Category: Melba
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Melba is Very Helpful
At the moment, she is helping me pack for the ALA Midwinter conference. I can’t forget my jumper, and if there’s a little dog on top, I will most definitely remember it!
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A Sweater for Melba
The weather here has been ridiculous lately: a brisk 50-odd degrees first thing in the morning that warms to a high of 80 in the afternoons. And not just for a few minutes at four p.m., either. So although I’m broiling in my wool skirts and long sleeves at lunchtime, poor Melba has been shivering…
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Best Seat in the House
This is Melba’s new favorite spot. How or why she decided to climb up there, I have no idea, but she was very sad when I took her down.
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Mixing Themes
I love Halloween. Dressing up, scary stories, and candy. It’s a great holiday. This year, I was determined to celebrate it with my very own party. At the very least, I needed an excuse to follow the advice of just about everyone who has met Melba and dress her up in an eyepatch. The picture…
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Center of Attention
Melba is doing better, although she now needs to wear a cone so she doesn’t lick her sutures. Before, she was very popular with everyone who got onto the building’s elevator with us, but now she is the center of attention everywhere.
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Melba’s Bad Day
Today, Melba had to go in to have Suspicious Masses removed from her tummy, and while she was there, the vet discovered a bad tooth that needed removing. My poor baby.
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Assembly Required
Hallelujah, Melba and I survived the move. Today we are assembling the apartment, and we’ve worked out a system: I get out tools to assemble furniture, and Melba lays down to sleep atop them. After only half a bookshelf, Melba has her job down pat.
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Exhausting
Last weekend, Querido and I packed up Melba for a weekend in the Wild North. She enjoyed herself thoroughly, and wore herself out thoroughly too. I had hoped to take her out into nature, because I don’t know that she’d ever left Phoenix before, but she never made it beyond the backyard. It was adventure…
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