Sophie is taken off her course of antibiotics. The vet keeps her on the 'magic' liver pills until Monday when she will have her next, and hopefully last, check up. It is agreed that she is one tough - and lucky - lady. On balance the suspicion from the 3 vets that have looked after her is that one of the local farmers has been using or disposing of organo-phosphates in places he shouldn't. Sophie has of course managed to find and consume them.
The year continues to throw off familiar delights. These wonderful 'candlestick' blooms now appearing in the hedgerows. What would you call that colour ?
Back at The Rickety Old Farmhouse Sophie checks her garden for audacious C-A-T-S. We then wander across the village green to open up the church.
Was sent this by a kind and wise guy in LA and found I agreed with most of it :https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/
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Definitely interesting points.
I particularly agreed with "Immediately pay what you owe to vendors, workers, contractors. They will go out of their way to work with you first next time." - I'm a woman who has to do all the maintenance around our property, and I'm totally reliant on the goodwill and competence of the Tradespeople I get in. I've found that 1. being polite and friendly towards them, 2 offering a cup of tea/coffee if they're at my place for hours and 3 Paying immediately has meant I've had reliable, helpful plumbers, electricians etc, and they've been willing to do Call Outs to emergencies that were really beyond the normal. I guess it's a case of "what goes around, comes around".
Indigo? Pleased to read Sophie is well again, not so pleased to read the suspected reason for her illness.
An interesting list of guidelines, some of which have appeared in other places. Whoever assembled it seems to have overlooked the disconnect between "Making art is not selfish; it’s for the rest of us. If you don’t do your thing, you are cheating us." and "Buy used books."
Writers don't make a lot of money, and of late too many have been seriously ripped off by Amazon and other electronic platforms -- the only way they get paid for what may be years of labor on a book is via royalties.
Buy new books.
Glad Sophie is doing so much better.
I echo Tigger's comments about Sophie.
The advice list is very worthy, but I confess to feeling exhausted after reading a couple of pages...
Cheer! Gail.
What a difference a week makes and what a girl! It is so good to see routines resume in your little corner of La Belle France.
Such a sweet little girl, the world needs her for a long time to come.
Hari OM
Cheers for Sophie's recovery - and boos for bozo polluters. YAM xx
Z=Zany
I'm so glad the Sophie has gotten through this and that you have such good vets to care for her. I also enjoyed the list of advice and agreed with so much of it that I now feel I must try once again to get myself to use a password manager. We will be leaving Ohio for home tomorrow. It has been an interesting visit. We are clearly in Trump territory, but everyone has been entirely welcoming to our obviously "diverse" family. And there are wildflowers and blossoming trees everywhere - fields of purple where the corn will be in a couple of months. Time to go reunite with Charlie now, however. I was relieved to see that poodles do well in the longevity tables, but skeptical that breed has not much to do with personality.
The color looks like it could come from a purple highlighter marker, so what do you think of Highlighter French Violet? So glad that Sophie is on the mend but boo to the toxic polluter. Very selfish...dumping pesticides has far-reaching effects.
My first thought about the colour of the flower was Indigo - so unusual to find in nature.
So relieved that Sophie is back to normal - we all had a worrying few days.
Many years ago a neighbour of mine lost her dog. It was poisoned when it drank from a puddle on their walk over the local golf course. Several other dogs fell ill using the same walk and it was found that someone had been dumping anti-freeze where the rain had collected into puddles. I wondered at first if Sophie may have fallen foul of something similar, but hopefully you are too rural for that to happen.
So glad Sophie has recovered and is doing well.
As to the colour of the flower, I would call it heliotrope or ultraviolet.
Vancouver Barbara
SO happy to read she's okay!
xx,
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Sophie had a lucky escape, how fortunate she is to have you and the font so vigilant and caring. That she might have been poisoned by chemicals used by local farmers is the first thing that sprung to mind when she was ill. Our friend's cat was not so lucky. By the time she was found, suffering a horrible slow death, it was too late to save her. Farmers have a lot to answer for.
Glad to hear that Sophie is doing so well!
So glad Sophie is better. Does the vet's conclusion mean no more long drinks from the stream for Sophie, just in case farmers upstream are using chemicals that run off into the water your girl drinks?
Go Sophie !!!
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