Cedar Lee August 3rd, 2009

I’ve had a crazy weekend and work in the studio was put on hold.

I took my 10-year-old beloved cat, Quani, to the vet on Friday because she was drooling brown and had funky breath–I figured she had a dental problem.

It turns out she has a huge growth on her tongue extending way into her throat, and either it’s a bacterial or viral infection, or it’s cancer.  We are force-feeding her antibiotics every 12 hours till her appointment next week (force-feeding medicine to a cat: not fun) in the hopes that it is just an infection and will clear up.  If it’s cancer, it can’t be surgically removed because it’s on her tongue, so there’s not much we can do.  I feel helpless.  It can be so hard when the animals you love are sick.

On top of that stress, the water heater in my basement has been having intermittent flooding issues for the past couple of months, and this weekend it finally decided to blow up completely.  It still heats water; it just also happens to pour a river into my basement whilst doing so.  Life had to stop momentarily while my husband and I shopped for a new water heater and arranged to have it installed.  Ouch!  At least we should be able to take hot showers again by tomorrow.

My good news for this week is that I visited Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington, D.C. to see the lotus flowers in full bloom.  I took a lot of beautiful pictures.

I decided my future Lotus paintings, in addition to frogs, dragonflies and other bugs, need to include turtles, bees, and possibly butterflies.

Can you see the camouflaged frog?

I hope to still meet my painting goals for this week by putting in extra studio time later in the week–so, stay tuned!

• Art Plans , Life , Pets
• Comments(1)