It's Monsoon Season!

It's Monsoon Season!

It's so beautiful here, even when it's raining.

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I went upstairs and...

I went upstairs and the bottom of the bathtub was covered in diarrhea. My poor Balthi. 😢

He had it on one of his back feet, so I got a wipe to help clean him. Every cat who's foot I've ever tried to clean has pulled away.

Not Balthi, y'all. He spread his toes. 😭😭😭

We are having a bad cat day. 🙁

We are having a bad cat day. 🙁

I don't think Balthazar's prednisone is helping his intestines anymore. His diarrhea is back even while on it. He sweetly bit my toes when I went to bed last night so he's still himself, but I feel like he won't be with us much longer. He seems to be fading very slowly and I won't let him suffer.

Someone peed orange (or possibly blood-tinged urine) on the dining room carpet. Toebean has been running around meowing all day. We checked his butt-end and his butthole doesn't look well. I don't know if those things are related, but our vet does surgeries on Monday and doesn't usually see patients, but they have been great about working us in as a drop-off if we need it. Well, we need it, so we're going to call first thing and see if they can see him (and Ash for her diarrhea).

Fun times. I hope these kittens will be ok. We sure do love them and hate to see them unwell.

Is this my life now? Saving buggy bois from drowning?

Is this my life now? Saving buggy bois from drowning?

I have a feeling that me and Shadow will be constantly saving bugs. Poor kid. He's definitely mine with his soft heart. We can't just watch someone struggle and do nothing if we have the ability.

The pool guys came yesterday and started up our pumps and filters and all that. They told us what chemicals and amounts to add last night. They left some cleaning equipment and showed us how to use it. Shaun vacuumed and skimmed the pool yesterday. Shadow and Kira took turns skimming yesterday evening. Our cover will be installed on Monday, so until then stuff will be blowing in.

Shaun tested the water today and the chemicals aren't quite right yet. I think he's having a good time with all of this maintenance stuff.

At some point in the near future the pool company will schedule a time to come over and do "pool school" to make sure we know how to take care of everything. They will also bring our robot vacuum and teach us about it. So that should be pretty fun.

Supposedly, we are cleared by the pool company to swim this weekend. The pool still has final inspections to pass, but it's basically done. We might test it out later when the kids are ready. Kira wants our first official swim to be as a family, so that's the plan.

A yellow bloom and an orange bloom.

A yellow bloom and an orange bloom.

Also - thanks, Bear. 😑

Better view of yesterday.

Better view of yesterday.

Y'all, I can't help myself in the moment because he cracks me up, but afterwards I always feel like such a jerk for laughing at him. He is clearly impaired, both physically and mentally - at least a little. And I laugh at him.

For what it's worth I don't think he cares one bit, and I would defend him with my life and spend all my money fixing his broken body so he can live his high-energy-drive best life. But I don't think those things exempt me from being a jerk.

I have issues. 😅 A beautiful, weird, janky dog. And issues. 😂

So maybe 10 days ago...

So maybe 10 days ago, Bear bit me on my toe. It only bled a little, but it ached for DAYS.

This child is SO BORED from not being allowed to play for so long that when he lays up under the kitchen table (which is usually where he is when he not with us or crated at night) that he's begun chewing the bars on the bottom of our chairs.

The other day when I was eating cereal and he started chewing my chair I didn't want to get up at that exact moment to get him a toy, so I corrected him and put my foot on the bar as a deterrent. No sooner than I sat my foot down, he bit my 2nd toe with his top teeth and the bottom of the chair bar with his bottom teeth and it wasn't super fun for me. He was biting with back teeth and "chew" force and I really don't think he realized that I was there.

I feel like he's often not super aware of things with the way he's so clumsy. 😂 He's also really stubborn when we try to retrieve things from inside his mouth. Most dogs who's mouths I've had the pleasure of shoving my hand in have tried to back away or turn their heads or something. Not Bear. He continues chewing down hard - your hand be damned. 😂

I don't know why he's like this. There is maybe a good bit I don't understand about him. But I love him and he keeps life interesting and he's my toddler baby, so there's that. ❤️