Mindless Chatter - Wed/Thurs

I've had to nap every day this week! I don't know why I'm so sleepy.

sl2crmeg

I've had to nap every day this week! I don't know why I'm so sleepy.

When I was having to take naps all of a sudden I was pregnant and didnt know it yet.

Today is Samantha's 3rd bday. I want her to be a little itty bitty baby again.

Cheyanne and Kujo are driving me insane. They wont leave the cat food alone. Errrr. 

Oh yeah I now have a car again BUT the battery is freaking dead. Gotta go out and get a new one. What's next?!! 

 oh man I am exhausted! We got back from our mountain trip yesterday about 3 and I was brushing B and saw a flea. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaackkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!  I have never seen a flea before so I was in a huge panic.  So B got quarantined in the kitchen, was brushed, Frontlined, the house was vacuumed from top to bottom, and washed his bedding and everywhere he touched.  But I was still freaking out, so went out today and got a flea comb and flea bath and cleaned everything all over again.  Oh and I used Mule Power on the carpets. There were some dead ones and a few just barely alive ones on his bedding this morning and when I finished bathing him I used the comb again and found some on his tail.  God bless you people with long haired dogs because this is like a grooming overload for me.  It's a lot of surface area even if the hair is super short!

Finally I called the vet about 1 today and said now what do I do and she seemed to be laughing at me - like psycho you need to chill.  She said I shouldn't Frontline spray him as well as frontline and the flea bath.  I don't I sure am itchy So I unquarantined him and am trying to chill.  Put a post in the health section last night and got nothing so if there is anything else I need to do TELL ME!

I have like 70+ unread messages in my mailbox(es) and a pile of stuff to get through.  

The guy doing our porch said he had to special order the doors and once they come in they will finish - but it will likely be another week - phoey.

Had a great time in the mountains and will post some pics and some tales once I gather myself.

Good luck with the car Julie!

Fleas! Yuck! I agree I do not like them. I have been fortunate with my dogs and I have never had a problem nor do I use Frontline. My sister-in-laws old dog had fleas and when Hodie would go hunting with Shadow, Shadow would bring them home. We found this wonderful spray (Adams Flea and Tick) it stunk going on but after it dried it actually smelled good. You could SEE the fleas jumping "ship". Then we would bomb our house after the fleas jumped off. The bomb was called "X-trol" I loved that stuff. It was guaranteed to kill fleas and larvae up to a year. It also killed spiders and all other creepy crawlies!!! My flea problem was gone.

Just this morning I was thinking about X-trol and wondering what it would do for MOSQUITOES!!!!! OMG we have tons of the suckers in our house. Our yard is so wet from all the rain, no we don't have standing water except for our yard. Every time we open the door to let the dogs in our out we get skeeters. I am so bitten up. I have one on my LIP this morning. This year has been so bad.

 

 well I put a white sheet on his bedding and there was one dead flea and some dirt - flea dirt or plain old dirt I cannot say.  I think we are fine now.  I am really surprised that he got them as we have never seen one prior to this so either the cabin we stayed in had them, or the silly free roaming lab that followed us home from the river had them or he got them from the landscape.  I had a problem with the Frontline packaging last month and I wonder about that - some of the stuff squirted away from him. When I spoke to them they said NOT to re-apply.

however he got them I feel terrible - and am still mentally itchy LOL

little bit more normal day today - looking forward to it

 OK here is a "icky" story. I had an old horse named Casey and his boarding situation was not working out. I wanted to move him back to DH's parents farm, but horses are social and he needed a buddy. So we went on a mission to find a pony. Cheap, old one that would die around the same time as Casey. We found this shetland breeder who had over 150 ponies. He sold us one for $150 because he couldn't get her pregnant. He figured she was done being a broodmare, and while she was one of his best mares (showing and producing) in her day he would sell her without papers to us. We called her Pooh.

Obviously this pony was not in the best of health by comparison to the other ponies on the farm. You could see her ribs (and other skeletal structures), she was out with the other broodmares whose bellies were so full of foals they almost dragged on the ground. So we brought her home first. I wanted to get a vet check on her, and clean her up before bringing Casey home. Health wise she was "ok" (full of worms) but she had...LICE!!!!!! I had to clip her and de-louse her before I let Casey near her. When I clipped her I took a pass through her hair and the lice would run into the thick hair. IT WAS THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I HAD EVER EXPERIENCED!!!!!! By the time I was done I was sure they were crawling all over me. They say lice are specie specific, at that moment it did not matter to me. We left the farm, DH ran into Meijer and bought some 'Rid' we drove into the garage, shut the garage door, I completely stripped in the garage (we burned my clothes) and I ran in and took my shower. It was nasty!

The pony worked out GREAT! We brought her home in April, de-wormed her, fattened her up and she had a foal on July 10. A boy. The vet was shocked! We had NO IDEA she was pregnant. I did ask him too when he first examined her. He was a BIG (6'7";) guy and he was too big to palpate a 10 hand pony, but he said he did not see how she could be in her current state. I think our vet was surprised the colt lived too. I am sure he would not have if we had not gotten the pony treated her for worms gave her shots all the necessary stuff. Casey died in September (2 years after we bought Pooh) he was shy of his 32nd birthday, and Pooh died in November. We sold the foal for $200 at an auction.

 I have been seriously considering squeeter bombing my yard this year. They are worse than ever. I put up some citronella lanterns around my back deck which does seems to help a little. The flies are really bad too! I've never had flies this bad before. I don't understand where they are coming from. They are outside all over the place and I keep the yard picked up of poop.

 I can't believe it's Thurs. already. where did the week go?

I can't believe it's almost NOON on Thursday. I've been up since 7am, working. Considering I went to bed at 4 *yawn* naptime is coming.

It's overcast today and Pirate is so sad. Usually when I work from home I sit at the kitchen bar, and I can open the slider and he hangs out in the sunshine on the patio. It's not sunny today so he'll go lay out there, come in, squeak some toys, lick his bowl with sad eyes, lay under my chair, go outside, come in...poor dog. He's so confused without sunshine!

Payday is tomorrow, hooray!!

sl2crmeg

Payday is tomorrow, hooray!!

Amen to that!!!

Poor Pirate with no sunshine to lie in.  Life is tough little buddy.

Jewlieee

 I put up some citronella lanterns around my back deck which does seems to help a little.

Does it? I was wondering if we should put some around our patio, start them as the sun goes down, and then shut them when we bring the dogs in at night for bed. I can't handle them IN MY HOUSE!!!! buzzing my ears in bed, biting my lip. F****** vampire B****s!!!  

I am working in DC this week and have Rosco with me, but at day care during the day. Yesterday they called me totell me he is due for his Lepto booster, so I said OK you can give it to him since he needs to be UTD to be at daycare.

My bill was $150. Daycare - $38.75, Seeing the vet for the shot -- $71, Lepto booster - $37, other stuff -- whatever makes up the difference.

Can I just say how glad I am to live in upstate NY where the COL is soooooo much lower. Holy cow! $71 to see the vet for 3 minutes is insane.

 Ann, I do think that they help a bit. I got them on sale at Home Depot.

Lots of interest in Abbie! I just got off the phone with another disc dogger who wants her. I hope that he gets approved. She really needs a disc dog home. 

 I think I'm gonna go and float around in the pool for a bit.  My niece took both of my kids to her uncle's today while she babysat his kids.  Tyler's working so I have the house to myself.  I used it to clean, but now I'm hot and sticky.  That pool looks inviting.  I haven't been in it yet, every kid in the neighborhood has, but I haven't. 

Oh and I'm keeping an eye on Crusher.  The oddest thing happened today while I was vacuuming.  He wandered over to me like he always does when I have the vaccum running so I vaccumed him for a bit and all of a sudden he just squatted and pooped at me feet!  Completely normal, firm, good sized poop, but right there in the living room!  WTH?  Why would he do that?  He didn't even ask to go out first?  I know I couldn't have been ignoring him.  Is it possible that I just relaxed him so much with the vaccume(he loves it) and he didn't feel like walking to the door and giving up that time?  I'm still in shock, and quite annoyed.  

VanMorrison

sl2crmeg

Payday is tomorrow, hooray!!

Amen to that!!!

Times two. I just checked online and I have $0.00 - I wonder if I get in trouble for that?! I'm glad I have direct deposit. Hopefully I'll get a big fat paycheck this week, I have to pay my car insurance, credit card, and cell phone. BOO. Hopefully, I'll have enough left over for groceries and gas!

I'm thawing steaks for dinner and I think I want to go buy a couple of baking potatoes. Oh wait...I have $0. Shoot. French fries it is! I already have those in the freezer. Hopefully I can convince everyone to have a salad too. Mmm, I love dinner.