Day 173, Year 11: Introducing Mr. Wildlife
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Weather: Overcast and Rainy until Late Afternoon
Location: At Home in Evergreen Preserve, Lowell, MA
For years I have been the wildlife photographer in this family, but suddenly Mark has become Mr. Wildlife. Yesterday he went for a couple of walks and communed (and took photos) of the resident geese and today he found a friendly beaver. I never seem to see these things when I walk with him, but I am just going to have to walk more and look harder. Or maybe I’ll just turn my camera over to Mark. He held his own today, feeling no better, but no worse. Unfortunately, tomorrow will interrupt the pattern and who knows how he will feel. He can have nothing to eat after 2 am, so in reality he has probably had his last food until after the biopsy at 11 am tomorrow morning. We will eat lunch after the biopsy before heading to the Cape and then try to get food into him every couple of hours. His schedule is very challenging—no food from 8 am to 11 am every day and again no food from 8 pm until 11 pm. And just when we get into a routine, he has a day like tomorrow and we start over again. Fun, fun.
We met with my niece Lynn and her realtor late this morning. The realtor will return on Tuesday of next week to take photos and on Wednesday the condo will be officially on the market IF the roof work is done on this building. It doesn’t look like it needs a new roof, but all of the units are getting one. The work on our building was supposed to start on Monday the 4th, but it has been snowing, and then raining since then, so the work has been postponed. It is supposed to be sunny for the next few days, so maybe the work will finally get done. But with this place on the verge of being on the market, it is definitely time for us to get serious about a place to live on the Cape. We are going down tomorrow after the biopsy and will see the apartments Mark thinks sound promising on Thursday afternoon. Both units are in the same complex next to Falmouth Harbor. Mark likes the idea of being in the center of Falmouth and near the harbor. There are two apartments—one waterside and one facing the street—one is overbudget and the other is within the budget. Guess which is which! Sure hope we like the street-facing apartment as much as Mark thinks we will.
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