What was your happiest moment today?

Yesterday:

I took one of my recently-adopted cats to the vet for a re-check appointment, to see if his ear infection had cleared up. I administered eardrops to this sweetie for 30 days straight (not much fun for either of us, I can tell you)!

The vet said the cat's ear looked "amazing" and all the infection is gone. He also proclaimed "job well done" on my part (pats self on back just a little bit). I couldn't have done it without the cooperation of my feline patient, and I'm thrilled the drops worked. If they hadn't, we were potentially looking at a surgical consult with a specialist, due to his extremely stenotic ear canal (which predates his adoption). Fortunately the drops reduced the swelling of the ear canal dramatically, so that alone made the last 30 days of cat-wrangling worth it in my opinion.

The plan going forward is once-weekly administration of prophylactic ear cleaning stuff (Zymox). That beats the daily routine for sure! The vet uses the stuff on his own cat, so I'm hopeful it will keep any further infections at bay. Users on Amazon and in the Reddit cat forum all rave about this stuff, so I'm optimistic.

All fingers and paws crossed.....
 
I was going to do a long hike today. 60 degrees in December in northern Colorado. Wow!

I then saw that where I was going (county open space) closed on Dec 1 for the winter. Oh my. I'm glad I didn't make the 45 minute drive.

Instead, I got to take a walk with my DW this afternoon. What a blessing!
 
Went to our yearly retiree Christmas party today. There were 10 of us and we do a potluck and gift exchange. I transferred to the office that we all worked at in 05/80 and 5 of the ladies were already working there. Three of the ladies retired in 12/2004 and I retired in 06/06. We have been on several cruises together and some of us have been on bus trips together to Lancaster PA to see the plays. We used to meet monthly for lunch, but now are meeting quarterly. I know more about some of their families, than I do know about my own siblings. It is so nice having old friends.
 
Yesterday:

I took one of my recently-adopted cats to the vet for a re-check appointment, to see if his ear infection had cleared up. I administered eardrops to this sweetie for 30 days straight (not much fun for either of us, I can tell you)!

The vet said the cat's ear looked "amazing" and all the infection is gone. He also proclaimed "job well done" on my part (pats self on back just a little bit). I couldn't have done it without the cooperation of my feline patient, and I'm thrilled the drops worked. If they hadn't, we were potentially looking at a surgical consult with a specialist, due to his extremely stenotic ear canal (which predates his adoption). Fortunately the drops reduced the swelling of the ear canal dramatically, so that alone made the last 30 days of cat-wrangling worth it in my opinion.

The plan going forward is once-weekly administration of prophylactic ear cleaning stuff (Zymox). That beats the daily routine for sure! The vet uses the stuff on his own cat, so I'm hopeful it will keep any further infections at bay. Users on Amazon and in the Reddit cat forum all rave about this stuff, so I'm optimistic.

All fingers and paws crossed.
 
Woke up this morning and realized nothing was on the calendar or planned for DH or I.
Most days in retirement are pretty easy, but lately we have had something going on or comes up during the day, almost every day, that changes our plans.
What happened to the blank calendar of retirement?--lol.

But the interruptions lately have been happy one--time spent with DGS.
Yaaaay - I'm glad the interruptions have been pleasant, Pacergal! And - I totally understand the feeling of "unexpected busy-ness." I LOVE the joyous feeling of waking up and realizing we have nothing on the calendar for that day! 😁 👌
 
Getting a tech out for a second opinion on why my furnace was shutting down. 1st guy said "motor is shot, you need to replace motor, but really you need to replace whole furnace - blah, blah, blah." 2nd guy said "buy a cheaper, less dense filter." Bought the cheapest HD filter, and furnace is working fine. Savings: 8k? Will never call 1st guy company again, even though they are a prominent HVAC company in state.
 
Went Nordic skiing this afternoon. Was out for over an hour and saw nobody, though I did see a fox hunting rodents in the snow who was unconcerned about the audience.
 
Margarita 2 for 1 happy hour on Isla Mujeres. Have visited this island 2 or 3 times when in Cancun, decided to stay for 4 nights on the island.
 
I went up the second floor stairs of our new home for the first time.
I wonder what it costs to put in one of those elevators that go from the first to the second floor? My roommate is having a hard time negotiating the stairs.
 
I wonder what it costs to put in one of those elevators that go from the first to the second floor? My roommate is having a hard time negotiating the stairs.
Probably less expensive to install a chair lift on the staircase. I know little about them but have seen many ads on television.
 
I wonder what it costs to put in one of those elevators that go from the first to the second floor? My roommate is having a hard time negotiating the stairs.
If you have room for a stair lift, ( as mentioned above) not too bad.
If you have space for an elevator then it is all over the board for pricing.
These seem to be in the lower price range and do not have much impact.
Home Elevators and Residential Elevators from Stiltz Home Lifts

We have an open shaft for a platform lift.

If you have a porch or balcony you can get one of these for $5000 or so.
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Probably less expensive to install a chair lift on the staircase. I know little about them but have seen many ads on television.
My limited knowledge is for stairs that have 2 corners/curves of 90 degrees plus have the chair wrap around at the end, and about 20 steps in total it was $10K installed.

A straight run up the 20 steps which only works with straight stairs is around $3K.
 
Completed the fairly easy, straightforward, online renewal application for Passport! Been stressing me out thinking about getting that done.
 
Completed the fairly easy, straightforward, online renewal application for Passport! Been stressing me out thinking about getting that done.

Congratulations! I found it easy except for the picture! We don't have any white or off-white walls in our house! Eventually, we realized the backside of our access door to our HVAC handler unit is white. I had to stand very carefully to avoid the door handle being in the picture. Then, after uploading it, it would not accept that picture until I cropped it (using their system). Whew, finally accepted!

My picture didn't turn out great, but after all that I had to just let it go...let it go...let it go! (cue the Frozen song) It's not like I'm going to be showing that picture to tons of people, lol.

Should be getting it in a few days (~17 days after application).
 
Went Nordic skiing with the better-half during the warmest part of the afternoon. There's a section of downhill at the farthest point in the loop that's over a mile long. About halfway down I looked back and saw she was in a low tuck and catching up quick.
 
It just happened 10 minutes ago. I checked my library account online, and saw that one of the books I had on hold was now available.

It was available previously, just over 3 months ago (after a long wait) and I was about to pick it up on the last available date (before it went to the next person) when I decided to stop by the Animal Shelter to look at two cats.

Needless to say, as described in other threads, I adopted the two cats that day, and the book went to the next person in line. I'm not sorry about the choice I made that day. 😹

I am delighted that my turn has come again, and I will probably pick it up before Christmas. It's one of those books you can dive into and get lost in.

 
Figuring out with the help of folks here, how to adjust my H&R tax returns so that TurboTax can import them.
As I do other folks returns besides ours, I was going to buy separate software to do theirs, just to avoid typing in all the data.
But now I can use 1 type of software for taxes !
 
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