so i had some food for the strays in the back of my car in a big rubbermaid container. when i cleaned my car the other day, i discovered there were bugs in the food. i explained what happened to chris and set the container on the front step, intending to dump the food into the canal. chris instead buried it in a hole the dogs had dug on the side of the house. then he covered it with a big cement planter so they couldn't dig to get at it.
when we got back from the boat ride on saturday, buddy wasn't waiting for us. when i called for him, he came running from the side of the house, covered in sand. wonderful.
so all weekend, the dogs have been working on the hole and the cat food. it was an 18-gallon container 3/4 full of cat food. gretchey literally has gotten fat just over the past few days - a big, distended belly. and she got the diarrhea. the other ones seem to be okay, but keep disappearing only to reappear with sand and dirt on their muzzles and paws.
no self control, i tell ya.
i'm mega sore today. even washing my hands today was painful, i swear. i think that means it was a good workout last night.
now i need to get some zzzzzs...
oh, yeah, btw, the car dealer is STILL calling me. like, dude, you've called 12 times. give it up already!
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
