Womens World Cup Slalom - 2014 Aspen Winternationals

Stiegler ended up, I think 6th, but took this picture when she was #1!

Thanksgiving

Gunnar's been diagnosed with acute renal failure.  See him under the table?  He had a bad day with blood in his diarrhea.  Going back to Vet in the morning.  He has a continuously changing smorgasbord.  Today it's Whole Foods turkey (which he used to eat slightly warmed up but now prefers dried and crunchy), canned calms, and rice with beef gravy, and of course tuna juice.  Only thing he eats is Temptations treats and tuna juice.  Poor little guy,



Bruce is going to learn how to home hydrate him tomorrow.

How would you like to find this outside your dining room window?

Just to add a little humor in a humorless day...

Bob dressed up the punch man like this.  It scares the sh*t out me everytime I catch the image out of the corner of my eye!

Bruce is doing good enough that I'm returning home on Thursday.  Gunnar is back in the Vet hospital with kidney failure and is not happy about being there.  I'm hoping I can bring him home on Friday; test results from biopsies expected on Saturday.

Bouncing between the most critical need is taking a toll.  I'm exhausted.  A big THANK YOU to Patti for filling in for me with Gunnar.  I just can't be in two places at once.

Release from the hospital after 3 nights

Gunnar also got released for a few days.  Both patients go back to the doctors for evaluation on Tuesday.

Lani The Bird in California

Baby it's cold outside

From shorts in 60 degrees earlier this week to down parka.
Bruce's hernia/abdominal repair surgery was successful today but will be staying in the hospital for at least 3-5 days.  I fly to CA on Friday to tend to him.  There's nothing I can do for him when he's on morphine at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach.
Gunnar is also in the animal hospital at least for over-nite because he wasn't eating. Running tests and shaving his beautiful belly fur for an ultrasound.  Lots of snow predicted for Friday; hope I get to fly out as all afternoon flights were cancelled today.  I had a great day... not.  And I didn't even win anything at Bingo tonight!

First snow at home

Last visit to the Maroon Bells.

No people and so very quiet.

Can this day get any better?

 It started at 8 am this morning... the smoke detector started beeping.  After removing 4, yes 4 different types detectors, (couldn't determine which one was chirping as there were 4 grouped together) I was able to disable it with the help of a lovely 20' ladder,

At exactly midnight, the carbon monoxide detector went off in a different location.  It was freaking the kitties out and I didn't know what to do because my batteries, light blubs and filter man is currently in North Carolina and hasn't answered his phone all day.  So I called 911 and had 2 fire trucks and one fire/rescue truck with lights blazing, and 5 guys and a gal at my front door.

Turns out the "plug in" monoxide detector has batteries in it too.  (I could have done that if I had known)

Maybe I should have taken the darn device into the garage and closed it up in the car??

Sven made some new friends and Gunnar is under the bed covers for protection from stranger-danger people.

What a day.....  They report these kind of things in the local paper.  Hope this doesn't make it into the news.