiling from being bullied, as i don't think it does it soils when it stays in a bathroom as its main room with another kitten and then allowed to go run part of the day. except for the soiling it was the best kitten in that litter. SUPER friendly.
we trimmed the kitten's nails and the kitten was shaking and scared, but always goes along. ditto when given meds, never fights you. very sweet. THE HOUSE was incredible. we met at her mother's beach house, her mother lives half at the beach house and half in arizona. she rents out the house top and bottom (two units) or entire house and its PERFECT inside. better than timeshare, with decks to the ocean and terraces to the west side of it, and and perfect view of the ocean, can't miss, from the back. she said they lose the stairs down to the beach every year from storms. the only place i've stayed that is similar in views, privacy and decor is casa maria in sausalito, california, which i don't think is there anymore, it had "themed" rooms and you chose the type of decor you wanted in a book at check in, it went for a few hundred PER NIGHT over twenty years ago, each room had its own private terrace and its own jacuzzi and fireplace in the room. i loved that place. her mother rents out this place for $700 per WEEK. wow! or the whole house for $2500 per week, what a deal! around here, they get $700 per week for timeshare and its not as big, nor as nice. she has regular clients who rent it, part of each season and she uses it with her family, when noone is renting it just for weekends. she grew up there. she says her mom bought it for $200,000 in 1990 and the taxes are $5000 because of how long ago she bought it. but nowadays all beachfront houses are a million dollars or more and the taxes are around $25,000 per year for the neighbors who bought in the passed ten years. totally loved it. i want to stay there. lol. even the furniture is perfect and themed and all that. what taste. her mother must have backround in interior design. verrrry pro.
two emergency room sagas so far, one yesterday and one today. one a cat and one a human. dropped off ivermectin at rn's as i discovered when i was by there that three kittens in one of the litters have mange. so that litter is being sequestered from the rest of them and have started treatment. also asked rn the name of the kids she and her husband fostered in california, if she can find it somewhere, i wanted to try to do an anonymous search for her on line, 25 years later. hope she finds the name, she remembers first names and that may not be enough, though you never know if you have the town and all that.
so i get to rn's and the baby she watches during the week is in the hospital. the parents brought him in new year eve, another one spending new year eve in the emergency room. the baby had a cold for the passed week or so and now has an infection in the blood stream from the cold, which they claim is common in babies. so more drama.
from there i finally got to k's and we opened korbel that kv and i bought when we moved to the beach almost five years ago and never used. well, it was on the brink of becoming vinegar. drinkable but just barely. lol. i mix mine with orange juice and make mimosas, so it didn't matter. its only cold duck that i like straight and we didn't have any. i guessed andre stopped making it? this is the second time this happened, we had a bottle of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne a few years ago, kept too long (white) and it was already vinegar, but probably would make a great salad dressing mixed with olive oil, who knows? lol.
so k has a rothschild, and we plan on that next, but if that is sitting too long, the white one will be vinegar, only the red will be better and stronger.
dinner was great as always. he made a pork loin with mushroom sauce (too much meat though, what is it with the big meat portions lately) mixed veggies and cross buns. then champagne and orange juice. watched part of the symphony from austria with julie andrews narrating and inspector morse. brought treats for the dogs who went wild for bacon and cheese strips. and treated two of his cats with ivermectin who have skin flare ups.
also did an adoption/foster of the black himalayan mix that is super friendly but soils. she is fostering it, indoor/outdoor from her screened in porch on the mainland. didn't occur to me until yesterday that the kitten may be soiling from being bullied, as i don't think it does it soils when it stays in a bathroom as its main room with another kitten and then allowed to go run part of the day. except for the soiling it was the best kitten in that litter. SUPER friendly.
we trimmed the kitten's nails and the kitten was shaking and scared, but always goes along. ditto when given meds, never fights you. very sweet. THE HOUSE was incredible. we met at her mother's beach house, her mother lives half at the beach house and half in arizona. she rents out the house top and bottom (two units) or entire house and its PERFECT inside. better than timeshare, with decks to the ocean and terraces to the west side of it, and and perfect view of the ocean, can't miss, from the back. she said they lose the stairs down to the beach every year from storms. the only place i've stayed that is similar in views, privacy and decor is casa maria in sausalito, california, which i don't think is there anymore, it had "themed" rooms and you chose the type of decor you wanted in a book at check in, it went for a few hundred PER NIGHT over twenty years ago, each room had its own private terrace and its own jacuzzi and fireplace in the room. i loved that place. her mother rents out this place for $700 per WEEK. wow! or the whole house for $2500 per week, what a deal! around here, they get $700 per week for timeshare and its not as big, nor as nice. she has regular clients who rent it, part of each season and she uses it with her family, when noone is renting it just for weekends. she grew up there. she says her mom bought it for $200,000 in 1990 and the taxes are $5000 because of how long ago she bought it. but nowadays all beachfront houses are a million dollars or more and the taxes are around $25,000 per year for the neighbors who bought in the passed ten years. totally loved it. i want to stay there. lol. even the furniture is perfect and themed and all that. what taste. her mother must have backround in interior design. verrrry pro.
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Your days are filled with activities, you are very busy. I hope that mange goes away. This home sounds so wonderful. Have another Great Day. XXOO
You are waaaay busy. Sounds like a good thing.
I wish I could find some Cold Duck for you.......I would surely send it. Determined to look. Was never my drink of choice but I do remember it.
There is nothing better than living on the ocean.....or any water.....lake or pond. I love it.
You wear me out! I wish so much to live back on the ocean, can\'t believe I don\'t.
You work and give so much. Foster kids might be hard to trace, let me know. My dad was one way back.
Hugs
wow janie! your father was a foster child. have you ever read \"the family nobody wanted\" by helen doss? it deals with that kind of thing and the social system and all that. its great and its true. was in life magazine and all that.
my friend\'s mom and her older brother and baby sister were in a \"home\" when they were toddlers, because of the depression. the older kids stayed home and worked in their parents sweet shop, but they couldn\'t afford the younger kids and they were sent out. they always talk about it, very hush hush. they were there for a few of years and it had a huge impact on them, even though they had family visiting them every weekend. very sad, and hard to piece together when they talk about it. they said they always planned to give back by fostering but never did. did you dad keep in touch with them, or is it the kind of thing you put behind you?