24 Monday Nov 2008
Posted in animals & pets, friends, health & happiness, home, hospitals, life stuff, love
I am so happy to be home again. Been back for about three hours. Have showered and ‘washed the hospital off me’ and am in my pj’s feeling totally exhausted. But it’s a good kind of exhausted, you know? But I almost didn’t make it home today …
14 Tuesday Oct 2008
Posted in animals & pets, home
And no, I’m not calling him Gordon. In fact, I don’t think I’ll call him anything but extremely cute. I don’t want to get too attached since most geckos that find their way into casa az end up as cat food before very long. But this little guy has been around for the past couple of days, which is kind of a record.
I like him. 🙂
24 Wednesday Sep 2008
Posted in animals & pets, cancer, health & happiness, home
… and after a light snack I’m going to cosy up with cats in bed.
Hasta mañana …
09 Tuesday Sep 2008
Posted in animals & pets, gaaaaa!!!
Normally Sunny is the best-behaved boy at the vet’s.
But not today. Some of you may recall when Sunny had his annual checkup last year and I was told that he had to start taking new meds for his kidneys. I was also told that he should have another blood test in six month’s time to check that his kidneys were still functioning well, but of course stuff like my emergency op and then starting chemo got in the way. And so I decided to make sure he got in for a checkup before I went in for the liver op. . .
21 Thursday Aug 2008
Yesterday I went back to the viveros to 1) find out the name of my mystery plants and 2) get some baby cacti for the bathroom. Nog and I took the rental bikes and when I stopped to take a photo of the entrance I noticed for the first time that it was called Casa Batlló, just like my favourite house in Barcelona.
As soon as I walked in the woman who sold me the Portulaca (which is indeed its proper name, and does not start with a ‘b’) looked up from cleaning a window and said to me by way of a greeting – “It was an orange one!”. Ha! And I told her the second ‘yellow’ one she’d chosen for me also turned out to be orange and we had a good laugh. Guess you had to be there. Anyhow, I then asked about some baby cacti and chose three – again, one euro each. Weirdly, the man who showed me the cactus section (I think the husband of the woman I’d been talking to) also showed me a type that he said people buy to put next to their computers because they absorb static or something? A quick google has come up with this. Maybe I’ll get one next time. Meanwhile, here are the three I bought (well, two cacti and a succulent) …
Afterwards I wandered around the viveros looking for gatitos and found way fewer than on my previous two visits (figures, since I wanted to take pics of them). And it turned out that the proprietors were also camera shy – a real shame because they were both so charming and would have made for a great photo together with their plants and cats. Perhaps I’ll be able to convince them next time (I have a feeling I’ll be going back again).
Below are a few pics showing the general ambience of the place, including a few cats…
casa azahar 