I know that "with the pills they're feeling better" dance. Dosing cats isn't easy, though I've been doing it for years now with the friend's cats during her travels. There's a move with the thumb over the hump of the tongue - immediately followed by a treat they can't resist right after so you're forgiven. Dogs are easier, and I've had a few of the end-stage dogs on pills here. (It still hurts just as much to lose them.)

This morning part of the back yard has been mowed, but the lawn is quite dewy so when I went over the large fire ant mound I may have plastered a bunch of the fine soil of their mound under the wet mower. It was harder to mow without lugging it, so I stopped for now. After the grass dries I'll finish. I should have tipped the mower to see the state of the underside, but better to let any ants scurry off or die before I do that. They pack a wallop of a bite.

I have to round up a bunch of stuff and take it over to Goodwill this weekend. Right now it seems most of the horizontal surfaces in the den are stacked with things that have to leave - whether through the buy nothing page or donation.