Random 5 for October 25, 2026 – Seasons, neutering, ancestors, medications, time moves on

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Our trees do not look this. Maybe they will or maybe this will not be the year for it. Source: pondpikecabins

Yikes! – It’s all hallows eve this week. How did that happen. Where was July? Oh yes, I was hiding from the insane heat. I need to live on a tropical isle with a constant comfortable temperature and cell service. Oh yes, and a Starbucks. Maybe a tiki bar too.

You gotta love a sense of humor – One of the local rescues is having a “Testicle Festival.” Yes, I looked twice too. It’s a chance to neuter your pet for free or at a very low cost. Everyone here is either past that stage or is already altered so no reproducing.

What did I get from my ancestors? – Besides everything? Every few months I get an email from Ancestry.com about a new trait that I inherited. Most of the time it’s not a surprise. They told me I don’t like cilantro. I already knew that as it tastes like soap (that’s a genetic thing). I don’t like heights. Yep, that’s me who occasionally hovers on the top step of a ladder. You know the one. It says this is not a step. This week I learned that I don’t like scary movies. I don’t. I inherited that from both sides. My mom was a romcom lover. I think my dad liked cowboy stories. (He died when I was young so that’s the best I remember.)

Sasha: Then she put drops in my ear! Mean peep! Gus: Poor baby!

The very last one – Today I gave the last eardrops to my cat Sasha for her ear issue. No one (not even me) likes ear drops. She had to have them for 7 days, twice a day. She was mostly good until yesterday when she announced, “that’s it! No more human!” Today I snagged her for her last dose, and we all celebrated with a round of kibble. (Well, not me. I had my mocha!)

Helpful to have on hand!
Source: HGTV

Fall, the beauty and the melancholy – We are moving into peak leaf colors here. Originally, they said it would be a good year for color. I’m not seeing it. Maybe some of the trees are running late. It’s all beautiful. Then there will be the excitement of the holidays. Then we have three months of grey punctuated with awful driving conditions until we can get spring to come back from that tiki bar at the islands where she winters. Sigh.

So how was your week?

 

46 thoughts on “Random 5 for October 25, 2026 – Seasons, neutering, ancestors, medications, time moves on”

  1. The fall colors are limited here as well. For my birthday every year (the 17th), I always like to go a State Park or on vacation to see the colors. This year we just went to a park and I brought my camera along. Nothing! Mostly everything was still green. I was so disappointed. One week later we tried another Park, there was a little more, but mostly just dead leaves on the ground and still green on many trees. The weather has been extremely warm for October. Mid-70s for most of this month. Probably why. 😕Have a nice week.

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  2. That pic of “fall color”! Perfect.

    Those Ancestry traits? The gardener gets them–I don’t. Even though it’s me who set up the account, who handles the account, who does the genealogy, HE gets his traits. That’s because they have the account set to him for some stupid reason. And they won’t let me change it. I saw somebody mention AI and Ancestry and while that’s not why you’re hearing about your traits, I have felt very recently as if Ancestry is using AI because all of a sudden I have these amazing hints I never got before.

    My bank is also using AI because twice now I have gotten letters about checks I’ve sent to businesses saying my bank said there was no such account. Uh huh. As the account ON THE CHECK from the account I’VE HAD FOR OVER 25 YEARS. Right. (Sarcasm alert, of course). Just AI screwing up.

    Yay for the end of the ear drops!

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  3. Your Ancestry notations are interesting. Makes me wonder if they’re employing AI and Google to recall everything you’ve ever searched for on the ‘Net. And yes, I probably am a conspiracy theorist when it comes to the Internet and AI. Here’s hoping the last week of October is good for you all, at least the ear drops are done. Yay.

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  8. We took a drive along a river and up into the mountains this week. It was a nice drive, but, really, the best color is in the city where people plant all the best trees. Out in nature, there’s mostly one or two kinds of trees turning at a time.

    Does Ancestor.com really tell you specific things you inherited? All I hear from them is where my ancestors came from.

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    • Yes, I get emails periodically about inherited traits and they are always right. Nothing that will change my life but oddball things like asparagus makes my pee smell. Stuff that makes me giggle.

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  10. It hasn’t been a great year for color here either…..not enough cold nights, and maybe only one mild frost. But I can sacrifice a little leaf color for these balmy temps. The longer winter stays away the better. Glad Sasha is better.

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  11. That’s an attention getter to advertise pet neutering. I didn’t know Ancestry got to the nitty gritty of inherited taste preferences too! We are having showier leaves than the last two years when we were in moderate drought. Peak week for leaf peeping in Southeast Michigan is this week, so I’ll get out again before the wind or rain drops the leaves to the ground. Yay for Sasha finishing off the drops. I was just a kid but I remember our pet poodle had recurring ear infections and had daily drops and vet appointments, at one time, on a weekly basis for his ears.

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  15. Testicle Festival! A most excellent event to get those pups and cats neutered!
    Good news that Sasha’s ear drops are history and that she is doing better!
    Years ago I watched scary movies but no more, nothing violent either. Makes my stomach go into acid overdrive. Our week was perfect weather. It’s the kind of week that has people doing the snowbird thing. It was a long wait. It was already brutally hot and humid in June.
    Hope you are having a nice Sunday. Sundays are my favorite day of the week!

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    • Today has been pleasant. Sundays have never been my favorite day and I don’t know why. It’s not about the “Monday” thing. I think it’s a non-routine day that seems to get wasted unlike Saturday when there is stuff to get done. I know. None of that makes sense.

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  17. Testicle Festival? 😆 I love it. Although at first read I thought you were going to say it was a big truck rally or something similar. Have you seen trucks in your area with metal testicles hanging off the back end? I saw one parked downtown last week and couldn’t resist kicking those danglers – yes, I am 5…😜

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  19. Love the Testicle Festival!! That’s a riot. Colors are just coming out here and looking lovely. Wish it didn’t remind me that winter was next. So glad Sasha’s ear drops are done. I hope they helped. One of my current petsitting fosters needs eye drops everyday…so not fun

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    • My issue with the ear drops was that it was a squeeze bottle. I was supposed to put around 7 drops in the ear but I couldn’t see what I was doing once the dispenser was inside the canal. Should have been a bottle with a dropper. She was good until yesterday. I was only able to administer once and did the second one with morning. She is a good cat mostly. Gus cannot be found when the fridge door opens (that’s where the ear drops are).

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      • That’s funny that Gus runs where the fridge door opens. What is Tresaderm you were giving? I always stick it in my pocket for a minute or two before giving so it warms up a bit. I wouldn’t care for cold drops in my ears either!

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