~another day, another harvest~
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Thank goodness for the garden.
Sweet bell peppers, cubanelles, a tomato, and more red potatoes - all, except for the tomato, are roasting in my oven as I type this. A little olive oil, a little lemon - some garlic. All good.
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The heat has been a bit overwhelming for the past few days - it's August heat, even bad August heat - not mid-June weather. The quick, pop-up showers have all missed my little piece of land, and I've been trying to water so me in the evening, slowly making my way around the acre, stopping at plants that are more sensitive to the dryness. It helps - but for the most part everything has stopped dead in it's track - no growth, no new flowers forming - instead, everything is just holding on, hoping for a break in the weather.
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It's been a trying few days - on Friday evening I was downloading Windows updates, and on Saturday morning my computer wouldn't boot. Fortunately at the lab there is a great IT group, and they've been troubleshooting the problem for me -- only to find no answer so far. At first we thought it was a hard drive gone bad, but the diagnostics didn't validate this hypothesis.(Thankfully, everything was saved on my hard drive - except for several programs, including - bummer - photoshop). Tomorrow we'll test the system with another hard drive (that we know works) to see if it wasn't about the hard drive after all.
So I'm in the middle of a proposal - and then my computer crashed. Ugh. I did get a loaner from work - and that is helping - but it's not a comfortable keyboard and of course I don't have all of my files. I'm making do.
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This morning, early, as I was working on the proposal - Annabelle Lee vomited. I didn't think about it when she did it once (although she isn't a dog who regularly vomits at all) - but by the sixth time (along with her inability to keep water or even a small piece of food down) I began to worry.
So I took her to the vet - and the good news is that it doesn't seem like something obstructing her digestive tract - and our 'working hypothesis' is that she ate something toxic, most likely a skink - or something similar. So she's had a shot of anti-nauseous meds, can't eat anything again until tomorrow (and then only a bit of ID at a time) and was given some subcutaneous fluids (I was worried about her dehydrating since she couldn't keep water down).
She seems good this evening - she's asleep but isn't lethargic and doesn't seem uncomfortable at all.
Silly skink eater.
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It's always something, isn't it?
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I need something good to happen.
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