Monday, May 17, 2010

5/17/2010 - Life's ebbs, flows, and riptides

Lana and Bob Senge are declaring bankruptcy, giving up their house and moving to Ocala, Florida, to the home of their recently passed mother. She's heartbroken but she is dealing with the move - the furniture, the kitchen ware, the cats and the bird. Staci finished mom's hair, delicately and finely in the basement of her home as Jericho, their Basenji-like dog, full of vigor danced and played with me. Ron called and we touched base after months. He and Kathy are preparing a June 5th graduation party for their daughter, Becca, who they thought, at birth, a sufferer of PK syndrome, might never see this day. It will be a full day celebration beginning in the early afternoon at their home in Ridley Park, PA (330 W. Ridley Avenue). Gail Emerson called. Her mother died in mid-April and she's already been to her home and cleaned it out with the help of a group of friends. We will meet this Saturday at the Farmhouse Restaurant @ 6:30 p.m. and perhaps later move to her home and meet her new, "gorgeous cat", Rugby, a Bengali.

A troubling loss of Dancer's leash. Came home w/milk and chewies for her. Took one out of the plastic wrapping and must not have hooked her to the line outside. Later, took a phone call from mother/son on Kingsgate (the same, attractive middle-aged woman who found a cute dog on Sunday and was keeping it for its owner, who got the dog later in the day driving by) who had Dancer. The leash had been chewed off. Had to have been done by Dancer but I don't know how ... went to Pet Smart first and then to Walmart to pick up another one and another solid chew toy. Waste of time and money and most of all, a demonstration of diminishing cognitive attention to detail.

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