Ethan’s Journey

Ferguson seemed stiff to me this morning. I put him on the heating pad and gave him a little massage. He does get arthritis medication and a joint supplement, but his muscles seemed stiff. After a bit on the heating pad I really concentrated on trying to loosen things up in his back. I love old animals so much. I hope someday if I am privileged enough to grow old, someone gives me a heating pad and a massage. At one point he looked like he was smiling. I think he enjoyed every second of it. His wonky eye is a result of him picking a couple battles with the rabbit (who weighed less than him) and the rabbit kicking his butt and beating him up.Ferguson will always be a tough guy in ONLY his own mind. We had our virtual Halloween Party. I used to be on the FUN committee, but I gave it up to some newer and fresher minded team mates. The party was fun with sharing our different ways to spend the holiday. We also had a freestyle pumpkin draw on Paint. My pumpkin didn’t win. We had two minutes...

I love that the fireplace is cleaned out. The dogs and I enjoyed the warmth of the house and fire. I had my bloodwork done today. I had a lipid panel done to see if I should be on a statin. I also opted into the genetic testing that looks for genetic links to see if I am predisposed to any hereditary conditions. Awareness is half the battle.  The blood draw lady was very smooth with her needle. Barely felt it. She was quick and it was quite easy. Avery and I met for dinner. We chatted about stuff. She shared she has been cranky so we had a good chat laughing and joking about life’s annoyances. We FINALLY figured out what the weird noise was that we were hearing. For months, this noise appeared. My bird app didn’t pick it up. Paul thought it could be a tree frog. It sounded metallic or almost like a force field. Paul crossed the road, trespassed and did some peeping. He committed acts of a peeping Paul.  Sounds creepy. Apparently our neighbors have coturnix quail. They are used...

Here is our bat’s “Weekend at Bernie’s” type situation. I propped him up on our flowers as our own Halloween decoration. I should make him tiny sunglasses or something. Who wouldn’t want their final resting place to be amongst beautiful flowers? It was so nice out today. I took the dogs for a walk at lunch. Moe and Penny were running around like the town idiots. They were having so much fun. Moe found some kind of poop to eat. 🤢🤮. Luckily he dropped it when I yelled at him. Jiminy kept up with me and he was also running as fast as his short legs would carry him. I also worked outside for a bit. I kept the dogs out with me, except Penny. She would close her yap flap and she ended up in the house for being the neighborhood gossip! Bark bark bark….spreading rumors like she would the flu. Paul cleaned out the inside of the fireplace. He started a fire. First one of the season. It was an exciting moments for the humans and pets. The dogs were so thankful to have their bed right near the f...

I talked to Avery on the phone while Ethan and Paul went to cars and coffee. Ethan was volunteering there and was running all around.  Today was bath day! All the pups got a bath. Tomorrow will be nails day. Paul and my uncle wrapped the camper in its winter blanket (camper cover). All tucked away until May. Ethan passed out on the couch for a while. Sundays seem to be the day his body waves the white flag. He naps. I did some more meal prep along with made two batches of cookies. Yum! I put them in the freezer so they last a bit longer. Paul finished his drainage project, as well as cleaned the chimney. In anticipation of winter, it was so nice out, I took my mini chainsaw out and cut up sticks. We have an abundance of sticks from all the trees around the yard. Paul piles them up. I cut them into small sizes to use as kindling. We are in good shape for kindling this year. ❤️  I was feeling a bit bad about just putting the dead bat in a pile of ashes. I moved him to one of our...

I started washing my windows today. I broke one. Not the glass itself, the mechanism that allows me to fold the window inward to clean the outside of the glass. That abruptly stopped that activity. I puttered, cleaned out a closet, rearranged and organized the space. Ethan seems in good spirits. He even helped me carry some things to rearrange and make room to organize things in our basement. It has become a fire hazard with all the kids things in “storage”. Paul was busy with the trench digger he rented. He was having a grand time digging, putting pipe in the ground and getting out the tractor to fill in the dirt.  He was absolutely filthy when he came in the house. Like Pigpen from the Peanuts cartoon. He stripped and showered immediately. Ethan had us watching a show with ghost hunters exploring a haunted asylum in Pennsylvania. The people were very animated. By the end I was overwhelmed by the amount of words they said, volume of their voices and I needed to retreat to silence....

Ethan put in his 2 week notice of resignation at his current position. He is starting with a company that works with Tritium and helps create ways to store it.  Ethan will be doing specialized welding. This is the second kid in this house to be working with Tritium. This is what Avery was doing her research on this past summer.  I have never even heard of it before this summer, with Avery’s research project.  Ethan is pretty excited for the opportunity. It sort of presented itself to him. Someone he used to work with, his father works for this company. The previous coworker shared Ethan’s information with his dad. Networking at its finest. Ethan was supposed to tell his manager about his resignation. He was nervous. I shared with him how nervous I had been about doing so throughout my career. It’s never fun. Even the one job I was so relieved to leave was difficult. Paul is preparing for many projects this weekend. His goals are to do some trenching/ drainage control. He ...