We have a net deficiency of wetness. No rain now - except for five minutes of sprinkles twice - for over three weeks. I have to carry buckets of water to the rhubarb every day. My upstairs neighbor in the next house has advanced colon cancer and moved yesterday to St. Francis Home to get ready for the 'end' game. I will miss Mark, and he assigned his tiny garden to my care. It has four tomato plants, some green peppers, carrots and somethings that look like beets that overgrew and went to seed. So that takes another five or six buckets ever other day. I do water the tomatoes with a bit more because tomatoes consume giant amounts of water. The farmers are very concerned now about their corn crops. The corn is tasseling. That is very important. So, we don't need hail or hard rain, but we need a long steady rain or the corn will dry early. Our lawns are turning brown and the future for them is grim. Last year's five week drought turned lawns to powder. What happened to all that rain the weathermen promised on Monday? Someone got it. Not us.

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Bunjii. I took him to the 'doctor place.' He had the final final very last stitches removed! Yay!

The doc stuck him with a long needle and removed some urine from his bladder. After a while he came back and said it contained this and that and protein and absolutely no bacteria. So he doesn't have a bacterial urinary tract infection (UTI) but has a "stress-induced inflammation."

He got a shot of anti-inflammatory and a bottle of liquid Metacam that I start giving him today. I went out and bought all new litter boxes and six boxes of new litter. I put five boxes in various locations and filled them with fresh clean litter. Then I isolated Bunjii in the guest room again. Low stress.

He is better this morning. Not so many tiny pee episodes. The sparkle is coming back to his eyes.

Thanks for all the advice.

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