Poor Rosie and Remy!

With my disfiguring and nauseating spider bites yesterday, I didn't walk the red kids.  (It looked like a had a navel orange under the skin of my neck, plus half an orange on my right cheek...)  I heard late last night from the kids' real family that Remy started bleeding from his rectum  yesterday - his anal glands were infected, and then he had an allergic reaction to the prescribed antibiotics.  As they were taking Remy back to the vet, Rosie appeared on three legs.  She wouldn't/couldn't place any weigh on her left front foot.  No bones are broken, according to the X-rays, but she apparently got her foot slammed in the doggie door on her way through it.  So I won't be walking the red kids until Tuesday.  I really feel for them!  It's not fun having a sore butt and a sore foot.

Gee, there was a 6.8 earthquake in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska this morning - I think Mother Earth is still having considerable indigestion. And our local news just interrupted programming to say that a 6.4 earthquake has just rocked northern Argentina.  ....  Hurricane Irene apparently got a  6-to-8 foot dolphin confused, as it has been seen for the past 3 days swimming around in Diascund Creek, a fresh water tributary of the Chickahominy River in Virginia.  ....  During the live coverage of Irene, a Fox-TV reporter from Washington, DC, was reporting from Ocean City, Maryland.  He was being covered with wind-driven spume - foam from the frothy, wind-beaten sea water -  and he reported that it tasted like the sea.  A commentator in the studio stated that it was made up of "organic material."  A New York Fox station picked this up, and reported that the Ocean City sea foam was contaminated with sewage.  The Fox affiliates passed this story back and forth, all along the eastern seaboard.  There was no sewage in the sea water or the ocean foam there at the beach at Ocean City.  Fox News needs to apologize!  ....  The following is a photo of the worst of the storm damage that occurred on Chincoteague during Hurricane Irene's visit:

I was surprised to see a banner-type entertainment story today that yelled that an NCIS star was under arrest for felony battery.  I simply couldn't see any of the main actors or actresses on my favorite show battering someone.  So, of course, I clicked on the story and was (again) surprised to find that David Dayan Fisher, who has had a recurring role of ex-CIA/CIA agent Trent Kort, was a "star" of  NCIS.  Kort is a character that I clinch my teeth over, but I wouldn't designate him as a star of the series....

The kits have been delighted to have me at home for the past couple of days.  Lovey isn't quite as clingy, and Nedi isn't as jumpy as he has been.  Mocha laid beside me throughout the football game last night - and got lots of love and brushing and treats.  The Broncos played last night, and all the first-string players got the night off.  We were playing the Arizona Cardinals, and they started their first-string group.  Brady Quinn, who seemed to be Head Coach John Fox's choice as the number-two quarterback, played the first half.  Brady played extremely well in both the first and second pre-season games, but sat on the bench last week.  Brady threw one interception, lost a fumble, was unable to make any first downs, and completed 4 of 12 passes for 26 yards.  At halftime, the Cardinals were ahead 20 to 0, and the Broncos had a positive 48 yards of offense.  Tebow was brought in for the second half.  He made a couple of sloppy plays, but was able to move the Broncos down the field and to throw for a TD.  Tebow completed 7 of 11 throws for 116 yards - and got us on the scoreboard.  With less than 2 minutes left in the game, Adam Weber, the fourth-string QB was brought in.  He moved the ball, in three plays, from the 6 yard line to 6 inches away from the goal.  He threw one 89 yard pass, and scrambled 16 yards for the goal line with 2 seconds on the clock.  He was stopped 6 inches away from the goal. - His three plays were the best of the Broncos' offense in the entire game!  The final score was 26 to 7, in favor of the Cardinals.