Sad news about your little friend Ptolemy. In the end the thousands for all of the testing, had you paid it, wouldn't have changed the outcome. Better for him not to go through that torture also. Will the vet let you wait in the car until it's your turn to go in? Or use a side door? I've made that request the last couple of times we made that final visit, and it's a lot easier on everyone, in particular the pet.

Today is a federal holiday in the US, Juneteenth is the newest, celebrating the 1865 announcement in Galveston that the slaves were free (and had legally been for quite a while. The Texans just never told them.) The woman who spearheaded it is here in Fort Worth, and this has been her goal for decades. They're doing a celebratory 2.5 mile walk this morning, and it's hot out there.

Almost finished with the cucumber bed this morning, and I must push the mower through the tallish jungle in the back yard. It may be a holiday but that doesn't mean there is less work to do.

I've taken time to place several pet-related orders today. Cancel the dog food subscription, I have way too much of the one that last arrived and will be changing flavors (Pepper says it doesn't taste good and I have mixed it with an Aldi flavor to get her to eat what I have. I might as well just buy the Aldi food.) And time to get a replacement silicone flap for the dog door. The one there now has too many gaps for air and mosquitoes after several years of constant use by all of these guys.