| | Soggy Day Dolly's outer bands have dumped quite a bit of rain on us. I meant to check the rain guage. I forgot. Tomorrow the weather should be clear enough not to interfere with our plans to head to the island. The surf is rough and the water levels are high on the island. The kidlets have been duly warned about that. But it should be a good day for seashell hunting. I collect seashells so I am really looking forward to that. Opus has a brand new apartment. A large rubbermaid container! I planned on getting him some climbing material (tree branches, etc) but the sogginess was prohibitive. He has some new behaviors. His nightly ritual is eat, poop, climb up onto my hand, sit there and groom. Last night he groomed as normal, then began drooling, licking my hands and then rubbing his chin and neck in the possum spit. I began to worry if dinner didn't agree with him (he's on his weaning diet now) but then I figured...this must be a possum thing. I googled that. And sure enough, he was scent marking his "territory."  Then, I accidently knocked down a folded sheet from a shelf above his box and it thudded against it. I could see him napping in his "pouch" (the pocket portion of an old jacket that was consigned to the rag bin) and after the sheet hit, he was "playing possum." It scared the fool out of him, poor baby. It took him a few minutes to calm down and "revive." I fueled up my van yesterday. $135.00. Yeah. Ouch. Time to fix dinner. It's time to make a big grocery shop again. I am dreading that as well. That's my goal for the evening: budget friendly menu planning for next week. |
| | Posted 7/23/2008 7:05 PM - 37 views - 19 comments
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Unfortunately, it was way on the west side. Gas over here is $3.93 so that's not too bad, I guess.
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