cw: pet death. (If you missed yesterday’s post, Ellie died yesterday.) Every time someone set off fireworks last night, I thought about how Ellie used to be so scared of them when she was younger. She got used to them eventually, but the 4th was a tough time for her. In her last years, Ellie […]
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cw: pet death … … … … … Elinor (Ellie) Whyte, 2005 – 2023. We adopted her when she was about a year old — these pics are from that day. We named her Elinor, from Sense & Sensibility, because I’m Mary Anne. Ellie left us today, at about eighteen years old, which is a
Last night in front of the TV. (Kevin and I are watching a funny British comedy now, _Catastrophe_.) Ellie just had a vet appointment; she’s lost another five pounds in the last three months. She’s eighteen years old now, which is ancient, but she still seems pretty happy. Hopefully we have a few more months
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Photo of Ellie and Arya, courtesy Jed. And yes, when Arya chooses to sleep on that step, he is taking both his life and our lives in his paws.
Ellie with the crocuses. She’s an old slow girl, now, but she loves going out and sniffing the air while I’m puttering in the garden.
Heh. Neighbor passing by when I was pruning shrubs, commented: “You match your house! And the cat and dog on the porch — it looks like a picture postcard!” All true.
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Dropped off Ellie at the Animal Hospital for a week of boarding. She may be a geriatric old lady — she’s something like a 100 in dog years — and they may have had me sign a DNR for her, just in case, but when she smiles like this, she looks just like the dog
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What I want to be doing is puttering in the garden with my pets for company, and there’ll be some of that later, but first, I do have to get through at least a little computer work today. Angeli Primlani and I agreed to sign up together for a local screenwriting class (I say local,
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Ellie and Arya checking out the newly rearranged living room, and each other.
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