Wednesday, September 26th, 2018…... Rylee has
been in trouble lately. The other day she was off leash and took off to
investigate the freshly mowed field. No worries about that but the problems
start when I want her to ‘return’. She just buries her nose in the ground and
ignores me. I had to go out with the leash and drag her back to the house. We
had been tying her up on a long rope when she’s out in the yard but I thought
I’d give her some slack. Well, now she’s back on the rope again! Another
problem we have is the doggie door. The weather is really nice right now and
the slider to the back porch is open, giving her access to the door in the
screen. If we don’t put a chair in front of it when we don’t want her going
out, she escapes and goes exploring. Well, sometimes we forget the chair, and this afternoon
she made it out and then headed for the front yard ‘ditch’ out by the street.
There is water in there right now (overflow from the sprinklers) so she romped
through it and turned it to mud and came back in before we even knew she was
out!
Needless to say, she got hosed down before she was
allowed back in. Bad dog!
Today I did a few small errands around the house
and at my sister’s. Then it was just hanging around. I did have to run the
vacuum and mop the wood floors to clean up the mud prints but it was still a
quiet day.
Thursday,
September 27th, 2018…... Rylee has really been good about
sleeping later. She sleeps on the bed for most of the night but gets down when
she gets too hot and wants to cool off by the slider. Plus, one of us can get
up, let her out for a bit, then feed her and then come back to bed. Of course,
she joins us but at least we get to relax for a few minutes longer! Once we do get up and moving, we make the bed
and she’s out of there for the day. Today, I walked her and then took off for
Albany and the Home Depot and Lowes. I was looking for a replacement screen for
the living room slider. That’s the one that has Rylee’s doggie door in it. The
screen was scratched and torn in one spot plus I installed the doggie door
where she could get through as a puppy. Well, she’s still a puppy but she’s 62
lbs. now (we took her to the vet to get her flea meds renewed and they weighed
her) and the door is too low for her. I found the pet screen I was looking for
and brought it home. I took the slider off and removed the screen. Problem was
the longest screen was 84” and our windows were bigger than that! So, I had to
take it back and look for a longer one. You can buy regular screen by the roll
up to 25’ but it was not pet screen. So, I came back home and went online to
Amazon and found some and ordered it. Meanwhile, I took the sliding screen off
the bedroom door and put it in the other spot so we can use it.
That
done, I was done for the day. We heard back from Tim and Dana today. They were
back in town and were going to come over to look at the concrete cracks I’m
experiencing. They volunteered to bring elk steaks to bbq. We set it up for tomorrow
since we are going to Brewfest on Saturday. We spent the rest of the evening
relaxing and watching tv until bedtime.
Friday, September 28th, 2018…... For some reason, we both woke up early
this morning. I didn’t have anything on the list for today so we just spent
time cleaning up the house a bit. We decided that since it was going to be warm
today, I would give Rylee a bath. I have a stool that I can take in our walk-in
shower and the spray head is on a flex line so I can reach her to wash and
rinse. She is now sparkling white again and smells a lot better than
yesterday! Later, we headed off to
Walmart to get some things for dinner tonight. My sister called and said she
was going to go get presale tickets for Brewfest. She had heard they were on
sale in town. We had heard nothing about presale and we were shocked to find
out that the vip tickets we bought last year at the gate were already sold out
as presale! No worries, we didn’t use
the vip seating last year and we both already have t-shirts and we can buy extra beer tokens as needed, so we’re good. It might even be a little cheaper all told.
Tim and Dana came over and brought the marinated elk steaks and
some cut-up fruit. Lydia made green beans and rice. I fired up the bbq and we
cooked the steaks. They were very tasty! While I was cooking, we had monster puppy
out loose and exploring the back yard. She looked up and spotted Ollie across
the street. Turns out he was out too and they were trying to get him in so they
could leave to go to the local high school football game. Well, Rylee saw that and the
chase was on! I turned over the bbq duty to Tim and headed off with my leash to
help out. We got Rylee with no problem and they coaxed Ollie into the car just to
get his leash on him to take him to the house. So, all was well and I got back
to the grill. Tim came up with a possible solution to my concrete issue.
Problem is there’s a 1-2” drop off from his new approach pad and my existing
blacktop. When the motorhome crossed
over it the first time, there was a hairline crack in the cement. I want that
addressed before the piece chunks off. As I said, he has a possible solution. I
asked him to think about it for a bit and get back to me and we can get it
going. They are busy but at least they will get it fixed. They also need to
contact the garage door installers. I am having issues with the smoothness of
the door opening and closing. It’s an adjustment so he will call them to
schedule.
After the meal we visited for a awhile and they headed home and we
relaxed and watched a few shows before calling it a night.
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