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[pameladean]

Well, the Multispecialty Clinic has lots of Toprol left, though it's in smaller increments so I'll have to take two of them. I can pick the stuff up on Monday. They are out of Cardura, however. I'm going to have to get set up with a Canadian web pharmacy, I believe. (Thank you, Paul Wellstone!) And redouble my efforts to get off some of this stuff. Halving the dose halves the price, after all.

Finished Liavek Vol. IV, realized that my only copy of Vol. V is at Eric's, started reading "The Illusionist." Man, that's a good story.

I went downstairs late last night to do some laundry. David's bedroom door was partly open, meaning he was receiving cats, and I could hear him talking kindly to Naomi and Arwen. Then he sneezed, and the next thing I saw was Naomi scrambling out the door so fast she skidded on the concrete floor of the basement, with Arwen right behind her, her tail puffed up so that it was bigger than Naomi's. (Arwen is the shorthair, Naomi the longhair.) I am afraid I burst out laughing. David, when I poked my head around the door, looked merely resigned. It was not really a very large sneeze. When I sneezed this morning he inquired sleepily, "Did Arwen and Naomi run away when you sneezed?" But they hadn't been there to begin with, having rushed upstairs in great excitement when I got up to use the bathroom. Nothing much ever happens on these occasions (aside from occasional sneezing), but they remain hopeful.

It snowed in the night, and is supposed to do so again, all in piddling amounts that will nevertheless need shovelling at some point. Right now it's hazily sunny and a lot of birds are having a discussion.

I actually saw a female cardinal on the weighted feeder yesterday. It's weighted to close if anything heavier than a cardinal lands on it, but mostly it's used by house sparrows and house finches. She looked very nice against the green metal, sitting sideways and revolving sunflower seed after sunflower seed through her bill. The house sparrows stuck to the other side, fluttering in and out and fussing as usual. Once or twice a chickadee darted in, seized a seed, and flew far away to eat it.

Pamela

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[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I msiread your first sentence as "the Multispeciality Clinic has lots of Topol left". Was just listening to "If I were a Rich Man" the other night, while building bookshelves, and the images of lots of Topols spreading out across the Twin Cities singing at the tops of their voices was actually rather nice. Would that count as an exercise in Applied Topology ?

[pameladean]

*giggle*

I also like the image of lots of Topol shut up in "the cupboard," as they call the place where they keep the free samples of drugs. Must making opening the door pretty exciting.

Pamela

[redbird]

Everyone seems to be seeing cardinals lately. I need to get into the woods, but the paths are all icy (which is more than annoying when the slope is 20 or 30 degrees and the pavement is iffy at best).

[pameladean]

I can see them all year round; the problem is in remembering to look. They don't really like the Kitty TV feeder, probably because they know perfectly well there's a cat four feet away staring at them; and that's the one I don't have to go out of my way to check.

And yes, icy paths. There's almost always that period when it's plenty warm to walk, if you want to fall flat on your back.

Pamela

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Must move sunflowers from garage to bird feeder. Must fix garage door opener too. Love cardinals, but they almost never alight at my seedless feeder. I'm investigating to see if I can determine why.

[pameladean]

Seedless feeder? That might explain it, you know.

Cardinals are shy, don't like crowding, and often feed at sunrise and sunset when other birds aren't around. They also like feeding from the ground, though they don't do that exclusively.

Black-oil sunflower seed, niger thistle, and safflower all fetch mine reliably.

Pamela