I’ve had a really bad migraine the last few days. I don’t know what caused it, but it’s stopping me from getting much of anything done! It’s better today than it was yesterday!

Yesterday I spent the day lying on the couch dreading each time the dog would go to the door asking to go outside. Of course, every time I did go out with the dog she wanted to stand in the bright sunlight and if you’ve ever had a migraine or a very bad headache you know that bright light just makes your head pound even more.

I think the headache started sometime on Monday hence the lack of new posts! I just hate being knocked out of commission by my own body! Hopefully the migraine is going to finally go away, it seems like it is, but you can never tell for sure until it’s suddenly gone.

Wordless Wednesday

I’d bet that having mice crawling all over your head would be a little creepy … even more so if you are a cat who wants to eat the mice!

This cat must have a lot of patience and tolerance!

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In the dark cold winter, as the wind is howling down our driveway and snow if falling outside I often wish that winter would be over and long for the warm days of summer. During those times, when I think of summer, I picture things that remind me of summer - like the beach, walking outside during a warm rain, the smell of fresh cut grass, sitting outside relaxing in the garden and of course the flowers .. the flowers of summer.

Who doesn’t think of summer when they see a sunflower?

Black Eyed Susans (daisies) often remind me of warm sunny days too.

These flowers are blooming right now in my garden. So bright and cheery.

One of the best things about these two flowers is that once they start blooming they often bloom into October, long after most of my other flowers have stopped blooming.

Can you think of a flower, a scent or place that always reminds you of warm summer days?

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This weeks theme is Clouds

I took this photo at about 7:30 this evening. The clouds were low, dark and ominous.

We had some rain earlier in the day and the weather channel had said we were supposed to get thunder storms but so far there’s been no storm. Just the dark dark clouds.

We’ve had a very wet summer here in Toronto. I’m not sure how much rain we had, but it was something like 292 mm or more and that total broke all past records by a long shot! It seems like August might be damp as well.

Over the last few days our Labrador Retriever, Midnight, has had more gas than usual. Stinky gas that produces stinky farts. Ughh!

I have no idea why she’s more gassy than usual. We haven’t changed her diet - well other than to eliminate Nutro Natural Choice a couple of weeks ago (rumors that it’s making a lot of dogs sick!), but she’s on her other regular food so that shouldn’t have made a big difference.

Midnight says “What do you mean? My farts don’t smell!”

She did go into heat on Thursday. Yeah, we haven’t had her spayed yet. We were going to at the end of August when Chris is on vacation but I guess we’ll have to wait until mid to late September now. I wonder if the change in her hormones might have made her more gassy?

She must have been full of gas the other evening. Chris came home from work, fed her, her dinner and then took her for a walk and when he came back he said that she was farting as she walked. Not only was she farting but she was wiggling her bum around as she walked, I presume to help get the farts out. LOL I wished I’d seen that. It sounds like it was a funny sight and her farts were fairly loud so much so that Chris was looking around to see if anyone was nearby to hear them! I guess he was afraid that someone would have thought it was him.

A little while ago she was lying near me on the floor and she was passing gas in her sleep. You know - those silent but deadly ones? I had to wake her up so that she’d move away from me!

I guess I’m glad we don’t have a bull dog (they fart all the time!). At least Midnight only has gas every once in a while, maybe less than my husband does!

Now other than the farts, if they’d stop running those darn acne products commercials repeatedly all day I’d be happy. I think I can probably recite two or three of them word for word by now.