Wow it has been a very very busy past few weeks. We have been busy doing things around the house and yard. Laid pavers beside the driveway, painted the new facia board and some trim work, trimmed bushes, put rock in the cactus garden, and I don't remember what else but we were just hopping all the time. Then Uncle Ralph and Danny got here last Sunday evening from Iowa. We really had a nice visit with them, they left to go back this morning. We took them to the Desert Museum, Titan Missle Museum, San Xavier Mission, and Mt. Lemmon. We were going to go to Old Tucson Studios however, Uncle Ralph was too tired to go (he is 82). But they both enjoyed the sightseeing as they had neither been to Arizona before.

Mom's cat Callie has not been acting herself and had hardly been eating or drinking, and she kept shaking her head and acted like she might have an ear infection or something so we took her to the vet today to be checked out. Well the vet sent her to an emergency vet hospital for more evaluation and treatment. We got over to the hospital, and found out Callie was severely anemic, had hardly any white blood cells and had a huge abdominal mass. We could have spent literaly thousands of dollars for the vet to verify what he already knew, Callie was full of cancer. So mom opted to have Callie put down. She didn't want Callie to be in pain and suffer. And even though they could have confirmed the diagnosis, the outcome would have been the same. We were just not prepared for the news. It is quite a shock to take Callie in to get an antibiotic or some ear drops and then to have to put her down.Needless to say Mom is just devastated. She has Callie for 6-7 years. So tomorrow, I am going to start looking for another Calico cat for mom. A new cat will not replace Callie with her personality and such but it will help mom get over her loss.

It is hard to believe that Monday will be the first of March already. This year has only started and two months gone already. Why does it seem like the time flies by faster the older we get, Sunday night we have tickets to go see Tracy Lawrence in Concert. Boy am I looking forward to that since I am his biggest fan. Then we need to start planning on our Iowa vists before Ryan leasves this summer for Afghanistan and Marc's wedding in September. Also would love to go to Utah and see Sarah this spring and still try to work in our Hawaii trip.

With that I am going to go to bed, it has been a most traumatic, stressful day and I am exhausted. Have lots of errands to run tomorrow so hope everyone has a great week.