Sonya Schryer Norris

Daddy’s Home!

Scout wasn’t real big on Hubby at first. He mainly saw him when horrible, no good, very bad medicine was being squirted into his yap. It was not an endearing introduction. Then Hubby went away on a week’s camping trip in Wisconsin with his best friend of almost fifty years (they met in the OutingContinueContinue reading “Daddy’s Home!”

Scout is a climber

For his first few days with the run of the house, Scout had trouble getting up onto the couch. Try, scramble, fall back on his butt, try again. He’s just a little guy yet. But this morning he clawed his way to the uppermost spot in the room: the curtain railing. Neither Candy nor BethesdaContinueContinue reading “Scout is a climber”

Now that I’m done adulting for the day…

Each year at work, I’m required to conduct ten library visits. They’re actually fun, and I’ve never had a bad experience, but there’s also some natural social anxiety. An introvert walks into a new environment and makes conversation with a stranger for two hours … X 10. In any case, today I did two libraryContinueContinue reading “Now that I’m done adulting for the day…”

Scout defeats the humans again

We ordered a blue collar for Scout that has his name, my phone number, and “Reward” on it. It’s miles too big. Beth S recommended putting it around his whole body for now and that sounded like a brilliant suggestion. Here he is wriggling out of it. We’ll just have to wait until he’s bigger!

Of shower radios and debutantes

Y’know that joke about what they call the person who graduates last in their med school class? (A doctor.) This is the Hubby and Snakelady version. I’ve been irritable lately. Really, uncomfortably, irritable. I hide it well at work. Because I have to. But it seeps out at home and Hubby is the unfortunate suffererContinueContinue reading “Of shower radios and debutantes”

Scout takes his first trip to the living room

Scout the Explorer took a 10 minute morning sojourn into the vastness that is the rest of the house. When Candy seemed to mind, we put him back. Later in the afternoon, he came back out for further adventures:

Candy, Meet Scout

Candy meets ScoutToday, Scout got a clean bill of health from his intestinal parasites so we decided to introduce him to Candy. Candy has been having a hard time since Bethesda’s death. Urinating and defecating outside of her box for the first two weeks (that has stopped). Acting depressed. She approached Bethesda to play everyContinueContinue reading “Candy, Meet Scout”