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SPF100 sunscreen more effectively protects against sunburn compared with SPF50, according to the findings of a recent study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
For their study, the researchers recruited 199 healthy men and women. Participants wore both sunscreens simultaneously on designated treatment areas during an average 6.1 hours of sun exposure. The researchers evaluated erythema the following day and compared the presence of sunburn and erythema scores between treatment areas.
Immediately following sun exposure, 55.3% of participants were more sunburned on the SPF50 side compared with 5% of participants who were more sunburned on the SPF100 side.
At 1 day post-sun exposure, 40.7% of participants had increased erythema scores on the SPF50 side compared with 13.6% of participants on the SPF100 side.
“SPF100+ sunscreen was significantly more effective in protecting against sunburn than SPF50+ sunscreen in actual-use conditions,” the researchers concluded.
—Melissa Weiss
Reference:
Williams JD, Maitra P, Atillasoy E, Wu MM, Farberg AS, Rigel DS. SPF 100+ sunscreen is more protective against sunburn than SPF 50+ in actual-use: Results of a randomized, double-blind, split-face, natural sunlight exposure, clinical trial [published online December 29, 2017]. J Am Acad Dermatol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2017.12.062.
Especially good to know if one lives in sunny climes, but important everywhere, even in cloudy places! Unfortunately, sunscreen is bad for coral, if one is planning on going into salt water areas with coral. We wear rash guard shirts and leggings in that case. I wear hats to water aerobics three days per week as does everyone else in the class. They did that even before I joined the class! Smart ladies!
PS Lucy is six months old and still is looking for her forever home. We had one planned, but that potential owner changed her mind. Lucy is a blue girl and is sweet, smart and loving.
Infectious canine tracheobronchitis or canine infectious respiratory disease complex has multiple causative agents and its symptoms range from sneezing and bronchitis to inflammation of the throat. In plain English, it is Kennel Cough, the so-called common cold for dogs, which prevails in enclosed, poorly ventilated areas. Just like a child catches a cold at school, your dog can catch a similar type of upper respiratory diseases at doggy daycare or the grooming shop.
Symptoms
Kennel Cough symptoms are usually similar to a human cold, non-life threatening and mild. A hacking cough is a classic symptom of Kennel Cough. Other symptoms include reverse sneezing, fever, lethargy, phlegm, nasal discharge and sneezing. If your dog develops these symptoms, please take him to your veterinarian to ensure it is not canine influenza, which can lead to bronchopneumonia, or inhalant sensitivities, and does not develop into something else. Symptoms usually appear 7-10 days after exposure.
Kennel Cough Causes – It Takes an Army
No one virus, bacterium, or environmental condition can mount an assault on your dog’s body to produce true Kennel Cough. Yes; one perpetrator may be the general, but a general still needs an army to prevail!
1. Environmental and Quality of Life Factors Pet-crowded gathering places such as boarding kennels or animal shelters can typically be the battlegrounds of kennel cough. Stress, parasites, malnutrition, poor ventilation, inadequate hygiene, dust and aerosols can predispose to Kennel Cough.
2. Kennel Cough Complex – Viruses Your dog likely has been vaccinated and immunized for canine distemper virus and canine parvovirus, and they are the two most clinically important “core” vaccine components. I recommend that both of these vaccines be given in my minimal vaccination protocol.
Additionally, the following viruses are lumped within the respiratory “Kennel Cough Complex”: Adenovirus-1 (CAV-1; infectious canine hepatitis virus) has only had one minor occurrence in the US in the past 15 + years (at the Canadian Maritimes, US border area). Vaccines for adenovirus-2 (CAV-2) are given to cross–protect against hepatitis as the vaccines for adenovirus-1 were removed from the market years ago, since they produced viral antigen-antibody deposits within some tissues and the surface of the eyes (“blue eye”). Due to the rarity of infectious canine hepatitis, and the fact that including CAV-2 in routine combination puppy vaccines causes a type of immune suppression for about 10 days, I do not recommend giving this component to puppies. They are vulnerable at this age to other stressors like going to a new home, wormings, food changes etc. The CAV-2 antigen in combo vaccines apparently does not cause this immune suppression when given to adult dogs, although one still has to consider whether to include vaccinating for a disease that is no longer seen. However, if a veterinarian chooses to include this vaccine component in combination shots, the immunity should last approximately seven years.
Parainfluenza (CPI) is non-life threatening and usually clears up within a couple of weeks. It is uncommonly diagnosed and typically not associated with significant clinical disease either, so I do not recommend it as a part of my vaccination protocol. Vaccinated immunity is around 3+ years.
Canine Influenza Virus (CIV) is either the H3N8, for which a vaccine exists but I do not recommend it because the symptoms are mild, or the H3N2 Asian strain that hit the Chicago area in early 2015 and for which no vaccine currently exists. Remember, many other upper respiratory viruses – known and unknown – are everywhere and peak during humid, hot and cooler weather seasons.
3. Kennel Cough Complex – Bacteria Bordetella is the most well-known respiratory bacterium and a very common agent to provoke Kennel Cough but does not need to be present to produce Kennel Cough. This is the same with any other inhaled lesser known bacteria, like Bartonella or Mycoplasma, as they too need one or more aforementioned predisposing factor(s) to create actual Kennel Cough.
Question
So why do many kennels and grooming facilities require Bordetella even though it may or may not be a factor in producing Kennel Cough? My dog is not parasitized, healthy, and up-to-date on viral vaccinations or has high titer levels for viruses.
Answer: It’s usually because of the perceived liability, an insurance issue, or a regional or state law. Essentially, a dog entering a facility could transmit kennel cough-like disease to the other dogs there. BUT, the unvaccinated dog coming into the facility could not transmit anything to others if they were all vaccinated and truly protected, so why not allow minimally vaccinated dogs to enter there, as long as pet caregivers sign a simple paper “holding the facility harmless”, should another dog there get kennel cough a week or so later? Of course, seeing that Bordetella and other upper respiratory vaccines are not 100% efficacious, this whole issue is somewhat moot. In my opinion, we should not be subjecting these dogs to vaccines against upper respiratory viruses or bacteria needlessly, as all vaccines have the potential to cause adverse reactions. Pet guardians who choose not to give these vaccines should have that choice.
Vaccines
Extenuating circumstances do exist where a pet caregiver must give the Bordetella vaccine to board a companion animal. My preference would be in-home pet sitting or having a friend take care of your pet. Things do happen and sometimes pets need to be boarded.
Tips
• Use the oral or intranasal (sniff) versions as they cause the body to release interferon which helps cross-protect against the other upper respiratory viruses. Injectable Bordetella vaccine does not offer this added benefit.
• Ensure that it is ONLY a Bordetella vaccine and not a combination injectable with adenovirus-2 and parainfluenza vaccines.
• Give it at a minimum (NOT a maximum but a minimum) of two weeks before boarding your pet.
W. Jean Dodds, DVM Hemopet / NutriScan 11561 Salinaz Avenue Garden Grove, CA 92843
Larson, Laurie J., Bliss E. Thiel, Patricia Sharp, and Ronald D. Schultz. “A Comparative Study of Protective Immunity Provided by Oral, Intranasal and Parenteral Canine Bordetella Bronchiseptica Vaccines."A Comparative Study of Protective Immunity Provided by Oral, Intranasal and Parenteral Canine Bordetella 11.3 (n.d.): n. pag. The Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine, 2013. Web. <http://www.jarvm.com/articles/Vol11Iss3/Vol11Iss3Schultz.pdf>.
Also consider reading the last listed reference in this list. Ronald Schultz, PhD is one of the top vaccine people in the WORLD. I have attended some of his seminars and was very much influenced by his rational way of thinking and by the research he had done to come to the conclusions he attained.
The three blue babies born here on August 13, 2018 are growing up. The biggest girl is called Mele and the smallest girl is Gigi. The boy is Kip and all are blues. They are a VERY affectionate litter, giving kisses away lavishly. They are brave and have not been afraid to go out into the yard on the grass and look around for trouble from the very beginning. They are climbing up over rocks, into heliconia forests and into our laps as we sit on the grass watching them and hoping they don't bite our toes! Actually, they aren't horrid on the toe biting bit, but it does happen. They are puppies after all!
Nancy Adkins comes down many of the days. Since I have had to chop down banana trees often lately, she uses that as an excuse to come visit the pups. Her goats love banana trees, so they come down to take greens back to the goats and get a chance to smell puppy breath and experience some of the best puppy kisses imaginable. Did you know that a banana tree does not live through more than one life of making bananas? We chop down the tree to get the bananas before the birds and the rats do, and to let the little baby banana trees grow up from around the base of the tree that just gave up its banana bunch. The baby trees are called keikis. Keiki means baby in Hawaiian.
The puppies favorite place to play outside is under my mature macadamia nut tree. It makes wonderful shade. Did you know that macadamia nuts are about the hardest nut to crack? We have a magically wonderful nut cracker that makes it very easy to shell them. Mmmmmmmm. We took about 230 mac nuts to the National Specialty to put into the bags. Some people told me that they had tried to crack them with their teeth. I'll bet that hurt! The right tool makes quite a difference. They are extremely easy to crack with the right cracker
!Early baby picture.
Not much today from the curmudgeon. Have a great weekend! I will.
The curmudgeon has a friend coming from the UK today. Lesley Gosling lives in England, Northumberland, close to the Scottish border, right where Border Terriers come from!!! She has been breeding these guys for near 50 years and is a renowned judge over there and in Europe. She has judged our National Specialty and the Canadian National Specialty. She and I will leave here, the Big Island, and go to the Border Terrier Club of America National Specialty in Greeley, Colorado at the end of her visit here.
The house is in better shape than it has been, as I had some of the mold that covered the walls and things removed using something that supposedly kills the mold. It isn't usually as bad, but we had a very wet winter and now a very wet summer. Mold loves to grow on and in 100 year old houses. I'm starting to think about looking into non-molding siding for the house, IF such exists, either that or paint the house gray! No, I won't paint it gray.
It is raining today. Rats! I need to mow the yards and I therefore need it to stop raining. Kathleen is going to string leis while I mow and clean out the car. I will take Kathleen to work on my way to the airport and then pick her up on our way back. I will have two dogs with me, Henry, who was on loan to us from Lesley for breeding, and one of his daughters who may go back to the UK with Lesley, Lucy.
There are three puppies here too, belonging to Pam Mizuno and out of Addy, one of her BIS dogs. Against all odds, all of these puppies are blues, as Addy is a grizzle. The dad is a blue, but still, the odds would give us at most one blue. Two totally blue litters in a row, same chances. Craziness! These were born on the 13th and are fat and shiny. Two girls, one boy. Boy has a baby name of Twist, and the girls baby names are App and Zip. Addy, the mom, took a few days of me having to search for things she might eat. She is doing better in that category now. I am fixing her deluxe meals, but I'm not having to beg her to eat them any longer. She isn't much into eating the turkey necks though. Reese likes them though and was happy to eat Addy's!
Once again, I am going to give you a link to something important to read. This one tells us why to not be in such a hurry to neuter our animals. Wait at least 18 months, but better never to do it, at least in males. I hope it works.
Dodds Responds to FDA Statement on Canine Heart Disease, Taurine Deficiency and Potential Dietary Causes The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement on July 12, 2018 that it is investigating a possible connection between grain-free diets and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), which is also known as canine heart disease (CHD). Dr. Dodds explains taurine deficiency, references research studies to date, and provides commentary.
It is a bit on the hum drum side here. The back steps are in the process of being painted since they started out white and were covered by brick red/brown stains from the mud here. It will be very nice not to be fighting that mudification!!!
It looks like Tresy, soon to be Gracie, will go to Seattle when I am on my way to Denver for the National Specialty. She will be happy with people who once had a Border Terrier. Chip will travel to the Specialty and then go on to England and his dad will breed a couple of mainland girls before he goes back to Northumberland also. Lucy, one of Myshka's last litter may well go with her dad and brother to the UK. That will leave Myshka, Reese, Mermaid and Jade here with the Curmudgeon and Kathleen. Myshka is looking for a home where there will be someone who will throw the ball for her more than I do! She is a dog that makes a person laugh often. She is a star NoseWork dog and one of the best in this house at coming when called. She is a great dog. Someone will be lucky to get her!
Pam Mizuno's girl will come stay with us to whelp her litter on Sunday. More puppies! Sweet. We will be looking for homes for those puppies too. I hope that some of them stay in Hawaii!
Wish us luck at the National Specialty. I think that there may be three dogs there from Myshka's first litter and one from Reese's litter. We will have fun no matter what.
We went to an AKC Fun Match yesterday in Hilo. Mermaid, aka Mer, beat Chip in the breed ring and took BOB, ie Best of Breed. She took second in the group and then the boy who took the group won Best In Match, a Cairn Terrier from Australia, a very nice boy. I liked him from the moment I saw him. Anyway, Mer went on to take Best Puppy in Match. I only went there to get her more used to the dog show ring plus people and dogs. She is one of those kind of scaredy cats. She got better as the morning progressed. I was pleased since all we had gone for was to initiate her into putting up with people and dogs being all around her. We tried the coffee shop in Hawi today and she was pretty upset by a big black Lab that was there and decided to sit at the table just up and beside ours. Sigh.
Myshka goes to get spayed tomorrow. No more Myshka puppies. Myshka is such a great personality that people love her whenever they get to know her. I am hoping that she will soon find a home with someone who will love her and play ball with her and keep her as happy as she has been here. They will be lucky to get her. She can also keep the rats around their home at bay as she is a wonderful ratter. The mongoose too will keep away as far as I can see. Did I ever tell you that Myshka has the cutest smile one can see. What a girl! Myshka being admired by Peter Green. Isn't she cute?!!!
Pam Mizuno's girl IS pregnant and will come here to have her pups. We will have fun with even more puppies. Pam thinks that there are more than two puppies in her girl! There may well be blue as well as grizzle puppies as the daddy of this litter is a blue.
CONSIDERED ONE OF THE FOREMOST EXPERTS IN PET HEALTHCARE, DR. DODDS FOCUSES ON VACCINATION PROTOCOLS, THYROID ISSUES AND NUTRITION.
VISIT HEMOPET.ORG OR NUTRISCAN.ORG FOR MORE INFORMATION.
The article will not paste. See if you can't find it online. VERY important for all dogs.
The article tells one WHY they should want to vaccinate their dogs the way she says they should be vaccinated. The why and the when are very important.
Dodds Rebuts Incorrect Vaccination Article An article regarding vaccinations was inaccurately attributed to Dr. Dodds and has been circulating. Dr. Dodds reviewed the article, provided rebuttals and updated the vaccination protocol. Try clicking on the blue sentence!
I am a sweaty mess these days, with almost no movement.... I DO move, don't get me wrong! All it takes is a tiny bit of movement and I am a sweaty mess. Such is life in Hawaii. I cannot go to water aerobics for another five days. Had surgery for carpal tunnel on my right hand on the 11th. Stitches out on day 10 and then can get the hand wet. Have been taking excellent care of it. It took the surgeon 12 minutes to do the surgery! WoW! I took acetaminophen once and once only and haven't had to take any pain med since. I'm impressed. Had to fly to Honolulu to do it though. Was back in Kona by noon! Amazing what they can do these days.
No, no one has stepped up to take Tressy yet. Tres means #3 in Spanish. She is a kick. Sweet and active, the perfect terrier puppy. If you know of anyone who wants a sweet girl, let them know to call me or email.
We did fly over the lava fountain, river and steam into the ocean in a helicopter about a week after the first trip we took when we had to turn around because of the vog/fog. We did have a great dinner together after that one though. If you get to Hilo, try Pesto Cafe! Mmmmmmmm.... The ride in a helicopter over the volcano was a trip of a lifetime. If a person were to get a chance to do that, it is well worth the effort. Just a suggestion.
We have about decided to not breed for the next couple of years. That means that Myshka, the Russian girl and Reese, the mainland girl are going into retirement. If anyone is interested in a three year old sweet girl, let me know. Myshka is a blue and tan and Reese is a grizzle. Both are super ratters! They even go after mongoose.
Lesley comes to visit in a bit over a month and then we go to Colorado for the Border Terrier Club of America 2018 National Specialty. We will take Chip with us. He will go on to the UK with Lesley and so will Lucy, one of the girl puppies. Henry will follow once he does his breeding task in California.
Pam Mizuno lives "near" Hilo and runs the zoo there. She has Labradors and Border Terriers and is helping the people who have been run out of their homes by the volcano. She works with the people saving/helping the evacuees until 11:00 PM most nights. Her BT bitch is probably pregnant and will have puppies somewhere around mid-August. I am going to have those puppies here since Pam is so busy she can't have them at her house. So, those gorgeous pups will be up for grabs too. Both their parents have gotten Best In Show ribbons. Quite the accomplishment.
Hi,
Digger needs a new home. He is jealous of the Papillon who took his place in someone's heart. He attacked the Papillon, another boy. Despite being much larger, he didn't kill the Papillon. He could have. Now he is looking for a new home. He has a bunch of agility titles, his JE, junior earthdog title, has done NoseWork and Barn Hunt and is an all around lover. Digger needs a home, as do a litter of girls at my house.
That is another heartbreaker. I had been turning people away because we only had four puppies. Then at the last minute, two families backed out leaving me with three girls to place in homes. Try as I might, I can't remember who the four families were who were sent to check elsewhere for a puppy.
If you know of anyone looking for a feisty little blue girl, there is one here. My friend in the UK wants a blue girl, so she will take Tootsie back with her when she visits in August and I will most likely keep Jade, alias MJ for Myshka Junior, since she reminds us so much of her mother, the sweet Russian girl we have. Their daddy is Henry, the boy from England. Nice boy, nice puppies.
The boy in the litter, Scout, successfully rode in my lap to Maui the other day to be delivered to his new people. They were on their 25th wedding anniversary to Maui at exactly the right time to go to pick up their new family member, Scout. I was privileged to meet them on Maui and tell them why I thought that they needed to do this and that and how to do it! I flew back to Hawaii Island and didn't get too airsick. Never had before, but was on the verge both ways that day. BAD turbulence!
Yesterday Kathleen, Frank, Kyle, Sean, Michelle, and I went to Hilo to take a helicopter ride over the lava flowing into the ocean. The cloud cover and rain were so bad that the flights were cancelled. We will have to try again!!!
So much for the recent news! Have been trying to put puppy pictures on here. Isn't happening! Rats!!!
If I didn't already show you this, Reese, Henry and I did go to Lehua Island to try to find rats. Not sure how many we found or if we found any. It was hot, dry, slippery and interesting. I won't get to go again, the dogs may well go in December. I am not cut out for climbing 45 degree slippery lava. Too scary for a wuss like I am. Whew!!! I didn't fall, but someone else did. He didn't die, thank goodness. Had to have some bones in his hand mended together though. Rats!!!
Anyway, life goes on.
It is raining. I need to bring in the pups.
The Curmudgeon Says Bye for now,
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DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR
SUZANNE D. CASE CHAIRPERSON
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2018
RAT SNIFFING DOGS DEPLOYED TO TRY & FIND REMAINING FEW RATS ON LEHUA
Specially Trained Border Terriers Spend Four Days Scouring the Island
(Lihue) – Henry and Reese are six-year-old and three-year-old Border Terriers respectively, who spent most of last week crisscrossing the rugged, hot, wind-swept terrain of tiny Lehua Island. Lehua is a State Seabird Sanctuary and the site of an intensive restoration project over the past nine months to protect seabirds by removing invasive rats. In 2017, the partners of the Lehua Island Restoration Project applied a conservation bait to remove the population of invasive Pacific rats which eat the chicks of nesting seabirds and devour the native plants that help support a large variety of bird life here.
Since the operation last summer, monitoring teams continue to observe more albatross on Lehua Island than previously seen. There continues to be no sign of rat predation on plants or seabird eggs, something that was commonplace a year ago.
“Whole island eradications are very complex and seeing a few surviving rats is a reflection of this,“ explained Sheri Mann, Kaua‘i Branch Manager for the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW). The Lehua Island Restoration Project Partnership is working to ensure the island is free of invasive rats. An extensive network of motion-triggered cameras picked up seven rat images since last fall and the team is working diligently to address the situation.
That’s where the small dogs come in. Border Terriers have a long-established reputation of being able to pick up the scent of rodents. Henry and Reece are owned by Charlotte Metzler of Hawi, Hawai‘i who along with Certified Professional Dog Trainer Kyoko Johnson of Country Canines spent months preparing the canine pair for their Lehua deployment. The training included trips to O‘ahu’s Ka‘ena Point Natural Area Reserve. The natural environment there closely duplicates what the dogs encountered on Lehua. Johnson said, “The major thing we wanted to do in training is to desensitize the dogs to the presence of seabirds, so they can focus on their task of finding rats above ground or in burrows.”
Once Henry or Reese catch the scent of a rodent their human handlers and monitoring staff with DOFAW and Island Conservation mark the location. Mele Khalsa of Island Conservation remarked, “With the help of these dogs we are able to actively search for recent rat activity and can tailor more effective responses of those specific areas.” Dogs, like the Border Terriers, have been successfully used in other conservation projects around the world.
It was a tough week of sniffing for Henry and Reese. The grass on Lehua currently is well over their heads and much of the ground they traversed is steep, loose, lava rock. While Lehua is only 279 acres in size, its topography made the canine’s rat search very challenging with the need for lots of water and rest stops. Conservation detection dogs have been used previously in Hawai‘i to locate endangered species like the Hawaiian hoary bat and the wedge-tailed shearwater to measure impacts of wind farms. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, one of the partners in the Lehua restoration effort used them in a pilot study to try and detect avian botulism in the koloa maoli, the endangered Hawaiian duck.
During their first deployment to Lehua the dogs showed significant interest in three locations. All of these potential rat burrows were targeted for additional bait application and marked to check in the future. Plans are being made for Henry, Reese, and their handlers to return to Lehua for additional searches.
So, can you imagine what it must be like to live near a volcano? I can't. Those poor people. First a huge earthquake, then cracks in the supposedly stable earth on which they lived and now magma shooting out of the cracks. To date, 26 homes have been destroyed by the lava. More to come most likely. Get those pictures into the Cloud! I think that would be the most important non-living thing I would want to take with me if I were one of the ~1700 people who lived in Leilani Estates when the "VACATE/ESCAPE/EVACUATE" alarm was given. No one has died, so I guess that they all left, although there were some people who said they wouldn't. Poor police and other officials, trying to get people to leave. I think that they are in peril all the time they are there.
“Canine and Feline Vaccination Guidelines.” University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Nov. 2012. Web. 13 Mar. 2017. http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vmth/small_animal/internal_medicine/newsletters/vaccinatio
Dr. Ronald Schultz, DVM, of the University of Wisconsin, the leading vaccine researcher in the world, says to give puppies recombinant DNA vaccine for protection against canine Parvo virus, canine distemper and canine adenovirus (hepatitis.) I heard the other day that Dr. Schultz may be very sick, so we may not have his expertise from here on out. He is the one who lectured AGAINST ever giving the leptospirosis vaccination to our dogs. He made an extremely good case against it, so I have followed his advice.
Yes, pictures. Where the heck are they?
The curmudgeon is VERY irritated. Tried to post pictures, everything seems to have gone awry!
Puppies squeak. They are, but of course, I am always blaming the boy. Aren't they always the squeakiest?!!!! Yes, or so it seems. Still eating nonstop, the babies are growing.
Yes, I found the keys, right where I put them as I was doing something else, and yes, Kathleen knew where the earbuds were as she had taken them and plugged them in to charge. Why would I have looked there?!!!1
Kathleen's car has arrived on the island. I will go to Hilo tomorrow with one of my friends to pick it up. Yippeeeeee!!!
Company coming tonight. They will get to my house about 2300/11:00. I think that they will need a snack. I am going to try a new banana bread recipe with chocolate chips in it.
I will TRY to put some pictures on. It isn't easy.....
Lots of rain, but we are NOT in the flash flood areas. We are probably at about 500' elevation.
The puppies are now two days old, gaining weight every day. They are all blues! Dad is a grizzle and mom is a blue and all of these are blues, the recessive color. Interesting.
The puppies are shiny and black. They don't sparkle, but they shine. Puppies are wonderful. One could watch them all day and all night, just like watching a human baby. Pure love.
I have lost my earbuds. Where the heck did I leave them? I've also lost my car keys. Is Alzheimers setting in? They both were lost yesterday. Rats!!! They will turn up.
I lost my CRV, but I know where it went. It was totaled and the insurance paid it off quite well. No, I didn't total it. I loaned it to someone who totaled it, about a month ago. Kathleen takes my Prius to work daily, so I have had no car for a month. Her car is due to come into Hilo in another week. Whew! I'll be glad of that when it happens.
Kathleen's best friend and most of her family are arriving tomorrow night and will stay for a week. Kathleen is very excited, as am I. At almost the end of their visit here, Kathleen's middle kid, Bryce, and his mate and Jack's family will come for another week. At the end of their week, Kate, Kathleen's daughter, will come for her week. Busy time. I still don't know when we will be going to Lehua Island. Things get complicated. Just the way it is.
