11 February 2019

Missed it by that much!

The SandCastle Queen noticed her CCW had expired.  She called DPS to find out what happened to her expiration warning and what will it take to get it renewed.

Turns out they sent the reminder to the old SandCastle address and now she is 9 days past the "renewal" process and back to "new permit process".  She doesn't have to retake the class nor requalify but she needs a new fingerprint card and the renewal costs a bit more.

Fortunately an old neighbor is in the business and hopefully can fix her up.


07 February 2019

Losing a pet....

... Always sucks.

In this case it was a 16 YO cat the SCSon named "Lear".  I need to find a picture to import here.

She had always been somewhat sickly.  Shortly after adoption she needed some serious intervention to cure "intestinal bugs".  We got her as a rescue and I'd like to think we gave her a good home for the past 16 yrs.   More recently the SCQueen secured special dietary feed and the cat had lost a lot of weight.  She was pretty much skin & bones :-(

Now that Arizona is in our cold season, She spent her time in the "Warm Spots" she found in the house.  Some times that was following sunbeams through the South facing windows, but also the corner of he refrigerator where heat is exhausted.

Lately she had pretty much lost control of her bowels, leaving calling cards all over the house.  Fortunately most of the Sand Castle is tiled so cleanup is relatively easy compared to other flooring systems, even if messy and inconvenient.

Today she succumbed to her ails at home, in comfort and accompanied by the SCSon.

Still sucks to lose a pet.