Friday, April 27th, 2018…… The mornings are now becoming a
routine. We have Rylee cordoned off in
my room and part of the hall. She’s been
good about getting ‘gated’ each night.
Not much whining at all. I go get her, usually around 6:45 – 7:00am and
she follows me to the back door. I let
her out and she does her business. By then Lydia is awake and gets a visitor
who comes looking for her. I get my shower and I get going for the day, then
Lydia can go get her shower and ready. But today we had no plans. We did get
our rain today. Not too much but I
didn’t want to do much outside. Tim
& Dana did come by. They unloaded
the trailer with the subsiding on it and took it to go get the siding. They
just cleaned up the site today. She said they would let me know when the roof
trusses would be delivered. Funny, a few days ago I swear I heard her say that
it would be Monday. Later, after they
left for the day, she texted that the delivery is 1-2pm on Wednesday. I guess
we’re back to Oregon time! But she was
pressing me the last few days wanting their next progress payment asap. It’s in
work but I wasn’t in any hurry. Hey, I’m
on Oregon time now too!
Rylee continues
to surprise us each day. She is getting comfortable with the routine of going
to the back door and if the slider is open, she heads out through the doggie
door (in the screen) with no problems.
She’s a little skittish out there from the work site because of the
compressor and the nail gun noise but when they are gone, she does well. Our
vet told us to start taking her on car rides so she’s used to them. We’re planning on going to the Tulip Festival
in Woodburn tomorrow and we’ll take her there. Just can’t let her run around as
much as we’d like (due to the parvo risk) but the ride will be good for her.
Saturday, April 28th, 2018…… We
got up early this morning and got some chores done. Last night neither of us
took super pooper outside before we went to bed and we paid that price the next
morning! We cleaned up in more than one
spot. We had talked about it before and now have decided that, starting tonight, we would put her in her
crate in my room at night. But this
morning we had plans. We packed up monster puppy and headed out. First stop was McDonald's and then
Walgreens. Then we went and picked up
Penny and headed north (about 45 miles) to Woodburn. We wanted to go see the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival.
Tulips do well up here and the season is now. This is a private tulip farm,
with hundreds of acres of tulips, which get harvested and sold all around the
country. Every year they open up the fields for visitors for the month-long festival.
This year, due to the crowds, they will
stay open one more week, into May. Admission is $5.00 per person. We found out dogs were welcome on leash so we
wanted to bring Rylee. Our vet said to
take her out for car rides. Well this
was a nice car ride and a nice little walk for her. I was a little leery
because there were so many dogs there today.
They had a ‘dog run’ where you run a course through the fields with your
dog! We weren't doing that but we got a trailer ride out to the fields and I kept her in my arms most
of the time and only let her down a few times to burn off some of her
energy. She sure was a hit with all the
folks there. They kept coming up to us like she was a magnet. Everyone wanted to pet her. There was an employee dressed in a cow suit
with toys and they became quick friends! She even came out of character to thank
me for letting them play.
We did a lap
around only a small portion of the fields of tulips. They had hundreds of different colors and
even different sizes! It was very
nice.
We worked our
way back to the entrance, bypassing all of the kiddie booths and the food
vendors and made our way out to the car and I fed and watered our tired puppy.
We left for the drive home and Rylee did well and slept most of the way. It was
a fun day and we got real lucky with the weather because it started to rain on
us as we got down the road a bit. We
dropped sis off and came home to let the adults rest and have lunch after our fun adventure.
Later, I did
some raking of the mowed grass in the front yard before the rains got to us
again. We had eaten lunch later than usual so neither of us wanted dinner. I did make one leftover steak burrito as my light
meal. Lydia had some ruffles and a small salad. I guess that could be called dinner! After that, we played with Rylee off and on
until bedtime. Yes – we took her out! We
must have pooped her out because she quieted down pretty quickly and barely
protested when we closed her crate door for the night.
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