Happy 2007
Jan. 2nd, 2007 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
essayelI'm a bit late with this, as so many people are but sincerely wish everyone a very happy new year for 2007 and hope that it brings them everything that they might wish for.
Some on my flist already know why I wasn't in a posting mood this weekend so I'm .
My sister in law died last week - not entirely unexpectedly - and so, while deeply saddened, we weren't as shocked as we could have been. The poor dear hung on for Christmas and got to see all the people she cared about on Christmas Day itself and the days after. There will be a big family get together at the funeral on Friday this week and we all intend to try to remember happier times with her before she became so ill.
But last Friday morning my daughter came dashing downstairs with one of our cats screaming in her arms - the poor beast convulsing and fighting for breath. We rang the vets and they agreed they could 'fit us in' in an hour or two but sadly not fast enough for our poor cat who died on my lap in the waiting room. The vet shrugged and said it could be anything so we had a funeral down at the sunny spot by the mulberry tree and had a bit of a sniffle and made a fuss of the other cat and the dog. THEN Saturday morning Paul came back from walking the dog and found our other cat stone dead on the path outside the house.
So it looks like someone has been creative with poison - strychnine by the symptoms.
As you can imagine I was rather too angry to write anything nice at all over the weekend. Now we just have to find out where the poison came from and make sure that nobody else's cat/dog/small child can get at it.
So 2006 didn't end at all well BUT I have high hopes for 2007. Fingers crossed, eh?
Some on my flist already know why I wasn't in a posting mood this weekend so I'm .
My sister in law died last week - not entirely unexpectedly - and so, while deeply saddened, we weren't as shocked as we could have been. The poor dear hung on for Christmas and got to see all the people she cared about on Christmas Day itself and the days after. There will be a big family get together at the funeral on Friday this week and we all intend to try to remember happier times with her before she became so ill.
But last Friday morning my daughter came dashing downstairs with one of our cats screaming in her arms - the poor beast convulsing and fighting for breath. We rang the vets and they agreed they could 'fit us in' in an hour or two but sadly not fast enough for our poor cat who died on my lap in the waiting room. The vet shrugged and said it could be anything so we had a funeral down at the sunny spot by the mulberry tree and had a bit of a sniffle and made a fuss of the other cat and the dog. THEN Saturday morning Paul came back from walking the dog and found our other cat stone dead on the path outside the house.
So it looks like someone has been creative with poison - strychnine by the symptoms.
As you can imagine I was rather too angry to write anything nice at all over the weekend. Now we just have to find out where the poison came from and make sure that nobody else's cat/dog/small child can get at it.
So 2006 didn't end at all well BUT I have high hopes for 2007. Fingers crossed, eh?
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