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I am thinking of growing an heirloom tomato next summer, rather than the Arctic Plenty variety I grew this year. I think that now with my indoor grow light kit, if I start the plants early they might have a hope of ripening before frost. A short growing time was my main reason for planting...

It sounds like fluids would help him more than anything. That is something that a locum could easily do. I used to give sub-cutaneous fluids to my elderly cats whose kidneys were no longer working very well, and it helped them a great deal. Maybe you could take him for fluid treatment once or...

Government messing around with health care systems - we have the same sort of problems here, made worse by our for-profit health care structure.

Good music to move to.

I'm glad things are looking better for your cat. He looks very comfortable in that sunny window. I'm guessing that the locums in your country must be something like a physician's assistant or a veterinary technician here in the US, and both can do many of the things that a doctor or...

It crossed my mind, believe me! LOL I don't think so, not in the sense of old age dementia. I had a collie who in his last year would walk into a corner and then be unable to figure out how to get out. I'd have to help him. But this isn't like that. I do think Mabel has mental/emotional...

I was kidding. Mabel is not actually self-banished to the great outdoors but just to the confines of a large fenced in yard, with shelter freely available in a little den under the porch and above ground inside the enclosed back porch that leads to the kitchen, furnished with cushy dog beds...

Be careful. Medicare would never contact anyone by phone. If you have questions go to their actual website or call them using their official phone number or official website that is printed on their official literature or on your Medicare card. Never give out your SS or Medicare # over the...

Thanks for the suggestion, but it's covered in in outdoor carpeting, aka astroturf, a comfortable non-slip surface. She and other dogs before her have used this same ramp for decades. She spent all day yesterday running in circles and barking to express her dislike of the new set-up. Finally...

Sounds likely.

You're not wrong! The names I've been calling this animal, I can't print here. But when it comes down to it, she is her own worst enemy. Clearly I have to do something to save her life, so I've been reviewing my options. First would be to return the ramps to their summer configuration and...

We had a surprise snowstorm on Thanksgiving. Heavy wet snow that caused a lot of power outages statewide. Fortunately most of it melted yesterday, and there are just a few inches remaining if that.

Well our old emergency fund was some years ago, and everything was less expensive back then. Still I think a savings account for the purpose is a better bet than insurance. Do you have a different vet you could take your kitty to? This one sounds like a corporate over-priced waste of your...

OK Bay, you have a sheep with SMS (stupid mother syndrome) but I'll go you one better. I have a sheltie with SDS (stupid dog syndrome). To explain: These are 2 photos of the summer configuration of the ramps leading off the back porch. Each of these 4 ramp parts is approximately 12 inches...

That's so funny, and so cool that you found it at long last.

I've never been big on pet health insurance. Even when we were living dollar-to-dollar I simply kept $1,000. on hand. That would've covered most vet emergency surgeries or other expenses, and we could have come up with the rest if treatment exceeded that one grand.

Doesn't "propagation" also describe growing a plant from seed?

Here's wishing a Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow gardeners! My house is still torn up from recent home repairs which are thankfully at an end. The door I kicked has been replaced, exterior light fixture also successfully replaced, and best of all the cheapo vinyl window in upstairs...

I don't care; they'll always be flip-flops to me. But I'm old and stubbornly refuse to change. I refuse to call grated lemon rind "lemon zest." "Middle school" will always be junior high to me, and probably a host of other reinvented words have passed me by.

A subset of collies and other herding dogs have a sensitivity to ivermectin and other drugs in that same class when given over a certain dosage. This research was conducted in the 1980s when this sensitivity was discovered - it is a failing in the blood/brain barrier. You can have a collie...