The Rankin Zoo

After our quick trip to California last weekend we headed up to Princeton, NJ on Thursday for my 10 year college reunion. Ten years… that can’t be right. Anyway, Princeton has a unique way of doing reunions and lets just say it’s crazy.
We got a late start on Thursday so we didn’t get [...]

(First of all, I got way behind on the blog so I’m adding these and backdating them.)
B, Coral, and I headed out to California for a brief trip. We went for a memorial service for B’s grandfather, Julius. The purpose of the trip was sad but Coral got to meet several relatives for [...]

Coral seems to pick a sound and then make it the sound of the week. At first it was Dddddddaah. Maybe it meant “dad” or, more likely, it meant “dog”. Then there were a lot of Ccccccah sounds – maybe “cat”? She moved on to focus on the Ggggg sound, usually [...]

I forgot to mention that we posted two more batches of photos recently. One batch was from B and Coral’s trip to Chapel Hill to visit B’s mom. Coral had a great time hanging out with Aunt Iris, Meme, Aunt Emily, Uncle Jon, and most of all, Dakota!
There’s also a batch of pictures [...]

Last year during a regular checkup we discovered that Marble had a heart murmur. We decided to just keep an eye on it for a while since she didn’t have any symptoms of being sick. A few weeks ago we took her in for a checkup because she had been vomiting a lot. During this [...]

Coral considers herself lucky that she has so many cats and dogs to play with. Here she is patting Misty. One of her other cats, Marble, is on the mend. More on that later.
–Andy