A busy weekend indeed

Since leaving work Friday, I’ve been extraordinarily busy.

The Wife and I had friends over Friday night before they had an early-morning flight on Saturday. We live very near the airport so it makes sense for them to stay here where airport access is easy as they live about an hour from the airport. We’re also watching their dog, who is an adolescent Labrador Retriever. Abby is cute, cute, cute! But she’s also packed with more energy than The Wife, I, and all four critters put together. So we’ve had our hands full with this guest critter.

Saturday almost the entire day was spent shopping for cars. We think we’ve found a good second vehicle, an older SUV with lots of room for cargo and critters. Now it’s a matter of lining up the right financing.

Last night, Abby tripped me up while I was refilling the critters’ water dish, and I spilled water all over Jordan The Pest. There are few things so forlorn to look at as a soaking-wet cat. She is already quite afraid of Abby the Hyperactive Labrador Puppy, and getting water spilled all over her made it even worse for the poor little beast. You should have heard this little creature hiss!

Today was spent caring for the critters, working in the kitchen, cleaning, working in the kitchen again, caring for the critters some more, teaching my class online, going to Wally-World, and then hooking up the replacement DVD player (for the one that burned out during last week’s lightning storm). This took me from the time I woke up until after nine. All I really wanted to do, almost all day, was sit down and veg out playing a computer game. But that was not to be; I only half-watched the Netflix that The Wife wanted to watch so I think she was a little disappointed with that. But the fact was, I was still kind of bitter about not having the new DVD player hook up correctly for a long time — not until I completely disregard the instructions was I able to get the sound and video working.

So now it’s getting close to bedtime, and I still have to control the doggies, all of whom are much more rowdy than they usually would be. The dogs are fun, but having such active dogs is exhausting. And I’m concerned about a cut on Sassafras’ mouth that does not seem to be healing. The dogs wrestle and play, and sometimes they will get cut so when I first saw it, I didn’t think much of it. But it’s been more than a week and today it looked worse than ever. The Wife was right about this issue a long time before me — I’ve got to take some time this week to take her to the vet this week and figure out what needs to be done to heal my beloved dog.

And, to add some delicious country gravy to the mix, I’m off antihistamines for ten days. I have an appointment to see an allergist in a week and a half and taking any medications to relieve the symptoms will interfere with the diagnosis. So I’ve got ten days of sneezes, runny noses, inhibited smell, and watery, itchy eyes to look forward to — even on those days I’m not cutting the grass.