July 10, 2025
July 10, 2025
Happy Birthmonth!
I love you. I miss you.
Thursday. Yeah. I took Crystal to be spayed. I haven't been able to get to bed at a humane hour. 3 am. Why? So, the drive over was a hazard.
I keep thinking about how you used to read while you drove. Which is a riot. I don't recall seeing you do that, and I don't recall what you read. Did you ever say?
I was thinking the other night; I should ask... Mom, I should ask Mom about that... yeah. right. Why did you have to die?
So... after dropping Crystal off at the vet's, I spent $11 at dollar general on some candy and cans of Iced Coffee. I then visited the feral dogs at the rescue, spent a little time w them. Scarlet had climbed out of the 6+ foot tall, covered in a canopy - kennel and so is now in one of the pro-model dog runs w two young female dogs. Young dogs are so wriggly.
Honestly, Im impressed. I wonder if it was the fireworks that inspired her escape.
After i got home & fed my dogs, I put a basket of eggs in the car, backed out, and the basket fell over, spilling and breaking many of the eggs. Bummer. I backed back in, grabbed some more eggs....
Deb's got a spiffy generator now. 26 kW, and a propane tank to power it. I dreamt that I had bought a property with a solar power system. She indicated the generator was $1000, and the installation was 3 times that.
Wait... maybe it wasn't the fireworks... smh... I'm kinda confused. This is July 10th... sigh.
Aria escaped so often, I resorted to stringing a hot wire across the top and bottom of the yard in the trailer part. The only place she *did't* ever escape from was Keith's place. Even then, when I once took Riker on a walk with him and Bailey; Aria opened my bedroom window and got stuck out on the ledge over the garage. That was scary.
Later, when I moved Snowy over to Julie's place, Riker saw us leave and he did the same thing. Kieth was able to get him back in; which I was very grateful for. I was probably too shocked to express the fears and all when he told me about it.
It was in his driveway that some brat shot out the back window of my camper shell. That pissed me off. It didn't all break apart at once, it just gradually shattered and fell piece by piece.
And there was the time Bailey left a bike or other riding toy behind my truck. I told her to never do that. She yelled at me "I'm only going to be a minute!" - as I was getting in my truck, ready to leave!!
When I got back, I talked to her. She got upset I was calling her 6 yo self out for doing something she wasn't supposed to. Keith got upset she had yelled and was rude to me.
I, on the other hand, was upset she had no idea how dangerous and deadly what she had done was. This was 2006, and back up cameras and sensors were not standard, not by any stretch
If I hadn't seen her drop the scooter there, I would not have known. Running over and damaging a toy was only a small bit of my concern. If she had been bending down to pick it up?
When I confronted her, she tried to sass and run away... lol. I grabbed either her shoulder or her sleeve, saying "oh, no you don't!" So we kinda had it out right in front of her father. I wasn't angry and I didn't yell. I was stern. That stuff is serious.
Ah, the days of free range kids!
Happy Birthmonth
I love you
I miss you
The days so far
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