Tuesday, August 06, 2024
Yesterday was quite a day. To start everything off, the world’s stock markets tanked, reeling all economies. After reading the major newspapers, I set aside world issues to take care of my animals. I was concerned about my donkey, Pimmy. She’s been separated from her horse buddies and living in the barn area to ease the routines of capturing and medicating her. She wasn’t happy but was adjusting and could be treated.
Then, I took my two most elderly dogs, Miles and Osix, to a new (to us) veterinarian. The dogs were found reasonably healthy. Miles has some arthritis and Osix is as flexible as a puppy. But both had big coats, tangled with cheat-grass seeds. So, their butts were shaved, and now, they’re very funny-looking.
While I waited for the dogs, a long-ago high school friend called. We hadn’t talked in a long while and had only a brief time to catch up. Afterward, while leaving the clinic with my dogs, my phone rang again, this time from another person I’d not talked with in a long while. While driving home, I held the phone and talked (yes, that’s illegal).
At home, I released the dogs and wanted an icy beer, so I headed to a nearby supermarket—a busy Safeway that might become a Piggly Wiggly (yet another story related to the economy). I came home and sat outside with my beer watching the lingering alpenglow, brightly intensified by active wildfires.
Yesterday entirely felt like a crash. Today, the world’s markets seem to be recovering, and I have simple and straightforward plans and a calmer perspective. Now, phase one of dog care is complete, and phase two (with the younger dogs) will happen on Thursday. Meanwhile, these are calmer moments for better catching up with my surprising and welcome callers.
Dear Friends: Today, the world will start to know Kamala’s selected VP candidate. Diana
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