MC Sunday

Karen, good luck with the wasp execution.  Be careful!  I "helped" someone move a honey bee hive one time and we made our own bee suits.  Not one of my brighter ideas.  The bees that got in couldn't get out and they weren't happy bees.  Luckily none of us are allergic to bee stings.  

We will hopefully be finishing the carpet cleaning marathon today.  DH has a bandaged finger from a minor accident last night and Twister has an unexplained gash above one eye. !  I have no idea how that happened or exactly when.  It's not bad and probably happened when we were playing outside yesterday evening.  He didn't lose a drop of blood just some hair and a few layers of skin.  Glad it wasn't his eye, that could have been really bad.

Belle and Rex think it's very cool to have the furniture moved around while we clean the carpets.  Yesterday they were racing through the house, weaving between things and leaping OVER the couch.  I had to be the mean Mom and put an end to the obstacle course race. lol  I just had an image of Bugsy doing that and shivered all over.

Back from the garden, still have stuff coming in. Today it was cabbage, tomato's, beans and some eggplant.

Jackie, Kord uses the house and furniture for an agility course all the time! And yes he does go over the couch, or he did up until I put it against a wall! His favorite trick is to take a running flying jump over my chest at the end of the bed and land pretty dang near the pillows, one of these days he is going to miss judge the distance and wind up with a smooshed face.

And Karen, throwing anything in a house when a large dog is involved takes extra planning, they are more agile and enthusiastic than their size allows.

Off to clean something....maybe.....

 It's kind of hot today already. Nice and sunny thought! Speaking of Sunny (aka sunshine) she is barking right now at some phantom person, object or nice right now! Typical every 5 min event.

I missed a doc appt yesterday :( Totally forgot about it. That'll cost me $50 no doubt.

JackieG

Yesterday they were racing through the house, weaving between things and leaping OVER the couch.  I had to be the mean Mom and put an end to the obstacle course race. lol  I just had an image of Bugsy doing that and shivered all over.

Young Bugsy used to love to leap over the L shaped couch in our family room - the grandest of games.  He would leap over the corner and into the hallway and loved to play hard to get whilst playing this game.  Countless times we would close the door to the family room and try to put a stop to it.  One time he lept over the couch 20 times before I could stop him. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Not sure how we really ever got him to stop doing that but boy are we glad we did LOL

Are you sure Bugsy's not part Bull Terrier? lol  My favorite dog-sitting clients/friends' Bull Terrier would rearrange the furniture when he got the zoomies.

Patrick, my sister's 9 yr old Akita? mix is a very basic dog - not complicated at all.  He eats, poops, sleeps, chews bones, takes any opportunity to get food, and loves to be loved on.  When the food or water bowl are empty, he licks them loudly and that's the signal to get him more.  I ignored him because I was doing something else.... until I heard his nails and tags dinging on something in the other room.  Turns out that turd jumped into the tub, looking for water.  He needs a TPLO surgery, yet somehow manages to race up and down the hallways and jump into a slippery tub with a glass door around it.  Getting out was harder.  He looks tired now.

Patrick sounds a lot like Sassy except she won't jump in the tub. She will stick her head in if I'm showering and drink the water though. She also does the bowl licking thing. If I take her out to go potty, she always stops at her food dish and licks it to make sure it's really empty and gives me that pleading eye stare saying "look mom, it's empty" :)

DH got stuck working overtime this morning and just got home. Normally we'd be eating breakfast now but he's showering and then will go to the gym. I'm super hungry but I'll just snack on something and then have a big brunch.

I discovered something last night that bummed me out. I was chatting on the phone with my best friend and had a couple glasses of wine. I didn't drink more than 2 glasses and I had a bunch of ice in there too. I never felt really tipsy or anything but an hour or so later, I had the worst headache I can remember. I took motrin but it didn't really help. I don't have high blood pressure but it felt like that kind of a headache, so I decided to check it with one of those little machines we inherited from my dad. My bp was 92/61 but my pulse was 99. I have no idea what that all means, but I know 99 is a high pulse and probably related to the headache. I check on this hysterectomy website this morning and see a post about alcohol and someone says that with menopause (surgical or normal), the body can't handle alcohol like it used to. Well, that was good to find out but kind of depressing if everytime I have some wine I'm going to pay for it with a blinding headache

haha, I read 40* and thought - BOY! it's cold! but then... I remember you use a different scale.

it's nice out - very overcast, and cool(ish). too bad it's gonna rain... would be a nice day to go to the park.

erica1989

haha, I read 40* and thought - BOY! it's cold! but then... I remember you use a different scale.

What a morning.  Last night the weatherman went against the NWS and said that the little something brewing off Tampa wouldn't surprise him at all if it turned into a tropical storm.  Yep.  We are under tropical storm warnings.  It's named now and coming right at Panama City so we'll feel some affects.

Spent the morning battening the hatches.  I have a TON of plants on the front porch that had to be brought in and all the little deco stuff from the gardens.  The only potted plants that didn't come in were the boganvelia in the huge crocks that weigh about a hundred pounds each,and those we put right up against the house.  And of course the awnings on the RV had to go up, the windows down the TV antenna secured........then all the stuff on the BACK patio.  Feel like I've put in a weeks work in a couple hours.

But, now that everything is secure, nothing will probably happen, which is just fine with me, since we have two more systems brewing.

Guess we'll be sticking around home today.......drat!

Glenda - I hope you guys get nothing more than a good drenching out of this. I hadn't seen much news about the storm and had no idea until I got a CNN news alert. My friend lives in Tampa and didn't mention anything when I talked to her last night, so I hope no one is caught off guard with this. Let us know how you're doing.

Well, Glenda, weren't you bored the other day with nothing to do? lol  Do yourself a favor and buy bottled water jugs when there's no threat of TS.  Batteries, make sure the flashlights are handy.  Think blizzards back in MI, but back up the plan with escape routes should things get bad.  A weather radio is good when the power goes out, too.  You'd be surprised what can become a projectile outside in a TS, so keeping your trees trimmed is a good reminder.  Wind can do some serious damage.

Something is up with my thumb.  It hurts when I bend it, right at the joint closest to the nail.  I don't recall doing anything to it, which means it might have happened with the dogs, you know how that is.  Tt's been hurting since yesterday.

cakana

My friend lives in Tampa and didn't mention anything when I talked to her last night, so I hope no one is caught off guard with this.

I'm just outside of Tampa - and didn't know anything about it until Glenda posted! So - I turned on the weather channel real quick- and it's not suppose to affect us much. Just a bit of rain down here - it's brewing off our cost - but headed north.

Bottled water is a MUST. We have cases in our garage *just in case*.

 I want a Slurpee.

That is all.