My home is all mine right now. No sharing of the bed or couch. No being concerned with tripping over anything laying on the floor ... like a cat. My house is empty. All three girls are ... gone. The silence is deafening.
It's the time of the year when all three cats -- Precious, Nibblets & THE WOBBLER -- have their annual visit to Foster Animal Hospital. They get their physicals, which include all their booster shots, checked for worms & ear mites, have their flea & tick treatments applied, along with mammograms & pelvic exams. [Well, maybe not those last two.]
All three will also be having a few "vacation days", as they are being boarded through the weekend. It is convenient -- and planned -- that their annual check-ups coincide with my annual August trip to Florida for the National Reptile Breeders Expo.
Every year I attend this event, first held in Orlando, but now located in Daytona Beach. This will be -- I am pretty sure -- my 20th straight year to attend. [I somehow missed the first two years of the Expo.] With a record like that, you know I enjoy going each year.
This is also one of the times when I go visit my Mother in Wildwood, Florida. It's kind of a "two-fer" trip; seeing my Mom & then cavorting with hundreds of people selling thousands of snakes, turtles, lizards & all sorts of stuff having to do with reptile keeping & breeding.
I am looking forward to Daytona once again & another Reptile Breeders Expo.
I'll also look to coming back home -- with "purchases" ?? -- & again sharing my home with Precious, Nibblets & THE WOBBLER. I miss them already.
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