Saturday, February 26, 2011

Out of the House Saturday

Today I went to the post office, the bank (drive-thru), and Walmart.   A woman in the next drive-thru lane at the bank was taking a long time, she was on her cell phone.  I was looking toward the bank, not at her, but she closed the cell phone and drove away giving me a dirty look.  I’m sure the car behind her was glad she finally moved on.

Then I came home, put away most of the groceries and took a nap.  The dogs took a nap, too.  They are so used to my being here all the time that they get stressed when I am gone.  That makes them tired. 

They got their ears worked on this evening.  It amounts to squirting liquid in their ears and massaging the base of their ears for a minute or two, then letting them shake their heads to get the liquid out. 

I used to buy this liquid from the vet at about $10. a bottle.  This last time I was at the vet’s I introduced Bandit who is a foster dog.  The vet took pity on me and told me the liquid was 50% water and 50% vinegar. 

This ear cleaning process upsets Bandit a lot.  He runs around the back yard shaking his head then comes in the house and runs around like a wild dog.  I am told this is called the “Bassett 500”.

It just so happened that Lory and John were painting in the bathroom when he came in.  He kept taking a detour in there while he ran.  We finally had to close the door until he settled down.

My sense of smell isn’t dead.  I can smell the paint now and then.

The ceiling is done and tomorrow the walls will be done.  I’ll try to get a picture of the finished product.  It was painted before in 2002.  There is only one other room that has been painted since I moved here in 2002.

I’m not much of a decorator.  If there is a nail on the wall I’ll hang something on it but that’s about it.

Tomorrow will be a “take the Dexamethasone” day in preparation for chemo on Monday.

later….

 

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