Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Madison Driveway, Tucson, AZ - Dec 30-Jan ??
Now we are parked in Gayle's driveway. Gayle's progress has been amazing -- he is a model student, doing all the exercises that the home therapist assigns. We saw in the New Year watching a short (~5 min) but exciting fireworks display put on by Westward Look Resort. The fireworks are launched at the stables right across the street from Gayle's house, so we just pulled up a couple of lawn chairs, sat back, and enjoyed.
While here we received some very sad news -- our rental agent in Longmont wrote to tell us that Trish Lehman, the grad student who was renting our condo, died while cross-country skiing alone on Christmas Day. We did a search and found articles written in the local papers. They described a pleasant, out-going teacher admired by friends & coworkers. We both had been looking forward to meeting her when we visit the Boulder area the summer. Now we both have a great sense of loss for a person we never knew, but are almost certain we would have liked.
The cats are still doing well. Rainbow always seems cold (she sits in front of the heater when it's not on and meows meaningfully while making fierce eye contact!), so we bought her a little pet sweater. She didn't take to it -- after sulking around with her tail down, she managed to Houdini her way out of it three different times. Next we're going to try a electric heated cat bed that turns on when it feels a cat on it. If it works, we'll probably have to get another, since Amber will almost certainly take it over. We already have two non-electric thermal-pad blankets, which the cats like. However, they don't seem to be warm enough for those cold mornings.# posted by Doug and Willie @ 1:41 PM 
