Sunday, August 31, 2014 @
9:56 am
Good morning. I’m not sure where I am leaving off from my
last communication because we’re sharing our big computer. Isa is listening to it, because we had it
earlier before she woke up. When she got
up we were talking to Linda so couldn’t break off, but she caught me after
Linda went – and then of course Hehehe we’d share the computer. She likes listening to a British guy.
Right now something else
is happening that’s a first – ALL THREE DOGS are curled up sleeping by my
feet! WooHOO!!! Yup yup!
Lady and Max came by last night and did a sleep over. Yes, of course Maury and the girls came
too. The unusual part is that the dogs
have ALL stopped playing finally! OMG is
there a lot of activity between them whether they are inside or out. I’m glad to see that Dakota can hold his own
in this pack. We already knew that Lady
and Max could do it, but wow – Lady and Dakota can go at it too. On the other hand it is Max and Lady that can
do the new pull toy we got them where Dakota can’t. At one time I did see him pick-it up and then
drop it behind the recliners in the sitting room. I think he wanted it out of the picture,
because he sure didn’t want to play with it.
He does for sure know though how it’s played through watching the other
two.
So happy the dogs have a
relax button! They sure are happy
together. I think Max is like the older
brother because when he growls, Dakota walks away respectfully. The two younger dogs are definitely the more
playful. AND, nobody has got hurt yet,
Yay!
It was such a nice day
yesterday. Toward the late morning, we
went with Rich to Bass Pro, and then we went to the lake with him just to get
his boat. Hmm, I’d like to get some ice
water, but don’t want to break the peace … better that I remain sitting
down. Anyway, Dakota and I went in … we
went up and down a couple of aisles, but Rich seemed to appreciate most that we
stayed in one place he could find us near the waterfall. After a while we thought, he we’re not
learning anything – though it was good to have people passing us. SOOO we took Dakota for a walk over the small
walking bridge directly next to the two story waterfall. AND, he did it! Good dog.
He did need a little reassurance, but that was to be expected, it was
REALLY loud!
Whoops
HAD to get something to drink. Dakota
down, now the other two? Max is checking
out Dakota’s water … its ok boy. Lady
likes to call the water dishes hers though and just pushed Max out so she could
get a drink and then she spills the water on the floor with her paws. Good now Lady is down and now YAY Max is down
too! Trifecta!
Anyway,
Dakota did really good yesterday. I took
in the walker and he stayed close without being overly curious. After we picked-up Rich’s boat and we took
him for a little walk. He doesn’t seem
to “go” with the vest on – maybe because he’s on duty, so we took it off at the
lake. He’s such a good dog in so many
ways. He also likes the car rides,
though he’s still trying to decide where to sit/lay in the car. For a while yesterday in Rich’s SUV he laid down
lengthwise next to my walker and looked out at people traveling in back of
us. The windows are tinted, so people
might not have seen him, but he was getting a real good look, AND Rich put down
the side windows a little bit on the slower roads so he could get in his
sniffs. Such a good life of sniffs he’s
going to have!
After
we got back, I was a little tired so went immediately to the couch thinking
Dakota had gone at the lake. As I lay
down, he continued to play so after about 10-15 minutes we got up and said, “You
HAVE to go outside!” So we took him, and
then within about a minute, he went and did a poo. Duh!
We’re going to have to learn better the cues around here. I’d still like him to go to the back door and
whine, but I don’t know how to teach him that and it’s confusing in that if
Rich is out on the boat or garage, he will go to the back and whine at that
too.
We’re
looking around at our place looking from one corner inward and seeing some of
it looks a bit lived in. We cleaned up
our kitchen and the other rooms are ok – with cushions out of place though on
the big couch, but we have some towels on the floor from Lady kicking out
water. If there is too much she will do
it, but then they get thirsty again … I guess it’s just something we have to
keep up with. On the other hand, there’s
the cat! She seems to be doing ok
too. She’s using her litter box in the
bedroom and has been pulling out her fur.
She did last season too. I think
she thinks it’s pretty crazy to have all these dogs here, but that’s just one
opinion. I’m really proud of Dakota for
being able to keep up with Maury’s dogs.
He really knows how to play good with other dogs! They are each about the same height, but
Maury’s dogs are a lot heavier. Max is 6
years, Lady is going to be 3 years and Dakota is just 15 months - Lots of
experience in this pack.
Whoops
thought all were laying down, but Lady found Dakota’s treat stash in the bar
area … she’s the only one not lying down.
Ahh There she goes! Rich had gone through here from his shower, to
putting on shoes and socks, and to going out to work on his boat. We’re doing pretty well with the dogs not
insisting they go out. I fed them in two
shifts with Max and Lady going first, and then we fed Dakota who was waiting in
his crate. When Dakota ate I put the
other two in the sunroom, and then Lady came-in and helped Dakota finish
up. Hehehe I THINK he got a good
dose. I’m not going to take him for his
full walk today because they’ve been playing so gosh darn hard. I want him to conserve his energy for his
“Pack Family.” It’s almost like these
guys have been together for their entire life.
I think Dakota showed a little bit of ownership over me when he was
sitting on my lap last night, but we can pet 2-3 dogs at a time without him
being concerned. All three seem to
really know the house.
The
girls and us watched a couple shows last night, well maybe one and a LITTLE of
the other. Maury brought them from Red
Box, but the second wasn’t suitable. At
that point Ame went into the bedroom to do her thing – WITH phone and Isa and
us watched a couple of shows from Disney.
Did I say the part yet where she felt bad about Dakota being in a
crate? She decided to sugar coat that
experience with her laying down in protest next to him. She fell asleep just moments before she had
to go to bed at 11 pm. I’m really sure
that Dakota appreciated her company.
Both the girls seem to like Dakota, but together with the two others,
they are a little wild. Next time they
are up, I will go back and untangle the dog cords and make sure everyone gets
time to be out. Max is the only one who
hasn’t deposited a “load.” Yup yup, got
to watch out for that sort of thing; he might have to go on a walk with Ame,
but as to the urine – we were really glad that all three dogs were using the
back yard appropriately.
Dakota
is kind of funny … twice now he decided to sleep on my feet – MAYBE a little
territorial! I’m pretty sure he knows
we’re his. These dogs seem to come with
other humans!
We
don’t have too much planned today. I saw
Ame had brought her sewing stuff AND Isa brought some books, so I have talked
to her about after lunch sitting down to read for a bit, or reading to me. I could go either way. Just want to support reading. Rich has a really BIG roast in and potatoes
and carrots … Hehehe Isa is really giggling … Maury is supposed to be back
between 2-4 pm and dinner will be about 4 pm, so that they can finish and get
home at a decent time. I understand that
no one has homework, but I’m thinking there’s not Anything? Eh, not my business … just got to ask. I figure that if they are doing their showers
here, they at least have time with Dad Sunday night where they can get that
done. Just want a priority on it.
The air
is really making the house comfortable … It seems that we have had a lot of
muggy weather, and today it’s been misty out.
Maybe if Rich tries hard enough he can pretend he’s on the water.
I think
I really need to now finish up the stuff with Dakota’s first week. I so much want to talk to Katherine and I’m
afraid she might not understand why we’re not calling yet. Just want to get things down on paper before
we forget everything. I should have put
the other writing online so I could see where we were without interrupting Isa. Maybe if I just think a bit. I know I’d talked about the restaurants – well
at least up to the part where that “kind of annoying” person kept talking to us
because of the dog intro. I had been the
first to turn away, and then Katherine was able to end the conversation. We had very good dinners – I had a Burrito
Grande and then afterward we thought we were ordering our favorite dessert, but
apparently we’d ordered something else so we had that instead. It was something doughy with honey and
chocolate and the honey was really good with it. We definitely brought home leftovers.
Maybe
we did something about the break from Saturday to Sunday, not sure right now,
but in case we did, we’ll try to be brief.
Hmm, thinking now we’re pretty sure we talked about Dakota at the beach,
because we are remembering that we were loading a picture or two to yesterday’s
post and it was about the beach. Maybe a
summary there – Just a damn good time!
Afterward, we drove over to Dr. Marvin’s area. The three of us, Rich, Katherine and Us sat
in the SUV and talked strategy. I think
the biggest thing was that Katherine was stating that were didn’t have to take
Dakota to the washroom as much as we thought we had. I was thinking after the drive (1 hour 20
min), after Dr. Marvin’s session, and then again when we got home. She thought just once before we left home and
after we got back even though there was 4-5 hours would be fine. We did concede and go with her plan as it
turned out.
Hmm, back again … we just had another round … two of them seemed
to want and go out, so we brought everyone out, and then they all played again
and got petted, and now we’re trying to get the three of them to lay down
again. They are circling me. Hmm, had to give them all water again; which
is going to lead to everyone needing to pee again. This is how it goes, hmm
One dog down … two … shoot two dogs playing again! Lady is trying to teach Dakota to play with
the tug aware toy. Dakota is
trying. He’s not doing tug o war yet,
but he’s playing a good job of keep away.
At least he’s hold the thick cord in his mouth. But now Max is up again … I don’t think
they’ll ever settled down … they’re in the sitting room. Hmm, more playing and now there is two down
and one checking the kitchen – more water spilled on the ground – that of
course was lady. YAYYYY!!! Finally, all THREE down! That’ was a LOT of activity. If they are playing, how come it’s ME who
gets so tired?!!
Maybe a nice break - where … oh, we went to Dr. Marvin’s and
talked strategy and then Katherine and us got up to do the walk over in the window
hall. BUT, the doors leading from the
elevator to the glass passageway were locked, so we couldn’t do much about
it. We came back downstairs and talked
to Rich and at LEAST we knew the gist of how it goes and that gave us the
confidence we needed. Since then we’ve
been to Dr. Marvin’s TWICE for visits, but we’ll talk about that part in a
bit. I know LONG story!
There’s this part in here somewhere that Katherine and Rich
had been talking about pork roast, sauerkraut and dumplings, so it was decided
that we’d go that route instead – Maybe we mentioned before that Rich had
prepared it before we left. The house
smelled sooo good after we’d gotten back.
I’m pretty sure we had dinner right away. It was very good.
AME IS UP! It’s noon
now. She was up until 3 am talking to
one of her girlfriends. *sigh* I am
pretty sure Maury said she could decide when to sleep. All three dogs are finally down again. Hmm, Ame moved the tug a war toy and Dakota
checked that out, but otherwise they are down again. Had to encourage showers over the next four
hours and I asked if they didn’t make me the bad guy. I HOPE NOT!
We’ll see *sigh*
Ok … we’re at the part after the pork roast … all I remember
here and it blurs into the other nights, but sooner than later, I knew I was going
to get a Katherine hug if I could be persuaded to let her go to bed. Kota we would work with on schedules more
after Katherine had gone, but I think that night we’d kenneled him while eating
because he was too flaky. Poor kid! Playing at the Chicago Beach was something to
remember! But, I’d like to think we’re
tiring out our puppy!
The last morning was the hardest because we knew that
Katherine was leaving. We took one more
picture with her, but I looked terribly fat in the picture. I know, I know, I AM terribly fat, but no one
really wants to see it. I’ve cut down
the picture with just Katherine and Dakota so I have at least a good shot of
them together. I also got a darker shot
with Katherine in the car, but there really wasn’t many pictures taken I’m sad
to say.
The routines the last day were similar in that there was
people getting up, coffee, taking care of the dog, and then eventually after as
much talk as we could squeak in.
Wow! Good Gramma
stuff. I think Ame is in the shower AND
Isa is reading a book on wolves.
YAYYY!!! OH, and all three dogs
are lying down AND we get to be writing too!
Back to the part of Katherine and us getting our hugs and
talking. First, I just want to say that
Katherine is about as gifted as it comes in presenting interesting things to
learn about. I think she has a wild
crazy cool life and especially because it ends up with her being a dog
whisperer. That was the very best
stories to hear about – like how they go through a typical day and what typical
isn’t when you’ve got so many furry friends to take care of and train. I LOVE her husband, because he’s so in love
with Katherine AND the dogs. I think
this kind of lifestyle shows a lot of patience AND love. Now that we have the three dogs overnight, we
can’t believe how tired we get with all the animal activity. It seems that they have to be monitored a
lot. Hmm, also like when Isa is reading
her book. She’s easily distracted, but
of course we have these dogs. Isa stops
to show pictures which is fun for us, but then she’s not reading. That’s not so good.
I just got done taking out the dogs and they are ALL
accomplished and now all THREE of them have had their first of the day
poop. This pooping business is some
serious stuff! Holy Schmolly! Rich is in eating a late lunch, we took our
medicine and now Isa has disappeared. I don’t see the book, so maybe she’s
reading somewhere else, OR the second GD is in the shower! Wouldn’t that be the story!
I’m thinking that my everyday stuff in and out is taking
over my ability to focus on the previous week.
It’s already Sunday so like Dakota has been her for ten days. Maybe I have to jump ahead – did we get to
the sad part about Katherine being at the airport? A lot of the driving time was Rich and
Katherine talking so I could spend my focus on Dakota, but the trip to the
airport, I think it was us whining. The
only thing I really remember beside holding/hugging Katherine was the thought
that I might never see her again and that made me feel really unbelievably sad. She says that we can maybe get together for a
fishing trip with the guys. I don’t know
if that would ever be possible with all her responsibilities, but that’s what
we’re going to hope for.
I guess it’s been a long time before we could get ourselves
while writing to that point …the point where we had to say goodbye to
Katherine. Maybe now that I’ve done it
on paper, I will be able to open that door again. It seemed to be a system rule that until we
finished the weekend, we couldn’t call or talk to her. It’s over now? I’m not going to want to bother her on a
weekend, but think that maybe tomorrow we could call? Maybe we could do it after the girls and all
leave tonight, but I’m not sure. We’ll
have to see how it works out with the system.
I’m thinking now we’re going to have to post too which means that we
close out the week.
Maybe we’ll get to that right now. I saw a stuffed animal on Ame’s bed, so I’m
thinking she’s been sewing, and Isa had taken a washroom break, so we said –
SHOWER! She wanted to take in the Kindle
for music, but much too much water in a small bathroom for that. We helped her adjust the temp, and she’s fine
of course with the rest. Rich is done
eating and is watching TV fishy. He said
something about a half hour, so we’re thinking he’s going to take a nap. He’s been out with the boat and from what we
hear she is ALL shiny! I know I’m going
to have to give it my okie dokie, because he worked real hard on it!... I went out the second time with Max – the
first time I took just him and he urinated, but then he whined at the door
again, so I took all three out. AND he
did his masterpiece! YAY PLUS, the other
dogs wet their piece of real estate too.
I guess it’s a big deal that they go on top of each other’s stuff - Will
have to ask Katherine about that. Maybe
just to produce a new PACK smell!??
Could be?!
NOW EVERYONE is relaxing and I’m doing well because I’m back
at Rich’s computer. I think I’m going to
suggest that Isa finish her book when she gets out and before she’s back to the
computer – BY suggesting she sit in one of the recliners. It’s a real comfortable place to read and it
should be just outside the regular distractions. It’s only about 12-15 feet away, so not REAL
far, but should give her some peace. I
am wondering when the last time she had an eye exam. Her eyes look tired when reading. And, she’s much closer than the traditional
space from me sitting up and reading the computer screen – especially since
we’re at 90% screen. I’ll talk to Maury.
Hehehe THREE REALLY tired dogs – one on each side of me and
the table. They are soooo gosh darn
cool. As tiring as the dogs are, they
are like heaven to be around. I think
their world is so interesting that we’re just amazed by it. I like to think we’re learning how to be a
good pack leader. I don’t know how to
slow them down on the playing other than to separate them for a bit. I know Maury suggested he could leave them at
home, but then neither they NOR Dakota would get the benefit from having a
bigger pack. Nothing anyone said could
convince me they haven’t been having a good time.
AND!!!! You know what?
Through a lot of patience from Lady, she has taught Dakota how to be
playing a good game of tug-o-war!!!!!
I’m soooo excited about that… Just seemed like a good dog thing. He’s not very good at it yet, but Lady was
very patient. He got finally the part
first of picking up the toy – heavy item, then he would run it in front of the
other two dogs to get them to chase him.
He then got to a stage he laid down with it between his front legs, and
then with a LOT of coaching from Lady she would hold it for him to grab with no
challenge. He wasn’t doing that, so she
put it down on the ground to make it more alluring, and then then finally when
he went to grab it, she grabbed her end.
For a while he kept letting it go, but through her very thorough
training he finally held onto it while she held the other end. Soon after she was walking him backward
through the LR, dining area and sitting room.
He took a little longer to offer him resistance becausehe thought
basically that she was walking him.
We did have one little scrape. I wasn’t thinking and I offered Lady a
handful of the new dog food to see if she would like it, but Dakota got too
close and Lady kind of snapped at her.
There was no connection, but it took Dakota a while to not have hurt
feelings. He did back away like he
should have, but I know now that I won’t be feeding them close to one
another. I will always feed them
separate with Maury’s two dogs, and then separately we’ll feed Dakota. It seems to work better too to do Maury’s two
dogs before we feed Dakota too because he’s more laid back about eating.
Now Isa is out and took Dakota with her to brush her
hair. I think she likes it that Kota
comes to her most the time she asks for him.
He’s a really good dog and has been perfect at least with older kids
like Isa and Ame. Ahh Isa is now reading
in the comfy chair. She says usually if
it’s too comfortable she falls asleep and I have no reason to disbelieve her,
but there has to be a balance. Dakota is
still being a distraction for her, but we’ll stick with. Hmm, she’s having much too good a time to
open the book. I guess we have to let
some of it play out - hmm, the next thing?
Both Dakota and Max need to be petted … Now Max is whining at the door
better check that out?
Oh Lordy … had to do the outside stuff AGAIN! This is turning into a full time
occupation! BUT, every time I let them
out they seem to actually use the facility!
Lady did her good doggy this time so it will be Dakota’s turn next. Now Rich is getting up and the dogs are
getting good pets from him. Lady is settled
down and it’s time the other two settle down, but with Rich up they might wait
until he settles. I think he has to go
to the store to get some black lining to hold down the weeds on the side of the
house before he puts down Mulch. I’m so
excited he’s doing this stuff because our house really could be improved with fewer
weeds. We get fewer flowers too, but
think it’s more important to be without weeds, no matter how we do it.
Hmm, it’s just about 2 pm now. Maury took our car with him so as normal
looking forward to it coming back. I
THINK I took out the garbage from it. It
would be embarrassing if I had not. Mostly
it’s garbage food stuff from on the way back from Dr. Marvin’s, but usually
when we bring garbage out or pass by it waiting to get into Rich’s car, we will
check it. It still needs to be vacuumed
though. With Maury’s broken hand, it is
not a good time to ask him for help.
He’s really encumbered by the cast … I don’t know how he’s doing the
dogs, but feel empathy for him AND my sister.
I don’t know if we said it, but while she was healing from getting her
shoulder surgery done, she tore the meniscus in her knee and she broke her
opposite arm by the shoulder. What are
people doing wrong? We don’t seem to get
hurt often so don’t understand much when it happens. Hope this trend is about over.
Isa is back playing a “Sim” game that took a LONG time to
download. She’s talking out loud to
herself, but we’ve really not been paying attention to what she’s saying. She’s focused on something. She said she had gotten to page 17 out of 31
and didn’t really want to finish the book.
She said maybe on the car ride home.
I don’t think you should be FORCED to read, it should be motivated out
of enjoyment, so we let it go. I think
Maury is expected at any time – at least he said he’d be back between 2-4
pm. My guess is that he’s coming back
later. I’d seen him on FB, but he only
put some pictures in there of working at the food place again. I don’t know all of who he went with, but I
saw Ame was there and she seemed to have a good time.
Rich just went out – I guess the black stuff is for later,
he’s going to go address his rods and reels.
He’s getting everything ready for a trip with Bob and Doug on Monday – I
guess its Labor Day. It will be pretty
quiet here tomorrow with just Dakota and us.
Maybe we’ll both need to be taking some naps.
Hmm, wanted to get to the part where we said something about
Dr. Marvin … first though, we did want to say that we’ve been doing pretty well
at keeping our place neat and clean. I’m
really happy about that … with people around more – like the grandchildren and
now with Dakota, it seems we’re doing better at getting up and making sure
things stay clean. *gulp* BUT now just
saying that I realize that we forgot to make our bed this morning. Shoot!
Look around and EVERYONE is relaxed including Rich, Kids AND DOGS … nope
nope we’re not going anywhere! We did
figure that when we’re up and before everyone settles again, we need to keep
our glass ready with something to drink.
THAT is just not worth unsettling everyone! Again, the dogs are hovering in my area, but
to be fair we are in front of the fan/air, AND in front of the sliding glass
doors. That ALWAYS seems to be a hub
with multiple dogs, and least we’re just making that up today
As to Dr. Marvin, Dakota has had two real good trips to his
office. We’re trying to preface them by
saying, “Are we going to Dr. Marvin’s???!!!”
And, then repeat liberally on our way in and just before we see
him. Dr. Marvin has done real well with
him and it seemed we were able to get off the dog for moments of time this last
time. I think we already wrote about
Tuesday when we wrote on Wednesday – Maybe? Maybe not? One of the funny things is that Dakota seems
to know that he’s going to be on a leash, but after his first time of seeing
Dr. Marvin and getting petted, he’s got a sneaky thing where he’s laying on the
floor, and then he crawls on his elbows under the coffee table to get some more
free petting by Dr. Marvin.
This time we worked eventually to be more assertive in
telling Dakota – no more pets and that he had to settle lay down. We did give him a couple drinks of water, and
we gave him one of his small bones to settle down. I want to build things like that as routines
so he knows what to expect. SOOO, like
Katherine AND Dr. Marvin said we have to work on being more assertive. We have done better at getting him to sit and
be “down” (lying down) and we’re getting better at saying, “Go on…” and
expecting him to walk off leave us alone.
He can’t be taking all of our attention.
The other thing that came up at Dr. Marvin’s was that Rich
said to tell Dr. Marvin, we have to work on our weight again. I guess since about the time the girls were
over a couple weeks ago and Austin was over, we stopped taking charge of what
we were eating and recording it on our MFP site. That reminds me we should be doing it now
too. We’ve only had mini-wheat and a
bowl of vegetable salad so far hmm,
about 2:30 pm. I think it’s time to have
some popcorn!
Hmm, there sure are a lot of transitions. The dogs are all up and need to lie back
down. Isa has switched over to the
computer, Rich came through looking for tea, Ame came out for bread and
chips. We told her we have more or better,
but it seemed fine AND we have popcorn, a couple or tortillas *sigh*AND some
ice for ice water. The dogs are thinking
they want to go out with Rich because they can see him from the door. Good two are laying down … YAY there goes the
third. Remember to tell Dr. Marvin that
we spent a good bit of weekend time hoping that everyone settles down –
especially the three dogs!
Hmm, another break –we decided that we should make some
cookies for dessert – so we did that AND Maury called to say he’d be about 45
minutes late. That was almost to be
expected. I’m going to guess he was
having a good time – said something about the best breakfast place ever. *sigh*
SOOO to Dr. Marvin’s - I think I told you about the part
where he petted the dogs a couple of times and there were – between the two
dates that sneaky stuff under the table?
Hmm, seems we may have been here before.
Well, are we almost through then?
We could say something about how spectacular that Dakota has been
doing. During the latter part of the
week he even took me out to do the walk with the walker.
Hmm, that’s interesting … it’s about walker time right
now. I wonder if we should take our
walk. Rich has been able to do the
weather, not sure if I could do it too?
Just had to go into the bedroom to cool ourselves down - I’m thinking in
reality that I’ve been up and down enough so I don’t have to walk and for that
matter Dakota has been having a busy day too with so many people to keep
together. Maybe we’ll pass on that and
just focus on the next thing as being cleaning off the table. Hmm, how bad is it? Not too bad, just a couple of minutes. The hardest part will be turning off the
computer. AND, we’re not ready to do
that yet.
I didn’t turn out hungry enough to eat the popcorn. We’ll just throw that. Wall-to-wall dogs. They are so pretty together and Isa caught
the similarities of colors in that they all match. It’s been a nice weekend though we look
forward to putting our feet up too! Oh
and we started the dishwasher one more time because we thought we would have
too much a problem after adding dinner dishes.
Mostly it was just morning, lunch and cookie dishes, but I figured it
wouldn’t fit the roast pan unless we did some now. Dinner wouldn’t be until another 1 ½ hours so
shouldn’t be a time crunch. We did have
some conversation and cookie testing between me and the two Granddaughters. We decided the cookies weren’t just right …
needed more sugar or flavoring. *sigh*
So many cookie batches yet to try. Its
ok, they are “good enough” for dessert.
PLUS, the three of us can now wait the extra time for Maury to get
here. Not worrying about Rich he had a
late lunch.
I don’t know if he finished the weeding project on the side,
or if he was waiting before he got the covering. He’s been outdoors long enough, but I knew it
took a long time to do the boat AND I think he went from that to fishing
poles. I think these are good days for
him, though I’m disappointed about the yard not improving or the recumbent bike
not getting put together. The fishing
stuff is on a deadline with him going out tomorrow. You heard the part about getting our
treadmill on Friday? That’s really good news
J
Hmm, that’s interesting.
Rich just readjusted everyone when he came in asking me to make
tea. That wasn’t a problem, but dogs all
get up, BUT by the time we sat down again after making the tea the dogs were
already lying down! What good dogs they
are. I think between the activity and
the heat, they are really tired out. We
just filled their water dishes one more time.
Lady has emptied them out a couple times so we’re not really filling
them up too high.
Running out of steam myself, but know this is the build-up
time to put things in order before the business of dinner takes over. It’s 3:50 pm now and we just gave Isa a note
to take a break soon to help me with the table.
More my stuff than hers, but her help will help, especially in stepping
over the dogs! Just remembered how much
we love them, BUT it does take a little time, balance and coordination to make
sure everything is in order. I think
we’re going to take a break for the night ourselves.
Anything left of the day?
Not really. I expect Maury here
in about 45 min. Before that Rich will
come in and do the leftover things for dinner and he’ll be so happy if we get
to the table first! After that we will
have dinner, dessert, a little talk, and then Maury and his will have to go –
thinking about 6:30-7 pm. Then Rich and
I will get comfortable, I’ll clean up the mess before dessert. Hmm, we’re going to have to take out the dogs
one more time to get them to settle before dinner and they are going to have to
be fed. Think we’re going to talk about
a staging area for Ame and Isa’s stuff too so it’s easier for them to get up
and leave. Just don’t want to push them
any earlier than we have to. I’ll
probably have on PJs before they hit the end of the driveway Hehehe – yup like
that. Think Rich and we will watch a
show, and then we’ll get the animals ready for bed – make sure we take our
medicine, and then we’ll head for bed for the coolness AND to massage
Rich. Hmm, thinking too – I could take a
shower. Maybe by then Rich will need one
too.
Hehehe – he came in all sweaty saying he has to
hydrate. I asked him if he was going to
take a shower tonight because he was dripping wet. He smiled coyly and said he had taken one in
the morning! BLAH! We can read each other by now! EVERY one is
taking a shower! It’s been a good weekend the girls being here help both of us
to keep busy and get things done. For me
it’s been the blog entry. I think next
we’ll email it to ourselves so we get it back to our computer, though don’t
know until later if we’ll post the entries tonight or tomorrow morning. It makes me feel good that we put in good
time watching and taking care of everyone.
I probably seem the least important around here, but like to think in
the middle we’re what keep things running along - right?!
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