TheBanyanTree: Window shopping for bike gear ='s stress relief.

[Barb Edlen]

I was hoping it would cause a chuckle or two. 😊

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> On Jun 3, 2016, at 4:40 PM, Kitty Park <mzzkitty at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I hope it is okay that I grinned while reading about your early morning.
> Not because you were in sh*t up to your ankles but because *I* wasn't.
> 
> I humor myself by having a lady come in to clean for me.  And more than
> once, as she's pulling out of the driveway, one of the cats comes in from
> outdoors and throws up on the just-vacuumed carpet.  Not nearly as
> distasteful as cleaning up after a Dane, but still aggravating in my little
> world.
> 
> Guess you'll be visiting the sheriff next week.  Something to look forward
> to!
> 
> 
> 
> Kitty
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> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Barb Edlen <mountainwhisper at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> My day began @ 3am, right after Jim left for work (of course 😬) with Dane
>> diarrhea. At least she missed the carpet and rugs (the first time 😱 ).
>> Willow, oh Willow. 🙃
>> 
>> Sooooooooo I gathered my wits and clean up gear around me and commenced to
>> mop the floors clean with hot Pine Sol water and plenty of Vicks under my
>> nose, candles lit, A/C on and a few strategic windows open. Good Lord
>> Almighty, what a gross mess. Bless her stupid heart for eating the dang
>> fermented grass clumps yesterday. Every mowing season we battle this with
>> the dogs. They consider them a delightful delicacy for some insane reason.
>> 😡☹️🙄😢
>> 
>> I dosed her with Imodium and Pepto Bismal tablets, which thankyoubabyJesus
>> work well for her.
>> 
>> Three hours later, finally in bed for a few blessed hours of sleep.
>> 
>> Then. We all wake up (I dose her again, because this ain't my first Dane
>> diarrhea rodeo) and I am enjoying sipping my coffee when the horror begins
>> yet again; only worse this time.
>> 
>> She went to get a drink of water and had another accident all over the
>> guest bathroom floor and the den carpet. You know, the BRAND NEW carpet
>> that she so helpfully test barfed on two days ago. 🙄  Why is it always the
>> new stuff that you naively hope can remain clean for oh, say, at least 6
>> freakin' months??????
>> 
>> I was shell shocked at that point. And already in so much pain from round
>> one. But, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Plus, Rambi would not stop walking
>> thru the mess, because God forbid, he be kept from his food for any length
>> of time. I could have gladly drop kicked him off the front deck.
>> Aaaaaaaaagggggg!!!!!!! But, I gently picked him up (the heavy tubbo -
>> because Jim kept over feeding the cats for several months 😩🤐) and shut
>> him in our bedroom.
>> 
>> Then, I regathered all my heavy duty cleaning supplies, got yet another
>> glob of Vicks (Take stock in the company. You will reap dividends from my
>> business alone. 🙄) and sanitized every blessed thing that needed it, plus
>> an extra radius simply because I was so grossed out.
>> 
>> Annnnnnnnd when I went to get the steam cleaner out of the closet, <sigh>
>> I discovered that Jim had accidentally forgotten to empty the dirty water
>> from it. You know, from a year ago? Can you spell R A N K? At that point I
>> needed and wanted to scream. You know, one of those soul cleansing primal
>> screams that lets at least some of the tension abate. But......1) Willow
>> would have had yet another accident out of sheer terror and 2) The
>> neighbor's down the road would have called the sheriff. And, although
>> Haywood County deputies are super nice and very chivalrous, somehow I don't
>> think they would have been willing to step into my personal poop hell to
>> assist me. 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩😷🤐😱😱😱😱😱😱
>> 
>> I had called Jim at 2pm and asked him to come home to help me. But, he
>> couldn't leave work. Because, you know, the place would collapse into a big
>> pile of 💩💩💩💩💩💩 if he dared to leave on time.
>> 
>> He did manage to get home by 3:45 with the extra meds and plain canned
>> pumpkin that I needed for Willow. And he willingly jumped into helping me
>> clean and sanitize the steam cleaner.
>> 
>> My house is so super clean!!!!!!!! And thankfully Willow has improved
>> enough to be allowed some pumpkin (it helps with GI upsets) and rice this
>> morning with no bad results. But, wow, my hip and Psoas muscle are killing
>> me!!!
>> 
>> I had such plans for today, too. I was going to ride Snowy into town to
>> the sheriff's office to show my ID so they can finish processing my request
>> for a gun permit. For target practice. For stress relief. For days like
>> this. 😳🙄😊
>> 
>> Que sera, sera. I'll just have to do it next week.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> My stress relief window shopping focus.
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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