Tumbling through Tuesday

 

Tuesday morning started with me oversleeping.  I didn't wake up until nearly 6 a.m.  The household has been about an hour behind all day ever since.  

I was glad that I had waved off the personal trainer session when I had my driver's license renewal scheduled for Tuesday morning.  I'm just too wiped out to do more than I'm doing minute by minute today.

Since we started the day late, and I had my oatmeal on the regular schedule, Ember was not ready to go down for her nap yet.  We went for a neighborhood leash walk, and then she went down for her nap at 9, rather than 8.

I got into the car to drive over to pick up dog food, and my phone rang.  It was the Thrasher guys.  They had a cancellation, could they come this morning instead?  So, shuffle the plans.

The gentleman came, looked at Ember's excavation, and pronounced that given how they had installed those pillars it was in no danger of collapse. He had the records of what they had done, with a concrete bottom layer, topped by crushed rock, and then that square metal platform before those solid pillars.  He showed me how it was supporting well.  Ember had dug down to where we could see the metal platform.

His recommendation for correcting the dog's efforts was to keep filling it in with topsoil and tamping it down, each time she re-digs it.  Cost to me?   $0 for the assessment.  $2.99 a bag for a few bags of topsoil.  That takes the October 14th appointment off my calendar, too.

I picked up topsoil, the dog food, and a replacement toy for the turquoise unicorn that was destroyed during the two-dog weekend.  This one is a cow, I think.  I also got her a beef center bone, as that was one of the things she really liked during the dog swap day, over at Carl's house.

Ember gnawed on that bone for an hour!  

Then while I was getting ready to go outside, she disappeared and was very, very quiet.  Suspicious, I checked the basement:  the laundry room door was open!  My mistake. I must have left it open when I escorted the cat out during puppy nap #1.  Ember had snarfed all the cat's dry food and was not going to leave the laundry room.

I put a leash on her.  She resisted.  Tossed treats to "search" into the big room... she was still surfing the carpet under the dryer for leftover cat kibble.  I ended up having to go get cheese out of the fridge and run away to entice her to chase me. That got her moved beyond the laundry room door.  I reached back and closed it behind me.

I fed her "salad", then observed that she was getting sleepy.  Sure enough, we were about an hour late starting puppy nap #2, at about 1 p.m.  I came upstairs to write this blog, and then I intend to close my eyes again for a while.

Meanwhile, across town

Got a text from my DIL... they will be signing papers tonight.  They are accepting placement of Kam, the little boy they provided respite for last week, and a prior weekend, the one who joined us for family dinner.  We're all thrilled!  The stability of my son and his wife on a regular basis, hopefully for at least several months should be good for this child.  I hope the new foster parents are ready for this!  It's pretty for-real, and parenting is always a work in progress, as those of us who have been through it know.

Life is good.  Keep Sparking!