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bye Max

Max the guinea pig passed the night before we got home. He wasn't doing well before we left so it wasn't a surprise. He joins Arthur and Medea and Hermione.

bye Hermione

Yet another obituary. I lost my bunny Hermione this morning. She died on the way to the vet. I think she developed pneumonia. I was very quick, she had only been acting lethargic a couple of days. This morning her breathing was labored, so I packed her up and headed for the emergency vet. By the time I got there, she was gone. She started eating last night so I thought she was on the mend. It's hard to tell with bunnies what's wrong or how bad it is.

I'm getting really tired of loss.

Odetta

Folk singer Odetta is gone. Arthur and I went to one of her concerts at Jazz Alley a few years ago and it was memorable. Her music can be heard on Pandora Internet Radio.

enough already

As if things weren't bad enough...

Medea the guinea pig died Saturday night. Don't know why, but I suspect some sort of cancer. She wasn't displaying any unusual behavior. She came up to be fed as usual Saturday evening, but when I came upstairs from watching a movie, she was gone. She is buried under a beautiful hydrangea by my front steps with some of Arthur's ashes.

We lost Epsilon the betta on Friday. He was our lab trailer mascot.

I've written about Michelle's tragedy already. Another of our co-workers suffered a tragedy this weekend also. Barbara's three nieces were killed in a house fire on Saturday. They were 10, 11 and 13.

Nobody here at work is functioning very well today. I'm sure not.

friends

Just came home from dinner with Susan and Jonell. Both are from the old days at Busch Gardens. We've changed yet we haven't. Talk about Arthur, talk about Rusty and a third I didn't know about. Al was Arthur's best friend during the Busch days. He had some hard times and also succumbed to alcoholism a few years ago. Turns out he led the way. I hadn't heard, but wasn't surprised. So there's three of them sitting around the breakroom table on the other side.

alcoholism sucks

I heard this morning another old friend from the Busch Gardens German show died this past week of the direct result of alcoholism. I knew he had a problem. I don't know if he ever tried to shake it. He was a month older than Arthur. I hadn't seen him in years, but it's really getting under my skin.

Bye Rusty, say hi to Arthur for me.

R.I.P Highlander

My car got totaled.

Mortimer was out with friends and was hit by a drunk driver with no insurance. He wasn't driving and no one in my car was hurt. Right now I'm waiting for the insurance company to go through it's process. In theory, I have very good insurance. I'm just not thrilled about putting it to the test. We still have the truck at least, but now Arthur and I have to share, at least for a while

What a pain..

bye Jimmy

We lost Jimmy the spookbunny this evening. It was unexpected and that is about all I'm up to saying at the moment. We will miss our white bunny.

Heronswood R.I.P.

The most wonderful nursery and display garden has closed thanks to the corporate bottom line.

DMontgo, Peggy and I are in mourning, along with quite a large number of gardeners all over.

Their website is still up for now. I found another with a few pictures of the display gardens.

Hookcat

Heidi, my next door neighbor, just told me Hookcat passed away lat week. He was 15. He suddenly went into renal failure and she had to have him put to sleep. He was a kitten till the end, and the most lovable cat I have ever known. He was making a determined effort to move in here in the last couple of months and probably would have succeeded if he hadn't been afraid of Siegfried the rabbit.

We will all miss you Hook.