Thursday, December 31, 2015

Oatmeal's Not Feeling Well

We've been noticing my cat has been peeing on our bed lately! Since that's not a good thing, and since I've noticed her doing that before, in other places, I took her to the vet this morning to see if she had an infection. They had wanted us to bring in a urine sample but Oatmeal was very uncooperative with this, so we went in empty-handed.

She got blood drawn, weighed, inspected head to toe, temperature taken (hiss), ears looked into, and x-rayed. Her results came back: she has an accessed tooth, high glucose, and bladder stones which causes repeat bladder infections.

Next week she goes in to get her tooth extracted and mouth/teeth deep cleaned and hopefully will be good as new!





Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Park Ranger Blog

I started a new blog, called Park Ranger, Naturalist, Interpreter (interp-ranger.BlogSpot.com). I'm hoping to show what my job is like on a daily basis...not sure if I will really be able to post every single day, but I'm going to try my best! I've got one post up already, but the daily posts will not start until Jan. 1--with our first day hikes! I'm doing a hike at Dayton State Park at a historic mill site, and one at Washoe Lake through the sand dunes. Last year I had about 20 people plus a reporter from the Reno Gazette-Journal, so I'm hoping for a good turn-out this year too!

Ore-crushing mill site in Dayton, near the first place gold was discovered in Nevada.

 
Washoe Lake State Park sand dunes.

Monday, December 14, 2015

Over a year....

I haven't touched my blog in over a year! I'm thinking of starting a park ranger blog, even though I know there are tons out there...but I think it might be fun.

I've been married almost a year now! Dec. 19 is coming up fast :)

I've also been a full time park ranger (interpreter) for over 11 years now! 7 years with Utah State Parks, 4 + with Nevada State Parks! I was a seasonal for 6 summers before that...another season is starting soon and I'm thinking of everything I have to do to get ready for that.

I want to spend more time with my blog. I miss seeing what everyone is up to!
A snowy picture from Washoe Lake State Park