"I can see clearly now...

...the rain is gone." It's a bright sunny day here after all the storms and rain that blew through yesterday. It was really windy before the storms and they came in fast and hard. I don't know how much rain we had for sure but it was a lot. It made a little grand canyon in our driveway. It was already started but it's really something now. A had to ride the edge to get her little car down the driveway. Currently Misty is "helping" me type and the dogs are growling at each other for ownership of a dead rabbit that they dragged home from somewhere. Just a regular day here. Speaking of regular days, when we came home from our trip I took pics of our table and counter and asked my friends/family who else they knew who had a fish and a boat motor part on their kitchen table...(the paper bag is a bottle of barbecue sauce) I got answers like "you", "only you", "us" (from A) and "it could be worse". Then I sent them this one and asked, "...and tangerines and fossils on their counter?" I got answers like, "yup, only you", "you do get some strange things on your counter and table", and "yup, it could be worse."

Dexter is doing ok. He is eating and drinking a little. He developed diarrhea over the weekend. Sigh...I asked the vet if there was anything we should do about that. They just said to make sure his bottom is clean so he doesn't get "stopped up". Ewww!!! That was fun. Here is a pic of Dexter's pharmacy, also on my kitchen counter. He is only on two meds, antibiotics and steroids, but he has to take 4 bottles of the antibiotics. He is on his third. The two in the back are empties.

And just because this cat has more personality than some people I know, here is a pic of Misty. She is so incredibly cute. J's attitude yesterday and so far today has been great. And he did his math by himself last night. For the record, he is rocking his 6th grade math (which was 8th grade math a few short years ago) better than half his class. He just has a lapse in the long division area. He's clueless. His ESL teacher, bless her, pointed out that he learned multiple digit adding and subtracting, borrowing and carrying, multiplication and division all in about 7 months. No wonder he has a lapse in one of those areas. What he's getting this year is one thing building on another so he's doing well and don't tell him but next year they will just let him use a calculator for the long division. I also asked her about his reading and she said he's on target for his reading level, not for his age but for his reading level. He does things similar to her other ESL students. Thanks Ms. N!