Our buddy Smurph

Smurph was euthanized today, just too much irreversible damage to his liver and hind legs. The vet thought at best he had a few weeks left, but they would have unpleasant weeks...RIP buddy!! As you can see he was quite active in our lives..

Not good

Smurph's blood work shows high numbers that reveal a damaged liver. The vet is waiting for one more piece of information before we decide what to do, but if Smurph doesn't start using his hind legs by Thursday, then we will have to let him go because I don't believe in keeping an animal alive if they can't eat, drink or are able to walk...it just isn't a good life, rather I believe in releasing them from the life of pain and indignity...but it won't be easy..he's my buddy over all the other cats....rough week ahead..

Hard times

A note to remember due to the extreme cold..-40 to -50 these last two days and 2 weeks ago, students have not had a full week of school since the week before Christmas...hard to believe.

Smurph had another seizure yesterday, he now has limited use of his back legs. The vet thinks a blood clot moved during the seizure. His heart sounds fine so blood was drawn and they will let me know later today as to what is going on. Apparently it is not good if they begin to seizure after they are 5 years old, and he is and the vet isn't sure if his back end weakness will recover...so we wait.

I have also turned down our house temp to 60 to help us from using up the 300 gallons of LP we have left before it warms up..wish us luck!!

Crazy weekend

Crazy weekend.....Friday night and Saturday I had my admin class, and also on Saturday, Tuki had a BB tourney and my friend Pam took her and Ve to it, then this morning we ushered at church and Ve had a BB tourney, and her coach brought her tot he tourney for me. I managed to get a 2 hour nap in today since I didn't go to the tourney. Tuki's team took 3rd, and finally got a medal..happy girl and Ve's team took 4th...I also went shopping today especially since we will two days of extreme cold again...and now I am also concerned about the LP crisis. We only have 300 gallons left in the tank, the state is in a shortage and the prices have gone sky high so I have turned down the house temp to 60 degrees in hopes I won't have to have the tank filled at $6.00/gallon.......sometimes is is one thing or another!!

Another two days off means we will have more days tacked to the end of the year......boy or boy what a cold year!!!

I am ready for seed catalogs....

Random photos

 skating

 Bob and Pam

 Zambo

 skating

 after their Christmas concert

 opening presents

 the three amigo cousins

 opening presents

 Chris and Amy

 Me and my peeling face after the chemical peel

 our overwintering snapping turtles

Tuki's BB Tourney

sMurph is better

today, must have not been cardiac failure, it sure looked like it...he is even crabby again..YEAH!!! I am glad I was wrong but it sure did look like it to me based on my vet tech days..

sMurph

is in cardiac failure..he is getting weaker by the day...my boy:(

Wind Chill does us in

School is closed today AND tomorrow since our temp are -22 and lower but with the windchill it is currently a - 47 below..thank goodness we live in town, our furnace s working (went out last Monday) and we insulted the chicken coop...so far we have lost only 3 birds this winter.....So another two days off

Ve's BB tourney today with a new camera