Uneventful events of the week . . . .

     We took Ivy in to the vet to be 'sterilized.'  They kept her for the day and returned her to us in the late afternoon with a cone on her head and a bunch of stitches in her belly.  Now she is a Conehead from France.  Get it?  The vet gave us many directions about post-sterilization care.  We think we understood many of them.

     Ford slept with Ivy the night before her operation:

She felt pretty bad when we picked her up.  The vet said she was exaggerating.  But he was wrong.  She felt really bad for a day or two.  Here's what she was like when we picked her up:

She's doing better now -- can't you tell?

     Spring is coming.  During the week there were several days in the high 60s.  The fruit trees are starting to bloom.  We saw a grasshopper and a lizard and several red and black bugs.  These creatures have not been around since summer, so we take their reappearance as a sign of spring.

     Rick Santorum says that 10% of all deaths in The Netherlands happen from euthanasia and that half of all such deaths are involuntary and that people wear bracelets that say "Don't Euthanize Me!"  

 

We saw our Dutch neighbors on the street.  They alerted us to these claims. They countered that he is totally full of onzin, which is word which, in English, would start with a C and rhyme with "snap."  We looked at their wrists and saw no such bracelets . . . .

     The school lunch menu is out.  Fortunately, there is no pink slime on it.

Bye for now . . . . it's bingo tonight at the Espace Cultural.