Animals, Non-Resident
British butterflies, including one of the rare gender-confused individuals. It can fly but its wings don't match because it has male-type wings on one side and female-type wings on the other.
Animals, Resident
Serena was feeling sassier, though sniffly, and wanted to spend the afternoon out in the sun. Since I was puttering around the yard, I let her. She seemed to enjoy her adventures in convalescence, inspecting her territory, but didn't try to get me to run any distance with her. Yet. I'm beginning to have faith that she'll be doing that again this summer. She's reached the level of energy where she enjoys spending time indoors doing things that make me say "No," just so I'll get up and shoo her off the place she shouldn't be climbing on, or at least something will fall over, just to relieve the boredom of being in a place where she doesn't belong.
Just a data point...The tomcat I call Trumpkin has been close to Silver, who's not running around with him this week and may be dead or dying. He's been close to Serena, who's been very ill. If what they had even included panleukopenia as a secondary infection, at best he's a super-immune carrier. He looks healthy, mischievous, annoying, and stinky as a tomcat can be.
Health News
Can yogurt and "a special form of Vitamin B-9" help people with autism? (The real thing, I mean, not a mislabel slapped on any quiet child by schools that get extra funding for enrolling students with major learning disabilities. I'm convinced that many young people currently classified as "autistic" are just fine--even admirable--the way they are and need respect more than "help." E.g. the lad who never became my stepson.) Studies suggest, not yet prove, that these factors in the diet may help relatively high-functioning autistic patients relate to the rest of the world. This page contains summaries of several autism-related news items; yogurt is at the top, Vitamin B-9 further down.
Music
This came in the e-mail. Stringed instruments. I liked it.
Stupidity
"No proven hazards with pesticides," parrot-squawk mindless, testosterone-poisoned drones like "Doctor" Mike. Oh nooo. Warning: you won't have to watch all six minutes of the video to want to dip him in a vat of the chemicals used.
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