Yay, Rescue Remedy

When it works, it works. Bach Flower Essence Rescue Remedy--kinda like homeopathy, it shouldn't work. It never did a thing for Stella. It helps me get through anxiety attacks, but I'm willing to ascribe that to the placebo effect. But it works for Taenzer. Three doses, 5 minutes apart, and she's as calm as can be when I clip her claws. That's nothing short of a miracle. She got ice cream as a reward, but I've done this before without ice cream and got the same calmness. I wish I could remember to do it all the time.

The fuzzy nest--dunno. It did rain last night, and the next looked flat when I looked at it this morning. When I poked gently tonight there was no movement. Can bunnies move their kits? I didn't see any ants--you'd think if there was a dead baby the ants would be there harvesting.

This morning as I walked from the van to the building where I work, I heard a bird singing. I don't know what it was--a true song, so not a crow or house sparrow or starling. It wasn't the song of a cardinal or robin or purple finch or meadow lark--those are the only ones I can identify without help. I have no idea what it was, but it was so loud and clear and pure, I just stopped to listen. I could hear it echoing on the big central staircase when I went in.

If I leave the puppy pen to get something and then come back, the Ts are often watching me in what I call their "border collie look"--that kind of crouching, head between the shoulders, intense look. (Taenzer, particularly, gets it; when I took her to the dog park I used to get asked if she was a BC cross). I tried to take some pictures of that look tonight, and every single one of a dozen shots came out blurred. One of them had sunlight coming through the cracks of the neighbor's decaying privacy fence, and you could see the streaks of sunlight shake up and down; it looked like an EKG or something. I didn't feel like I was shaking, but obviously I was. I'll try again another time, and try to prop myself against something to keep my hands steady. I hope this is not going to become a regular thing.