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Winter Woes
Feb. 20th, 2014 11:29 amFor anyone who's been following this journal recently, Reagan seems to have gotten her appetite back. She wasn't eating for a while, which is unusual for her. When the vet tested her blood, she said Rea was diabetic. Further tests indicate that this probably isn't the case, but for some reason her blood sugar spikes when she's at the vet's, I guess due to stress. I knew that could affect blood PRESSURE, but not blood sugar. We'll have to keep an eye on her, though. We hadn't noticed that she'd been drinking a lot of water, although she usually drinks when we're not looking anyway. The thing is, we still don't know what was actually wrong, because even if she were diabetic, I don't think it would explain why she'd sniff at food she normally likes and then turn away.
Hey, did you know there's a lot of snow in my area? It seems like, when it snows, that's all anyone can talk about. And now I'm talking about it, so I guess I don't have much business complaining. It's not ALL I'm talking about, though, so...I don't know. I feel that the people plowing the roads tend to do a half-assed job, but I'm not sure how they could do it better. So many roads around here have such a narrow strip of road plowed that cars can only go one way at a time on a two-way street. I suppose it's because plowing a larger section would have meant contended with parked cars, but I do wish someone had removed the snow from the curb. A few days ago, I ended up parking a long way away, because all the spaces on my block were either occupied or filled with snow. I got yelled at by some guy across the street who didn't want me parking in front of his house, because HE cleaned it out for HIS car. While I can appreciate that to a certain extent, he was legally in the wrong, as the curb space in front of his house doesn't belong to him. A lot of people put out their trash cans so no one else can park in front of their homes, but where do they get off doing that? It's not part of their property, and any town resident is allowed to park there. Besides, if you own the house, don't you have access to the driveway? As a renter, I don't, and I have to park somewhere. Fortunately, the snow is melting now, but who knows when the next snowstorm will arrive? Besides, when the plows pile it up on the sides of the road, it takes longer to melt. Parking lots will have huge mounds of snow that don't go away until, like, July. They have to put the snow somewhere, but aren't there better places for that? Snow has been around for longer than humanity has, yet we still haven't figured out how to deal with it. I'm all for hibernation, personally. And bears basically become diabetic when they hibernate, so this post has sort of come full circle.
Hey, did you know there's a lot of snow in my area? It seems like, when it snows, that's all anyone can talk about. And now I'm talking about it, so I guess I don't have much business complaining. It's not ALL I'm talking about, though, so...I don't know. I feel that the people plowing the roads tend to do a half-assed job, but I'm not sure how they could do it better. So many roads around here have such a narrow strip of road plowed that cars can only go one way at a time on a two-way street. I suppose it's because plowing a larger section would have meant contended with parked cars, but I do wish someone had removed the snow from the curb. A few days ago, I ended up parking a long way away, because all the spaces on my block were either occupied or filled with snow. I got yelled at by some guy across the street who didn't want me parking in front of his house, because HE cleaned it out for HIS car. While I can appreciate that to a certain extent, he was legally in the wrong, as the curb space in front of his house doesn't belong to him. A lot of people put out their trash cans so no one else can park in front of their homes, but where do they get off doing that? It's not part of their property, and any town resident is allowed to park there. Besides, if you own the house, don't you have access to the driveway? As a renter, I don't, and I have to park somewhere. Fortunately, the snow is melting now, but who knows when the next snowstorm will arrive? Besides, when the plows pile it up on the sides of the road, it takes longer to melt. Parking lots will have huge mounds of snow that don't go away until, like, July. They have to put the snow somewhere, but aren't there better places for that? Snow has been around for longer than humanity has, yet we still haven't figured out how to deal with it. I'm all for hibernation, personally. And bears basically become diabetic when they hibernate, so this post has sort of come full circle.
