Colorful Bandages and Bufos.

What I am enjoying about this moment most is that in spite of how my opponent spends full time trying to divide the American people, what I am seeing is people coming together under one roof who seemingly have nothing in common and know they have everything in common, and I think that is in the best interest in the strength of our nation.
--Kamala Harris

I had to lie in (more or less) the above position yesterday while a pleasant young woman doctor excised a small squamous cell skin cancer. (this seems to involve making a surprisingly large incision.) The colorful blue self sticking wrap over a more conventional white gauze and tape dressing can come off tomorrow to be replaced with a Band Aid.

We gave up on the attempt to renew Blake's medication when the vet's office closed without being able to get the prescription signing doctor's license number. Dana and Jim will be back on Monday and I have just enough to put him on half rations until then. So far he seems to be fine. Spike will miss him when he goes home, or rather he will miss the peanut butter he gets gratis when Blake gets his pills in peanut butter. We try to be an equal opportunity dog household here.

It's been quite cold at night but warms up to 70 or so with sunshine by mid-morning. We had what appeared to be a measurable amount of rain for the third or fourth night in a row last night. 

John has purchased a 40# bucket of ground squirrel deterrent poison but belatedly read that they go into hibernation when the days get shorter and colder. I don't wholeheartedly approve of using poison at all, but they are destroying a lot of plants so as long as he confines himself to putting it underground with the entrance/exit blocked I have capitulated. Maybe they will rethink their residence while they are hibernating and decamp to the hills in the spring.

I saw quite a large frog  on the road this morning. in Hawaii where they were on and around the roads by the thousands, we called them bufos. I once got one caught under a long skirt and it jumped around driving me crazy until I was able to liberate it. We have lots of tree frogs here but I rarely see, although I do hear, bigger ones. I'm quite fond of frogs.

The clocks go back tomorrow and it will be dark by 5:30pm. Not my favorite thing but it will be easier to get up in the morning...