Cat Health Update

After her encounter with the dog, Bellini was fairly sedentary for several days. As she began to move around more, we noticed her back feet were the cause of her discomfort. She didn't let us get too close, but we could see that her middle toes seemed stuck together. However her mood improved as did her mobility, so we watched to see if she would heal on her own.

She definitely seemed better and even started venturing outside again, but her feet were still causing her some trouble. So it was off to the vet today. The vet concluded that Bellini had shredded her back toenails on the tree, exposing the nail sheath, which was now infected. Bellini received a soothing antiseptic foot wash and started a three-day course of injected antibiotics. We'll be back at the vet the next two days for the remaining injections. Ah, the joys of pet ownership!

Sunday Outing

Yesterday, we finally visited the Karen Blixen house, made famous by the book and movie "Out of Africa." A lot of the items in the house are replicas, because Karen sold most of her belongings when she left Kenya to return to Europe. The grounds are very nice, and they have a cute garden restaurant down the street from the house.

After getting our fill of history for the day, we headed to Blankets and Wine, an outdoor concert/hang-out event held monthly. We ran into several other Embassy and expats friends there.

Kenya's version of annoying city birds are called kites. They will hang around anywhere there is food to see if they can get lucky. And if they get tired of waiting, they will snatch the food from you, literally. At one point, the area around us became target practice as kites dive-bombed people's picnic blankets and grabbed food right off people's plates or even out of their hands! Luckily we were sitting under a tent, so we were safe from the bird attack, but I saw some people get hit multiple times by the pesky kites!

Soon after that, ominous clouds gathered overhead, and as the rain started coming down, we decided to leave. That turned out to be a very wise decision, because about 15 minutes down the road, it started absolutely pouring, and we wondered how our friends were faring under the tent!