Chief Delphi - What are everyones summer plans?

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Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Heidi,

You are quite talented. Those pictures are amazing! I especially like the tiff. If you are furthering your education in photography, it is a good idea, as you obviously have a great eye. A friend of mine is the best photographer at the local newspaper (Kokomo Tribune), and he loves what he does.

Thank you, Andy. I love photography, and maybe one day I’ll actually take a class dealing with it, but at this point, I’m declaring English as my major.

And to mention the topic of the thread, I forgot to mention one of my unfortunate summer plans… two weeks of dog-sitting. For two geriatric dogs. We cannot have the dogs at our place because the little dog, Prissy, is a barker, plus she gets into things, and because the big dog, Rudy, does not do well on stairs and our condo is on the second floor. Did I mention that these dogs are old? Prissy occasionally has seizures. And Rudy has a problem with his larynx that is worse when it’s hot and/or humid, and he wheezes something fierce when he walks. Rudy is a dominant dog, who likes to dominate other dogs and even people he does not know, even though he’s been neutered for 7 years. In his old age, he has forgotten he knows me, so he tries it on me too and since he’s mostly deaf, he doesn’t respond to “Down, Rudy! Sit!” anymore. Sigh. Oh, did I mention that the dogs, like their owners, are both vegan? It is no simple matter of going over and putting down food, not at all. Rudy gets a cup and a half of vegan kibble, and then you have to mix in a teaspoon of some green powder (alfalfa powder?) and a quarter of a cup of soy milk (but make sure that the soy milk isn’t too cold), throw in half of a vitamin pill and half of a thyroid pill. Prissy gets a quarter of a cup of vegan kibble with a couple of spoonfuls of wet (vegan) dog food (warm up in microwave first), some green powder, some kind of a citrus powder (in the morning only), half of a vitamin. Oh, and every other meal or so, mix in a spoon of olive oil to both bowls to give the dogs some extra vegan fat.

And to get to the real crux of the situation: the dog mess. When first told we were dog sitting, I told Eric that he would be the one bagging up the left behinds, that if I had to go over to the house by myself, they were not getting walked but would have to use the back yard (the back yard is huge). Well, we have been informed that in his advanced age, Rudy has started the habit of eating what he just recycled, so now that is supposed to be picked up immediately. Now, if it were just the yard being cleaned once a week, I could do it, no problem. But coming straight from the factory itself, still warm and odoriferous, forget it, no way, uh-uh… Sigh. I think I'll just keep thinking happy thoughts about IRI, maybe then it won't seem so bad...

Heidi