You know your day has been odd when you don’t get around to brushing your hair until 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon. We got home late Wednesday night to find a note from our critter sitter saying she thought our collie Lody had diarrhea. Both dogs seemed fine and happy to see us. Yesterday Lody soiled in the kitchen, so I didn’t give her dinner. She got me up in the middle of the night, and was distressed enough that I regretfully shut her in the mudroom. She soiled in the mudroom, and I panicked when I found blood and mucous in the stool. Since this was about 5:00 am, I knew it would be a long wait before I could talk to my vet at nine. What I found in the mudroom this morning was very similar to what I found from our last collie Siobhan twenty-four hours before she died.
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Month: September 2003
Lake Ontario
This photo of Lake Ontario from the Toronto Islands was taken from the path that runs along the shore. I was surprised by the clear water.
Recent fotolog
Please view some of my most recent photos in Fotolog: Hanlan`s Point, Toronto Islands , Irish , South sky , Late summer sunrise , and Misty Mountains.
Back Home
After I walked out of the airport, I paused to breath the fresh Colorado air. As major cities go, Toronto doesn’t smell _bad_, but it doesn’t smell like Colorado either.
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Toronto Islands Park
On our last full day in Toronto, we went to the “Toronto Islands”:http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/parks/island/index.htm, a short ferry ride from a quay that was a short walk from our hotel.
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Blue Jays
Jack and I just watched the “Toronto Blue Jays”:http://www.bluejays.com win over the New York Yankees 8 to 1. Toronto’s pitcher creamed the Yankees. Jack’s happiness at the Toronto win was tempered by the fact that the Yankees’ relief pitcher was one of his in the fantasy baseball league in which he plays.
Time Warp
In a Globe and Mail article called “Genre in a Time Warp”:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030901/SCIFI/TPEntertainment/TopStories , Hal Niedzviecki discussions his impressions of current science fiction fandom.