Jacobson Flehmen

    When kitties smell something bad, they make this horrified (and horrifying) face by dropping their lower jaw just a bit. This is called flehming or flehmening. They do it because they have a secondary scent organ, Jacobson's Organ, and opening the mouth a bit is how to activate it. The Monkey does it both on my sweater and on the comforter. Since they're mostly said to do this when they've done #1 or #2 in a given place, this doesn't speak well of the her behavior towards either my clothes or my bedding. But it's pretty funny.
    Meanwhile, Dad has been accepted at the nearer-to-town dialysis facility. We are warned that they are much bigger and busier than the place he's gone to heretofore and that he might get lost in the shuffle. I looked it over and it didn't look like any kind of snakepit. And hopefully they can manage to stop dialysis without leaving him dehydrated and with dangerously low blood pressure. Or if not, we can always go back to the old place.
    He'll be going on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, so he'll be free on Friday nights if Margaret and he want to go to the dances at the Senior Center again. (Yay!) We start at the new place Tuesday morning; please wish him luck.