Tuesday
From time to time Truffles goes off her food. She started showing signs of this on Saturday. Yesterday she ate a little chicken – something she usually wolfs down and then didn’t want to eat for the rest of the day. Today I determined to take her to the vet if she wasn’t eating. She didn’t have breakfast this morning, although I managed to get one tiny piece of chicken down her.
Before taking her to the vet, I had one other idea. I’d get some ‘kitten mousse’ and crush half a pill into it for her. I have half a cat appetite stimulant pill left. That will get into her system and she’ll start eating again. Mike and I walked to Echo and on the way back, we stopped at the vet and picked up some soft irresistible food. They were out of kitten mousse. We bought it home and I crushed the remaining half tablet in a teaspoon of it. Truffles immediately ate half of it and hopefully ate the other half later. I didn’t actually see her eat the other half, so I’m hoping it didn’t go down the throat of a visiting kitty!
It didn’t take long before Truffles was meowing for food. She has eaten a whole plate this evening and had water to wash it down. But she is still looking a little poorly. She’s not moving a lot and not cleaning herself (although she did earlier), but just lying very still on my bed…
Hopefully tomorrow she will perk up again. Otherwise we may just have to have her checked out.
Nugget from journey – so prayers for children build faith because they get answered. The Lord made David a musician, so off he went to UCT College of Music to study Western Classical Performance in Guitar. Classical guitars come at about R50 000 for a handmade new one. David started playing guitar using Mike’s 40+ year old Yamaha guitar. He took that guitar with him to UCT, but he really needed a new one. It became a matter of prayer when we debated how much to spend, how to get it, where to get it, what to do. I have spent some time this evening going through my 2010 diary looking for the details of this guitar, because I made a few notes at the time and put them at the back of a book – it was a diary or a Bible, but I can’t find them at the minute so I’ll have to go by memory. I remember at the time praying about it and laying before the Lord the criteria:
- It had to have a solid top.
- Couldn’t be more than R10 000.
- Couldn’t be too far from Cape Town.
- David had to love love love it.
Quality guitars were few and far between so to find one in our area that met those requirements – it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yet a day or two later, I saw on Gumtree a guitar for sale in Stellenbosch. We phoned and made an arrangement to meet up with the guy. David was able to go into the music school at Stellenbosch university to try it out. It had a solid top. It was priced right. It was in the right spot, but would David love love love it?
He started playing it and initially wan’t all that enamored but as he continued, he began to really hear it sing. It needed some work, so we asked if we could take it with us and if we decided to buy it, pay the guy, but if not, we would bring it back. The seller was not so sure if he trusted us. At that moment along came Pieka! He was a friend of Stacey’s who lived in our area and was studying at Stellenbosch. He stopped to chat and could vouch for our honesty – what a help that was! The guitar owner allowed us to take it. We got home and showed it to Mike. We found out what needed to be done. We negotiated with the seller, got a better price and David love love loved it! It saw him all the way through the rest of his degree and into Masters. He still plays it today, but has a number of other guitars that he has been blessed with, including this Alvarez he uses for fingerstyle and which carries its own story…
What a blessing.
Deuteronomy 20:4
The Lord your God is He who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.
These are the days.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you.
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂
Gym:
We walked…
Braces:
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