Treasure is just fine! I'm crazy about the vets at this place--I took her to a different, bigger vet here in Platts. and they were truly wonderful. She's doing very well. She still had a cough when I picked her up on Thursday afternoon and was a bit weak, but now she's pretty much back to normal. A slight hack now & then but she ran and ran this morning so I guess she's feeling pretty perky. She goes tomorrow for a follow-up visit, testing her clotting factor, which I expect will be just fine. YAY! Really, YAY! She's basking in the attention and affection she's been getting all week. Who learned anything from this? ME!!! Not Treasure, I'm sure. I'll never go near D-Con again.
Busy, busy time at the lake. Too many people, too many activities. I had 2 things last night, said no to all so I could visit with P&J. More invites for tonight but I have a late meeting here in Pbg so have said no to all again. I must be getting old, I used to try to make every social engagement but now feel OK saying no, I can't do it.
Have seen Duncan & Sue quite a bit, which has been great. They're going home today but will be back in Sept. for the month. Sue was at book group on Sunday. It was a funny time, just 4 of us (Sue, Lin, Linda, me). Pretty quiet but we did discuss the book quite a bit. We needed Marylou.
The lake has been quite populated with boats this week, more than the weeks around the 4th. I was on the dock on Sunday and it wasn't busy until late afternoon, then all hell broke loose. Saturday I went to the dump, then Fred came for a visit, followed by Bill & the PINS. The PINS moved old wood into the wood shed and stacked some of the new wood, then mowed the lawn (!). Nice, nice. I went to Big Daddy's with Fred for a snack before dinner with Duncan & Sue Sat. night.
Friday night Linda put on a Paella Party with great success. She's amazingly talented, and made paella over an open fire. It was delicious and we all had good visits and ate well. yum.
Molly flies to Boston, then RI today and will be here on Saturday. I'll go to Vt. to meet her train, then she'll be here for a week. It will be so nice to spend the time with her, though I have to work during the week. We have our family meeting on the 2nd, then Sunday dinner on the 3rd and off to RI the 4th or 5th for my 2 week vacation. Oh boy it's busy.
Sunday dinner is in the evening this weekend, at Bill's. Theme=Thanksgiving and I have to make a vegetable dish. The group had expanded to around 15 but is down a couple now. Big group.
All is well in Hawkeye. I need to get firewood for camp, have it delivered next week when the place will be full of people to stack it. I also need to get the water going--chronic problems with the prime-losing pump.
It never ends.
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
July is going fast
I don't think summers usually fly by at this rate. This year it just seems as if there's not enough time to enjoy it. I have had my dock days, a few, and have seen plenty of summer people, but it just seems strange to have August breathing down my neck right now.
It's been an eventful time since I wrote anything, but the most pressing event is the trouble I have with my dog Treasure. Last week she ate D-Con that I didn't realize was in the car, and this week she's close to death from it. It's an anti-coagulant, so her chest filled with blood. I took her to a new vet, one with good emergency services, and she has been there since yesterday. I spoke to the vet this morning and Treasure lived through the night but there's still too much blood in her chest and she's having trouble breathing. They gave her a blood transfusion and massive doses of Vitamin K. At least she's still alive--I'm trying not to count on anything but now am cautiously hopeful. I feel terribly guilty, for keeping the poison where she could get to it, for not making her throw up when I realized she'd eaten it, for not taking her to the vet sooner--you name it, I feel guilty. I didn't realize it took a week for the poison to work so I thought she was in the clear. Well hopefully this will just be a learning experience and not a tragedy. Tess is mystified by Treasure's absence and just stares at me. She wants to go everywhere I go, more than usual. Anyway, I've found a good vet and I really like her so I may switch, after nearly 30 years with my other one.
I had nice visits with Duncan and Sue, dinner and random visits. We had dessert with the Camerons one night. The Camerons invited me for dessert another night but I just felt like being in the boat house by myself. Which didn't happen because my cousin came over and wanted to stay a long time. Well what can you do. Last night I was hysterical and in no shape to see anyone so I stayed home and didn't answer the phone.
Tonight I'll visit the same cousin because (I can't believe I did this) I offered to take care of her schnauzer while she goes to a funeral in NJ. What is wrong with me? She'd found a motel that would take the dog, but no, that wasn't good enough, I had to stick my nose in the whole thing and now I'm stuck with the dog for the weekend. Honestly I wonder about myself.
We had Sunday dinner last weekend at J&M's, which was nice. Too much food but it was all delicious. Next up is Bill, next weekend with a Thanksgiving theme. My sister will be here then (YAY) so I'm hoping she can join us. I have to take an appropriate vegetable dish.
Yes, Molly comes next weekend, taking the train from RI to Vt. All very cool. I have some things to get done in the boat house before she arrives but there are other things I need her help with. One more coat of paint on the counters, that shouldn't take long and it's supposed to be sunny and dry this weekend. It's been so humid that I hated to paint because I hate sticky, tacky surfaces.
I've stayed in the boat house a bit, when it's hot at night. Saturday I spent the day down there, reading on the dock and on the porch. The lake was really, really quiet during the day--that was a bonus, but at dinner time everyone with a boat decided to cruise by s l o w l y and look at each camp very carefully. Oh people, really, is that necessary?
I'm reading a new book, Friendship, by Emily Gould. It's quite nice. I have a mountain of books to read but am hoarding them for my August vacation. I've been listening to books a lot but none seem to be memorable. It's noise, just noise.
It's been an eventful time since I wrote anything, but the most pressing event is the trouble I have with my dog Treasure. Last week she ate D-Con that I didn't realize was in the car, and this week she's close to death from it. It's an anti-coagulant, so her chest filled with blood. I took her to a new vet, one with good emergency services, and she has been there since yesterday. I spoke to the vet this morning and Treasure lived through the night but there's still too much blood in her chest and she's having trouble breathing. They gave her a blood transfusion and massive doses of Vitamin K. At least she's still alive--I'm trying not to count on anything but now am cautiously hopeful. I feel terribly guilty, for keeping the poison where she could get to it, for not making her throw up when I realized she'd eaten it, for not taking her to the vet sooner--you name it, I feel guilty. I didn't realize it took a week for the poison to work so I thought she was in the clear. Well hopefully this will just be a learning experience and not a tragedy. Tess is mystified by Treasure's absence and just stares at me. She wants to go everywhere I go, more than usual. Anyway, I've found a good vet and I really like her so I may switch, after nearly 30 years with my other one.
I had nice visits with Duncan and Sue, dinner and random visits. We had dessert with the Camerons one night. The Camerons invited me for dessert another night but I just felt like being in the boat house by myself. Which didn't happen because my cousin came over and wanted to stay a long time. Well what can you do. Last night I was hysterical and in no shape to see anyone so I stayed home and didn't answer the phone.
Tonight I'll visit the same cousin because (I can't believe I did this) I offered to take care of her schnauzer while she goes to a funeral in NJ. What is wrong with me? She'd found a motel that would take the dog, but no, that wasn't good enough, I had to stick my nose in the whole thing and now I'm stuck with the dog for the weekend. Honestly I wonder about myself.
We had Sunday dinner last weekend at J&M's, which was nice. Too much food but it was all delicious. Next up is Bill, next weekend with a Thanksgiving theme. My sister will be here then (YAY) so I'm hoping she can join us. I have to take an appropriate vegetable dish.
Yes, Molly comes next weekend, taking the train from RI to Vt. All very cool. I have some things to get done in the boat house before she arrives but there are other things I need her help with. One more coat of paint on the counters, that shouldn't take long and it's supposed to be sunny and dry this weekend. It's been so humid that I hated to paint because I hate sticky, tacky surfaces.
I've stayed in the boat house a bit, when it's hot at night. Saturday I spent the day down there, reading on the dock and on the porch. The lake was really, really quiet during the day--that was a bonus, but at dinner time everyone with a boat decided to cruise by s l o w l y and look at each camp very carefully. Oh people, really, is that necessary?
I'm reading a new book, Friendship, by Emily Gould. It's quite nice. I have a mountain of books to read but am hoarding them for my August vacation. I've been listening to books a lot but none seem to be memorable. It's noise, just noise.
Thursday, July 03, 2014
Hot, so very hot
It's been hot all week, I guess this is our annual heat wave. I doesn't usually happen this early, mostly it comes later in July. But by has it been hot! 80's and 90's, with very high humidity and 70's at night. I've stayed in the boat house most nights. It's much cooler there but is still warm. I swam last night, briefly, because I kept dozing at 7:00 and wanted to stay awake AT LEAST until 8. duh. The water is lovely, not too cold but getting warmer.
Busy weekend ahead--tonight I'll stop briefly at Linda's, then it's on to get the dogs and go to camp. Jenica, Justin et al. are coming this afternoon so I'll have dinner with them. YAY. Justin is planning to do some work in the boat house (some welcome work) so they'll be here for a couple of days. Meanwhile I'll check out the cabin that's on the lake to see if anyone's using it, or maybe I'll just stay at home and maybe do some chores. I really need to mow--it's just too hot to do it now but I think it will be cooler this weekend.
Someone keeps peeing on the floor at home and I still haven't washed the floors so that's another "on my list" item. It's too humid for that now but should be better soon. I'll doubtless put in an appearance at the dump--I found out that Dump Man's name is Bob, so I'll see Bob on Sat.
Busy week, lots of good visits with people. Saw Rush, Annie, Duncan and David for dinner one night. Saw cousins a couple of other nights and Joe & Martha once. Stopped at P&J's last night for a quick visit, skipped my usual Tuesday visit to see Duncan & David before David left yesterday.
The lake has been busy with jet-skis and boats. Many jet-skis. This is the busiest week of the season so it's no surprise but HONESTLY, do jet-skis have to go round and round and round in front of camps? And what's up with kayakers who go so close to our dock that they could touch it, at 8:00 at night? Really? There was one fisherboy who was convinced the biggest fish in the lake were near the boat house, and he parked himself in his canoe in front of our other cabins each night at the beginning of the week. While I sat on the porch, near enough to hear him casting and reeling in...rock bass, just rock bass. I think he gave up, though because he wasn't there last night. Uh-oh, I may have spoken too soon.
Work has been busy--my co-worker took a couple of days off so I've been busy doing interlibrary loan. Bless those cute little inmates, they just like to read sooooo much. We've reached the point where we do more ILL for inmates than we do for patrons of our member libraries, which is not a good thing.
Dogs are fine. Treasure is convinced each morning that there's something worth investigating/eating on the back porch at camp so she shuts herself in there at 6 a.m. I suppose I don't discourage this because I rescue her each time. Well who's the dumb one here?
Busy weekend ahead--tonight I'll stop briefly at Linda's, then it's on to get the dogs and go to camp. Jenica, Justin et al. are coming this afternoon so I'll have dinner with them. YAY. Justin is planning to do some work in the boat house (some welcome work) so they'll be here for a couple of days. Meanwhile I'll check out the cabin that's on the lake to see if anyone's using it, or maybe I'll just stay at home and maybe do some chores. I really need to mow--it's just too hot to do it now but I think it will be cooler this weekend.
Someone keeps peeing on the floor at home and I still haven't washed the floors so that's another "on my list" item. It's too humid for that now but should be better soon. I'll doubtless put in an appearance at the dump--I found out that Dump Man's name is Bob, so I'll see Bob on Sat.
Busy week, lots of good visits with people. Saw Rush, Annie, Duncan and David for dinner one night. Saw cousins a couple of other nights and Joe & Martha once. Stopped at P&J's last night for a quick visit, skipped my usual Tuesday visit to see Duncan & David before David left yesterday.
The lake has been busy with jet-skis and boats. Many jet-skis. This is the busiest week of the season so it's no surprise but HONESTLY, do jet-skis have to go round and round and round in front of camps? And what's up with kayakers who go so close to our dock that they could touch it, at 8:00 at night? Really? There was one fisherboy who was convinced the biggest fish in the lake were near the boat house, and he parked himself in his canoe in front of our other cabins each night at the beginning of the week. While I sat on the porch, near enough to hear him casting and reeling in...rock bass, just rock bass. I think he gave up, though because he wasn't there last night. Uh-oh, I may have spoken too soon.
Work has been busy--my co-worker took a couple of days off so I've been busy doing interlibrary loan. Bless those cute little inmates, they just like to read sooooo much. We've reached the point where we do more ILL for inmates than we do for patrons of our member libraries, which is not a good thing.
Dogs are fine. Treasure is convinced each morning that there's something worth investigating/eating on the back porch at camp so she shuts herself in there at 6 a.m. I suppose I don't discourage this because I rescue her each time. Well who's the dumb one here?
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