Hi Roxie:

They first suspected I had IC around 1996. Prednisone seems to help it and since I am on it all of the time, it keeps the pain down quite a bit. It is kind of like everything else with my health. You have it, you don't, you might, we don't know... It did respond to the IC meds though... Maybe the reason they are unsure, is because it does seem to respond to steroids. I have hematuria most of the time...

Your yard is really pretty. I cannot imagine all of those squirrels eating so close to one another without going after each other. We have constant spats here over who is going to eat out of which feeder. Our yard is very small and I think we have had maybe 6-8 at one time. We also have Mallards that come in every year for a few months, for some unknown reason. It is not like we have a pond or anything. The squirrels are bankrupting us eating black sunflower seed-won't eat corn. The Mallards eat cracked corn... Everyone else eats birdseed...

What are you putting out for them to eat?

Right now, I am trying to attract a Screech Owl to move into my owl box. So far, zip... I stay terrified a Great-horned Owl will come here and camp out, because of my tiny dogs... Every now and then we will hear one...

I would love to have a big pretty yard, especially where I could see it from the house...

Cathie