Sanderson's Diary, October 2006

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October 2

Well, I found out today that the allergies I thought I had turned out to be an upper respiratory virus. Oh joy!  I get to swallow a pill to keep it from settling into my lungs, and a pill to make the cough go away. The good thing is that I have a lot of fun spitting out the pills and making Mom catch them and try to make me swallow them again.  Okay, she wins, because I am somehow a captive audience, but I give her a run for her money.  She’s got to pop each pill directly down the middle of my throat, or she can expect to see it again.  That’s what she gets for taking me to the Vet. 

Speaking of my doctor, I think I was insulted. He looked at my recorded weight and then looked at Mom and said, “He seems to like his food, doesn’t he?”  Hey, I don’t make fun of his glasses!  Doesn’t anyone ever give a guy a break?,

October 7

I’d feel a lot better if I didn’t have to swallow these pills, but at least the cough has gone away and my appetite has returned to normal.  (Never fear, I am not about to lose weight!)

October 11

I think the deer are going to go into rut pretty soon, because the boy deer have been showing up early in the morning and acting really frisky, chasing each other around, jumping over the stream, and looking amorously into the pond (don’t ask me why, I just report what I see!). And the girl deer are looking over their shoulders nervously, like they remember what happened last year and don’t want any more kids!

Jack and Jill (the resident rabbits) are acting pretty frisky as well. But with them it’s hard to tell, ‘cause rabbits are pretty frisky all the time, I mean, isn’t the rabbit libido generally operating at peak performance?  Come to think of it, though, I didn’t see any Jackettes or Jillaroos when the deer showed up with the little guys with the spotty butts. Makes me wonder, are rabbits on the same schedule as deer?

October 20

I decided it was time to play hide-and-seek while Mom was busy on the computer, so I opened the door to the utility room and got up on the washing machine.  I must have shut the door behind myself, because when I woke up from my nap, Mom had decided to join into the game and was looking for me.  Surprise!  I was in plain sight. You just had to be in the right room!  Mom won, because she found me, but I won, because I got brushed and fed.  I guess we’ll have to have a tie breaker later.

October 31

Tonight is Halloween.  Mom is having some friends over and we’re going to have Killer Dip. One of them is bound to let me have a taste.  By the way, the recipe is in my Cookbook if you’re interested.   I’m not sure what they are going as, but I’m going as a cat. Takes all the fuss out of costume design. 

Check back now and then. I'll keep you posted on the latest developments! Hope to see you soon.

Sanderson