Driveby – almost literally, as I’m posting this from my shiny shiny new iPhone 3G from a local café. Had East Side Mario’s for a late din-din. (Baddaboom, baddabing). 'Twas acceptible, though my meatballs (the ones littering my pasta, you pervs) tasted like they came from the freezer and were made by Dinty Moore. 
Gonna finish my chai latte and go home now.
Okay, “One Missed Call” is a very creepy movie, yeesh…
Pugs, SpaceDawg is what they usually call “purebred, no papers.” She might very well be AKC registered, but rescue dogs don’t come with documentation! Judging by her size and coloration, she’s a M’loot variety of Malemute, they’re the big honking ones that tend to have the arrows on their faces. She was rescued by a coworker, who had a male that looked so much like Space they could’ve come from the same litter–she said she wanted to breed Space and when I adopted her the coworker was still trying to talk me into it. Yeah, as though I’d breed non-registered pups from a bitch that hadn’t even been shown! Anyway, I think my coworker was misinformed about SpaceDawg, because I think she was spayed young–it’s nearly impossible to see if she has a spay scar but she’s never shown even the slightest sign of heat in seven years so I think she had the operation before my coworker got her. This is consistent, from what I’ve been able to figure her original owner worked for a vet, so aside from crap nutrition (corn based supermarket dog food :rolleyes: ) SpaceDawg got good physical care but her owner had clinical depression and basically just ignored her.
When I got her she knew how to sit and kinda responded to her name (originally Cheyenne, but I changed THAT tout de suite!) but otherwise had no manners whatsoever and apparently had never been walked on a leash–she was totally wild and I developed some huge tricep muscles from holding her back. Malemutes are bred to pull stuff and I’m lucky my arms are still attached, because that girl could and did pull like a freight train! I found out that she’d do anything for a walk, so we bonded over hiking trails. We hiked all around Silver Falls, every big park in Portland, a good many trails in the Bull Run wilderness, Mt St Helens, many beach trails, you name it and that dog and I have walked it! I’m really not joking when I say she and I have hiked hundreds of miles together, I figured up one year that we’d done well over a hundred miles and we had about five years of active hiking before she started to exhibit joint problems a couple years ago. That was when we started her on the glucosamine and then got Widget, who helped her get her form back so she could hike again, but never as far as she did when she was a young’un. She still gets excited when she sees her leash even though she can barely hobble on three legs right now–somehow she thinks she can magically go-for-a-walk if I put on the leash… I’d give anything to be able to take one last hike with her. 
Damn, I’m sorry to be such a monomaniac on the subject but I can’t seem to help it right now–I keep trying to fix my brain on doing something, anything, but I just keep coming back to her. I realize it’s part of the grieving process that I’m working out ahead of time and that it’s normal and all, but do feel free to skip over my maunderings–I really should be putting this into LiveJournal or something.
Ack, I’m going to bed, I’m useless… g’night, y’all!
**rosie ** - apart from the french doors (which are going to be installed today in place of the old sliding door) the only window in the apartment is the small one in the closet. The bedroom and living room are along the wall that is under the front porch, so there’s no way to put a window in either. The kids claim they don’t care. Me, I hate it. I had a layout designed that would have put the window in the bedroom, but it was voted down.
The living room is going to be sorta open to the kitchen and the french doors, but those two rooms are still going to be cave-like. That’s what lamps are for, and they can still come upstairs and hang with us if they want to see the sun…
My studio, on the other hand, has 3 of those same small windows, but one is going to be yonked out and replaced with a door that’s mostly window. I’ll have tons of natural light.
Yeah, it’s Saturday and I’m up way too early. My bladder demanded I tend to things about 4:30, and no matter how I tried, I couldn’t fall back to sleep. So I’m up. Once **FCD ** drags himself out of bed, we’re going to get breakfast, then to Lowe’s for the stuff we need to install the door. And somewhere along the line today, I need to bake a pineapple upside down cake. Tomorrow before we leave for the party, I’ll do a quick batch of brownies and build the banoffi pie.
I can’t wait till I have a weekend of sloth. Some day… some day…
Look, it is again morning.
Actually, I feel pretty good. Why, you ask? Because Nat slept from 8:30 to 5:30 with only one wake-up. Glory hallelujah.
Of course, he still cried for half an hour when we put him to bed, but maybe that’ll improve.
Time for tea.
Yay for sleep, LiLi!!
For the record, I have the next MMP done and ready to post. Anyone wanna bet whether I’ll remember on Monday Morning??
We’ll help you remember.
DON’T FORGET TO POST THE MMP!!!
Like that! 
However, you could post it Sunday evenin’. It ain’t like there’s a hard and fast rule or anything.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. The temp outside is only 65 degrees! :eek: Get out the woolies! Check the pool for an iceberg!
Seriously, it’s soooooooo nice out. Think Ima go to the back porch, have me a cuppa and enjoy the weather.
Later Y’all!
It’s 58 degrees here, swampy. Guess I should haul out the long undies.
Yay for a reasonable amount of sleep, LiLi! Hope this works out to be a longer-term thing.
Continued hugs for Smartie and skritches for SpaceDawg.
I went to bed late because the Olympic opening ended really late, but wow, was it spectacular. I just browsed through the photos from the parts I missed and they were amazing. I’ll have to go look for video after a while.
I’ma get started on painting now. Hoping to garden after a while, too.
Back later…
GT
Morning, Mumpers. It’s 65 this morning. Ahhhhh. It’s starting to feel a lot like hockey. Working all weekend as usual.
Afternoon, Mumpers! I’ve been busy already today. I was up early, and I do mean really early, to go to the zoo. We had to be there by 7.45am as we had a 2hr tour with one of the head keepers to find out what happens every day before they open to the public at 10am.
We had a walk around and a very interesting talk from him about the costs of running the zoo and how they get a lot of supplies etc as they’re a registered charity, and then we went to feed animals. We were allowed into the sealion’s enclosure and each got the chance to feed them some fish, and the same with the penguins. Then (my favourite bit 'cos it’s one my favourite animals), we got to feed the giraffes! The zoo has three female giraffes but sadly the only male passed away a few weeks ago from old age, and there’s a baby too who is only a couple of months old.
The adults come right up to the feeding deck and take the food straight from your hands which was great, and they even stay around for a little bit of fuss. Fantastic experience!
Then we went off to have breakfast ourselves, in one of the zoo’s cafés. After that, we could have spent the whole day in the zoo as we were allowed to, but we had to come home because I needed to get Shadow to the vet to get his stitches out. Now he’s all unstitched, he’s very happy. The plastic tub came off his head on Wednesday so he has finally been able to have a proper clean, and eat properly too.
Since he’d been so well-behaved at the vets, he got some treats when I came home and now he’s giving his scar a good washing too. I haven’t told him that this afternoon’s delights include a large worming tablet and then a ride to the cattery for his holiday. He’ll have Ophelia for company so I think they’ll survive the break.
oh-- that-- :eek:
you’re playing into my irrational fears!!! I always have that moment when I zip up the tent for the night when my brain starts telling me that anyone could attack us during the night etc etc etc.
See you on the flip side folks! If I have signal I can post from the great outdoors on the evil phone!
Miss you!
PS. LiLi– yeah for uninterrupted sleep!!!
Doggio- love hockey-- go Sabres!!!
Y’all shut up about your 65°!!! 
It was 79° before the sun came up here! We’re supposed to get up to 97° with a heat index of around 106°. Ugh.
I was gonna take the dogs to the park, but my tummy is acting up. So I guess we’ll just hang out, and do laundry and stuff. Maybe tomorrow.
Yay for Saturdays!
ETA: First on 8! Neener, neener!
It’s fall here today. currently 16C. It’s glorious.
Nat and I are off to the St. Laurence Market with my Mum, Mr. Lissar is going to stay home and grumble about getting up early on weekends.
Happy Saturday Mornin’ all.
:: scritches for Space Dawg :: (((((Smarty)))))
I watched the amazing spectacle that China put on for the Opening ceremony last night. While I was watching, I decided to pull out the knitting needles to do something with my hands. I have a problem, and I’ve had it for as long as I’ve been able to knit. Whenever I try to make any stitch other than a garter stitch, it still comes out looking like a garter stitch. I just don’t understand it. Now, I’ve done large/complicated projects all in garter stitch, but I’d really like to be able to do the rest. I have gotten a stockinette when I have used four needles to knit in a circle, but that’s it. And I didn’t do anything different than when I knit a garter stitch on regular needles.
heh - I can only perl
LOL If we teach each other, we’ll both have an almost complete set of skills.
Stayed up way too late watching Adult Swim last night. Need to start a-schedulin’ for the next few months.
Looks like a thunderboomer coming in. Huzzah!
Have fun campin’ Soapy! I told the Vermont bears not to filch your food and stuff cause you’re a friend. Sometimes that works.
Rebo it’s up to 76 Amurrkin now. I knew it was gonna warm up quick. It’ll be mid to high 90s by early afternoon I’m sure. Still, 65 this mornin’ was AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH while it lasted.
We’re goin’ to the pool in a bit. I may decide on a nap first since I woke up early this mornin’. Pool or nap. Why must all my decisions be so hard!
ETA: BooFae I am so jealous of your zoo tour! I wanna feed giraffes and penguins and sea lions!
is that anything like “Cake or death?”?
Break time. It was hovering around 61 when I took the doggies out this morning, and it’s still gloriously cool and not humid and a little breezy - so the house is open and life is good.
On the way to breakfast and Lowe’s, we noticed a vibration in the van, plus it pulls to the right. Funny how it happened right after we got the tires rotated… So once we got home, we took it back to have it checked out - they say they’ll have it done today. If not, SIL will have to take my car to work again tomorrow.
We’re installing the new door downstairs - once we’re done with our little break, we’ll be making the spacers for the sides of the frame. Then we put down a big gloppin’ mess o’caulk under the sill, set the door in place, get it level and square, then bolt it in place. Only thing - we kinda forgot to get a passage set. :smack:
I’ll try to post some pics tonight - I haven’t shown off the new floor, and I can add the door now, too. Because I just know you’re living vicariously thru my construction experiences.
We are, FCM, really. Your advanced skills give me confidence that I’ll be able to take down my bifold doors to paint them. Even without an engineering degree. We’ll see how that goes. I need to finish understanding how all the parts fit together before I do that. But it’ll be a while before I get there (maybe a couple of weeks, even).
That zoo visit sounds awesome, BooFae. I LOVE giraffes, especially.
I’m taking a break, too. Finished re-cutting in the cornery parts of the room. now I need to cut in all the non-corners. I’m using one of those cutting pads and a brush, which goes a lot faster than with just a brush, although it gets a little bit drippy.
Back during the next break so that you can get the minimum daily requirement of DIY reports.
GT