Summer

Summer is passing by...all too quickly.  The 4th of July is next week.  That always signified the middle of summer to me.  The funny thing is that it doesn't feel like summer to me.  The highs have barely been in the 70s here.  This is not summer to me.  Summer is feeling like you are baking when you sit outside.  I know that sounds like it should be miserable but sit outside in that heat with a glass of iced tea and it is a wonderful thing!  I miss that heat. 

Exclamation points

I think I might be addicted to exclamation points.  Is that a bad thing?  I find that a period just doesn't convey the sense of excitement that I want to convey in the written word.  But can you overuse them?  Is everything worthy of an exclamation point??

I am not a smiley face, emoticon person really.  But I do love exclamation points!!

Experiencing New Adventures

Yesterday hubby and I drove 100 miles and visited the Professional Football Hall of Fame.  I care nothing about sports but I married a man that is RABID about them.  So I have learned to watch sports.  Yesterday I had fun watching him!  He was like a kid in a candy store.  He smiled for 2 hours non-stop while we went through the exhibits. 

Emmitt Smith's HOF inaugural photo.

We looked at all the exhibits - Griff explained the significance of some of them to me.  The photo below is the Vince Lombardi trophy - given when you win the Superbowl.

We will plan a trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next.  

Dog update

Just a quick update - Jake is doing awesome!  His tumor swelled and he apparently decided to handle surgery on it himself.  So, the tumor is now gone, the skin is almost fully healed and he is feeling great.  So, no major surgery looms in his future. 

Thanks for all the concern and well wishes.  I love that my family and friends know me well enough to understand how much emotional upheaval I was going through when he was ill.  Thank you all for caring!

Here comes the sun!

I am amused to look back at my blog and see how many of the posts contain info on the weather.  Having been a southerner all my life, I had no idea how much I took the sun and warm weather for granted.  It is almost reason for celebration when spring gets here and we start seeing more of the sun here in Ohio.  This past Friday half our department did not come to work - that's how excited people get to see the sun!  And I completely understood and was jealous that I wasn't home with hubby and pups. 

But, the sun has shown it's face around here now.  So, things are looking up - as Dad would say. 

When is Spring Coming??

This has been a pretty quiet weekend so far.  I haven't been out of the house at all.  I want to go outside but it has been raining all day.  Hubby tells me this evening that we also had a 'dusting' of snow.  Dusting or not, I am sick of snow!  I am ready for sunshine and days spent planting flowers and watching my pups play in the yard.  Come on Spring!!

Self expression

As you probably know by now, I am a HUGE dog lover.  So much so that I have way too many dogs.  One of them is injured this week.  Jake has a lump on his back that has been there for years.  Every time we have him in for his annual shots they tell us it is nothing to worry about. 

This week it grew to probably 4 times its normal size and he has been in a lot of pain.  So hubby took him to the vet and had him examined.  The vet said that he has a tumor and we won't know what it is until we have it surgically removed.  So, we will have surgery on our baby and see what happens.  This brings lots of angst to me because these dogs are my children.  I talk to them, sing songs to them, make up songs for them, etc.  Stay tune for how I handle this as we go along.

But today's story is about a comical side effect of this current injured dog.  Because Jake is injured, I have been sleeping in the guest room with him to ensure that he doesn't get more hurt during the night.  The other dogs have remained in the master bedroom with hubby. 

When Jake was 2 years old, my family convinced me that we needed to get him a playmate.  So, we acquired another dashchund, Roxy.  For 9 years now Roxy has been Jake's 'girlfriend'.  If you ask Jake where his girlfriend is, he immediately goes and finds Roxy.  If Jake is growling at the other dogs and Roxy walks up, he immediately stops growling.  They are dog lifemates. 

So, to get to the point of this story...Roxy got upset with me last night because I had been taking her boyfriend away from her the last couple of nights.  She did everything she could to sleep with Jake and I last night.  But I wouldn't let her.  End of story, right? 

It is never the end of the story around here.  This morning I got up and took all the dogs out to potty.  I got coffee and went up to take a shower.  After I showered, I went back to the guest room to put my makeup on.  When I moved the covers back, a dog had peed on the bed.  Roxy was the only dog that wasn't in the room with me.  I called her in and asked her, 'Roxy, did you pee on my bed?' she wagged her tail and ran into the room.  I interpreted that to mean, 'why yes I did'. 

She continues to punish me this evening.  She jumps on the couch, wants me to raise the covers on the couch and she lays down.  Then she jumps down again.  Then she repeats this over and over and over and OVER!  We'll see what happens when bedtime comes tonight. 

How do you express yourself when you are unhappy with the situation?  Are you straightforward and address things head on or do you wait until someone leaves the room and pee where they sleep?  I hope that I am one that takes things head on.  But it gives me something to think about.