Sidebar changes

Right before I went to New Mexico, I was editing some changes to my sidebar information for this weblog to get rid of a problem that showed up in MSIE. Although I had saved my templates to my desktop machine, I managed to overwrite the important one in the process. I discovered this right after I overwrote the index template with a default version. So I salvaged what I could until I had time to fix it. I didn’t have time to put in everyting including my photo, the recent comments list, and the categories list.

A rainy day gave me a little time to work on it this afternoon. Thanks to “ETC.”:http://www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc/, I didn’t have to do as much recoding as I had feared I would, since I used the comments code and categories code from the generous examples of code at that site. I wish I had found Jennifer’s site before I coded the stuff the first time.

Rattlesnakes

In Notes From an Eclectic Mind: Snakebit, Rana writes about rattlesnakes. When we moved to Colorado, I had a live and let live, snakes are our friends approach, but three snake bit dogs later, I lost my tolerance. Lacking a shot gun, Jack drove over the one that menaced me in the driveway several years ago.

The best way …

I think I may have discovered the best way to give Lody pills. I had cut a chunk of hotdog, and noticed that the tablet was long and somewhat spindle-shaped. I used a skewer to piece the middle of the hotdog, and pushed the tablet in. Lody gulped it down like a treat while I watched closely to make sure she swallowed everything.

p. I’ve been encouraged recently by the move to tasty drugs for dogs, but a lot of medications used for pets were originally developed for people.

Fotolog

Fotolog has made some changes:

bq. From now on, once a free account posts a photo, they will have 10 minutes to review it, delete and re-upload it if they made a mistake. After that, it will “freeze” – and if they delete it they will NOT recover their upload slot – they will have to wait until the next day for their next upload.

p. Evidently people had been gaming the system to upload more photos than allowed for the free members who are limited to one per day. I have wondered how long this neat service would survive before it fell to the tragedy of the commons, and thought that perhaps they had reached their limit the past few days when I could rarely get a connection.

Boardwalk

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This photo of the boardwalk gives another view of the intense green of the Toronto Islands.

Lody

Lody spent the night in the mudroom with none of the unpleasantness that I described
yesterday. She did complain several times, but the mudroom is sufficiently far from the bedroom that I was able to harden my heart and ignore her. The antibiotic tablets I am giving her are huge, and a challenge to get down her. I am good at giving pills to most dogs, but the long jaw and small throat of a collie can make it difficult when they don’t feel like cooperating.

Odd Day

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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