Aren't We Fortunate!

President Obama. Finally, after eight years, we have a leader we can respect. Obviously, he and his administration cannot make the necessary changes over-night but he has already been able to instill hope in the heart of our nation. Tuesday, January 20, 2009 is a great day in the history of the USA. One persons's opinion...and still smiling.

Update on Mia

All is well for now. A second opinion finds Mia does not have cancer after all but does have allergies. After another round of antibiotics and lots of TLC she is back to herself. Also, I had forgotten her birthdate and was reminded that she is 18.5 years old. I'm very happy she will be with me for a while yet.

Sorry...caught a new virus and had to heal my computer.

Ugh! HP was not even aware of this spyware...goes by different names but ends in 2010, the newest version. Appears to capture personal data and after an initial charge to your credit card, continues charging. Difficult to get it stopped. My CC helped and all is taken care of. I did not have a lot on this computer so just downloaded and did a complete system recovery and reloaded my software. Like a new computer now. Hannah, my daughter is a computer wizard so I called her immediately and she advised me to stop the progression??? and shut it all down until she could research it. Then we went from there. I really wish people that are intelligent enough to design these invasive predatory programs would re-direct their talents toward creating useful and positive programs to benefit the world. Such a waste of talents.

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If you stop by to read my blog, please check out the photos on this blog. They are fantastic. What beautiful and dramatic countryside.

Mia

...my furry little angel is not feeling well. The vet thinks she has cancer. I will not let them operate as it would be exploratory and "if" they found cancer, it would mean amputating a leg. At her age of 15.5 years, I just cannot see taking that chance. If it were me in the same circumstance I would not want to loose a leg just to live a few more months and she is older than me. Meanwhile, she has tumors that appear and open up, then go down and heal. It seems that stress and trauma bring on the bouts and amoxicillin seems to speed the healing. This time, she seems to want me with her and she just wants to put a paw on my arm or my face. I am sure she understands what I tell her but I wish I could better understand her language. She has had her first dose of the medicine tonight along with a little of the organic chicken breast I boiled in organic 33% sodium free chicken broth along with a little lite salt, touch of garlic powder and a few little pieces of onion. She is very partial to the chicken and it does seem to be giving her some energy.

It is amazing how comforting our furry friends and family are in our lives. I think it would be a very sad and lonely world without them. As for love, they offer the purest love without conditions. What a precious gift they are.

By the way, Mia is a seal-point siamese. I got her from an elderly couple about 5 years ago. They were moving into an assisted living facility and could only take one pet....their choice was the little dog and Mia had to find a new home. Thank goodness, it was with me.