I am so touched by the people who have contributed to my ...

I am so touched by the people who have contributed to my "Race for the Rescues" 5K for animal charities here in LA. This is especially poignant for me because I lost my most beloved pet back in April, and because Damsel the Pekinese has recently begun to fade. She's down from 10 pounds to just over six now, and is on a cocktail of meds whose side-effect is that I have to clean her up in the sink every couple of days. She's perky, happy, and very much herself, and has a good quality of life, but... it's a nuisance. And I have to keep an eye on her. And she REALLY doesn't like that sink thing.

Thank you all.  And thank you, in advance, to those who haven't yet made up their minds to go to www.racefortherescues.org (and look up the "participants" button, and look for my name...), and put a couple bucks towards those who're at the back of the line for charity, all over the country... and whose only offense, in thousands of cases, was being born to mamas whose owners didn't get around to - or didn't believe in - having them spayed. (Or whose owners got them on a whim and then decided they couldn't cope with the whole feeding-and-walking thing).

Meanwhile, a lovely day of work on Asher & Ysidro #5 - with laundry, tea, and peaceful silence. The next couple of weekends are going to be pretty crowded, so I'm enjoying this one.