Poor Ms. Wally!

I trundled her off early yesterday morning to VCA in Kaneohe where she was due for what we thought was going to be routine teeth cleaning. But Dr. Sakamoto called me late in the morning with the news that she found much more damage than she had thought and ended up having to extract five teeth. Wally, who’s almost 11 years old, spent the night at VCA and I’ll be picking her up shortly. She’s coming home with pain meds, antibiotics, a week’s worth of canned cat food, and a mouth with less in it than before.

And now we’re feeling guilty for failing to catch the problems earlier.

Let’s see. I just added the Christian Science Monitor’s Global Credit Crisis Blog to my reading list, along with this story on AIG that appeared in the New York Times last Sunday, a Washington Post story on the political power of its CEO, and this analysis of the credit crunch by Kevin Hall of McClatchy Newspapers.

And did you catch NPR’s interview with the former chief financial officer for Washington Mutual, who claims that he tried to warn the S&L five years ago of the dangers of being too deep into the housing bubble.

But it’s Saturday. Time to think about other things for a few precious moments. This morning we had fun watching Fisher and Shiloh chasing a tennis ball out into the water. I’ll work on the little video of it all and try to post it later today. In the meantime, you can see how happy they are in this photo.