1. Back in May, Gibbs had an incident of choke coughing and honking. We took him to the emergency vet in Post Falls and X-rays revealed that whatever had caused the honking/coughing was no longer present and that Gibbs' persistent coughing was probably from irritation.
Tonight, as I settled into bed, Gibbs started coughing, not honking, but coughing as if he was again choking on something.
I got up. I put Gibbs on my lap and in about a half an hour or so, his periodic coughing subsided.
Gibbs relaxed.
He scooted off my lap and lay next to me, put his chin on my thigh, and fell asleep.
He slept for about fifteen minutes without any coughing.
He woke up, leapt off the chair we occupied, found the place he wanted to sleep on his own, and I went to bed.
Whew!
Gibbs had no problems during the night and is back to his alert, vigilant, barky self this morning.
2. It's always a superb day for me when Rebecca at Beach Bum Bakery bakes a batch of cinnamon raisin bagels. I texted Rebecca with an order, screamed to the bakery, and galloped the Camry back home with a half a dozen of them. Later in the day, I texted Rebecca and told her if she had any left over at closing time, that I would return to the bakery on Friday morning and buy whatever she had left. Turns out she had five, so I'll have a nice supply of these wondrous bagels in the freezer. I hope I can make them last a while, but my voracious love of these bagels might just move me to eat them in a short period of time!
I also purchased an irresistible molasses ginger cookie and in the middle of the afternoon I enjoyed it with a homemade latte. Good Lord this was a delicious and uplifting snack.
3. I tried something a little different in the kitchen this evening. I took out a couple or three frozen chicken tenders and opened a packed of Thai noodles (pre-cooked, but packed into a square that needs to be heated so the noodles will come apart). I poured chicken stock into the wok and dropped the chicken pieces and the noodle square into the broth, brought it to a boil, and let the hot brother thaw the chicken and loosen up the noodles.
This technique accomplished what I wanted. I took the noodles out of the wok and put them in a bowl. I cut up the thawed, but not cooked through chicken pieces. I emptied the wok of the little bit of chicken broth that remained in it.
Then I stir fried onion, cabbage, yellow pepper, yellow summer squash, celery, and mushrooms along with the chicken pieces. I added spinach leaves and returned the noodles to the wok. Before long I had just what I wanted: a tasty stir fry!
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