Dog Trouble

9:45
Written from home. I also realize, having started this sentence differently when I was thinking in terms of writing for the blog, that I actually do write very differently for Morning Pages. And I think I will continue to write as MP’s and the blog stuff will just be what it is.
So as I said, written from home. Because of issues with Tigger. I’m not entirely sure I want to write all the gruesome details, but I guess I’ll start and if I get sick of it I will stop (hurray for morning pages, unlike writing, say, a recommendation when I might very much want to give it up, but can’t). So dh and friend were at the farm, with Tigger. Nephew came up Thurs with his dog Molly and left her there while he went to his concert, and that apparently was ok, a few growls here and there, but ok. Then the rest of the gang arrived Friday night and things were still ok. Tigger and Boudah had their muzzles on. I think there were a few more growls and snarls, but with a muzzle on how much damage can a dog do? Then on Sat morning dh left to take friend to the airport. I had said to make sure b-i-l was ok with keeping an eye on Tigger (or if not, he should take him in the car) and that apparently was fine. So off they went, and when he got here a bit after noon, I was still finishing all my stuff and it took a while before I was ready to leave. And we had to figure out dd’s plans, since she had been invited to a friend’s cabin inVT, but they were at a funeral and it was unclear if they were leaving from there, or coming home and thus able to pick her up….very confusing. Ok, fine, eventually everything got settled and dh and I finally left around 2:30. We had to stop at the bank, the PO, the farm for corn and the Frostie for ice cream (I had an entire cone!). We finally arrived around 4:30 and the house was packed and Tigger was relegated to Mom’s sitting room. And several people said oh there was a big incident and b-i-l would tell us all about it. And he did. It involved Tigger snarling at Dove (I think she had a bone), b-i-l yelling at Tigger, Tigger snarling at b-i-l and kind of lunging at him, bil bringing Tigger into the living room, where a bit later when bil walked by Tigger snarled at him again. Bil then yelled at him again and Tigger lunged (for some reason) at another nephew who was lying on the couch. So everyone was justifiably horrified, and Tigger was relegated to the sitting room. What could I do? I had dh take him out to the car and told him that I would take Tigger home after the birthday supper. Of course dh decided he would also come home, so we decided to do that, just bail after supper. It is bad enough for me when the house is so full, way worse for hd and apparently not possible for Tigger. There were 4 other dogs there, all of whom know each other and have worked out their various hierarchies. I was not that terribly upset at the idea of leaving after supper (not feeling terribly sociable after all) but there was another slight problem, which was that supper, scheduled for 7, didn’t end up being actually ready until 8:30. Comes of b-i-l #2 being in charge I suppose. Everyone put on a pretty good face about it, but folks were getting a bit testy and dh didn’t even try. He just disappeared. When the food was finally ready I went to find him and could find neither him nor the car. I decided to totally not worry about it, to just eat supper and figure he would reappear, which he did. I think he went out to get something to eat. The dinner was: hot chicken wings (thank goodness they did save out a bit for me), spicy sweet potato fries and they were making some unspiced ones, but they got mixed in, corn on the cob, broccoli salad (raw broccoli) and another salad with tomatoes and a vinaigrette dressing. And chocolate cake for dessert. All, of course, very carefully planned to be gluten-free. I could eat the chicken (the special plain boring chicken, the corn, and this tasty dressing of mayo, sour cream and blue cheese. I might have stayed and had a tiny bit of cake, but what with all the cleaning up and no one being in much of a rush to eat cake, it was already 9:30 and I finally told ds#2 (the bday girl) that we had to go. With everyone there, things become very much a sister #1’s family world – all the dogs, the whole gluten free thing, all the talk seems to be about weddings. I didn’t think dn#2 would be quite so bad, but that’s all she does is look up wedding stuff now. Oh brother, dd#1 would have died.
So the result – I get to be home!!!! Yay!! I called our neighbor and told her she does not have to feed buns (save $15 right there), I already started another batt, I think later I will call my friend and maybe we can take the dogs for a walk; after yesterday Tigger could probably use something nice. The thing I really “should” probably I should say “must” do is start removing the insulation from the eves. That is going to be a nasty job and of course I should try to do as much of it as possible early in the day before it gets hot. Today I guess I’ll cut the 4th door (and I may have to enlarge the others which sucks because then I will need to buy new sheet rock to replace them instead of just using what I cut out) and get what I need for equipment. I need a good face mask and it would be great if I could get hold of a full body suit – a disposable one. Like what I used in Texas when I insulated a similar area while working for Lynn.
One other thing – I am out of oat bran so maybe I will have toast for breakfast, but I’m not so sure it will work out well (so to speak). I certainly did not feel great this morning after last night’s late supper.

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