the hedgie-fund

in response to lots of questions about how to make a donation for aloysius's surgery, i've finally figured out how to place a Paypal donation button on the blog. thank you!

anything is much appreciated, of course, and now even more so as the vet just called an hour ago to say that they found a third tumor while he was under anaesthesia. eeeek. it appears aloysius might be in the running for lumpiest hedgehog of the year. i'm glad they found it, and sad it was there, and sad that hedgie's got to go through all this.

but i think it's for the best. and they're going to send him home with pain medication so that he won't be too uncomfortable, i hope.

thanks so much to everyone who's helped! it's comforting to know that people are out there thinking good thoughts for him.

hedgehog in the grass

aloysius was supposed to have had his surgery yesterday, but after dropping him off at the vet at an hour when i am rarely, if ever, awake, they called to say that they would rather do the operation on friday (tomorrow). apparently, the tumor on his head is located in a rather tricky spot, and after explaining something to me about the quill-skin margin, they said they'd rather have an additional surgeon present, one who's got a great deal of experience performing surgeries like this. which is absolutely fine with me, except for the waking up extraordinarily early again ;)

but so it goes. and so tomorrow it is.

anyway, in anticipation of the big day, not to mention the looming absence of quills from one side of hedgie's head, my boyfriend and i took aloysius out for a photo shoot early wednesday morning. these are some of the photos that we took.


you can see the scar from the earlier tumor-removal on his nose pretty easily.


but he's still awfully cute...

aloysius in the grass!

i wish *i* could do this

(roll up in a ball, i mean...)

books #6

more books...

Miss Pickerell on the Moon, 8 x 5.5 x 0.5

$15

I Heard the Owl Call My Name, 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
$15

Small Game Hunting, 9.25 x 6 x 0.5
$18
SOLD

Speedwriting: Shorthand, Book 1, 8 x 5.5 x 0.25
$15

Famous Mysteries of the Sea, 8 x 5.5 x 0.5
$18
SOLD

and more books...

Fanfare for 2 Pigeons, 8 x 5.5 x 0.75
$18

Newsreel Man, 9.75 x 7.5 x 0.75
$30

The First Book of Water, 8.75 x 7.5 x 0.25
$15
SOLD

One in a Thousand, 9.25 x 6 x 0.25
$15

Essays: Thomas Carlyle, 5.5 x 3.75 x 0.75
$15
SOLD

My Friend Mac, 9.5 x 7 x 0.25
$15

books #5

and yet more books for your viewing pleasure!

Film and the Director, 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5

$18
SOLD

All About the Flowering World, 9.25 x 7 x 0.75

$22
SOLD

Grishka and the Bear, 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5

$18
SOLD

10 Trained Bears, 7.25 x 4.75 x 0.25
$10

Jokes and How to Tell Them, 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5

$18
SOLD

hedgehog update #1

(aloysius as a little tyke, 2001)

aloysius is scheduled to go in for surgery next wednesday. the vet says they'll have to remove some of the quills on the right side of his head, and they predict that those won't grow back, so he'll have a little bald spot! poor little guy.

i think we've raised nearly three-quarters of the surgery costs between the books that have already been bought and those that people have pledged to buy.

thank you all for your kind & incredibly generous support.

i've got a pile of books ready to be made into journals, and a huffy hedgehog sitting atop them all:

(aloysius as a grumpy old man, 2007)

books #4

thanks for looking...

Perky the Partridge, 10 x 7 x 0.25
$18

The Spell of the Yukon, 7.5 x 5.25 x 0.5
$15
SOLD

A Revelation of the Chinese Revolution, 7.75 x 5.25 x 0.75
$20
SOLD

Casanova's Escape from the Leads, 6.75 x 4.5 x 0.5
$15

Foolin' Around, 7 x 4.5 x 0.25
$12
SOLD

The First Book of Glass, 8.75 x 7.25 x 0.25
$15

British Grub, 5.75 x 5.75 x 0.25
$15
SOLD

All About Prehistoric Cave Men, 9.25 x 7 x 0.75
$22
SOLD

Wir Lernen Deutsch, 8.5 x 6 x 0.75
$20

The Jade Flute, 7.5 x 4.5 x 0.25
$12