So, what’s been going on? Not much that I can tell about, I fear. A lot of it involved work, so that’s off limits, as you know. Dontcha just hate it when there are parts of life that one can’t discuss on a perfectly respectable blog? Ah well, no matter. Let’s see what else I can talk about.
The mess of what used to be the yard is basically cleaned up. Now we’re fully in the waiting game of when town hall comes to check on us. I do hope that they don’t dawdle. The waiting is friggin’ killing me. I want to be put out of my misery for once and for all, for crying out loud.
Knight II is back home, still very weak and skinny, but as of yesterday eating well again, thank gawd. He is still hacking up slime through out the night, which makes sleeping mighty interesting, and during the day he sleeps a lot. Like right now, he’s stretched out on my old porch, in the full sunshine, really enjoying himself. Big lug just loves sunbathing. Went in for his checkup today and the vet was pleased to note that his lungs sounded a lot better. Far more capacity than the last time, which is a vast relief.
The weather is absolutely gorgeous at the moment. The sun is out, the clouds at a distance, and the wind still nicely fresh. For as far as I’m concerned, it can stay like this forever…weather wise anyway. Hah.
Considering it’s my free day today (the way things look right now, my last free day before actual unemployment) I spent part of the morning making pattie dough. Did three varieties, lentil, bean, and chickpea, because it is just an easy thing to have when you don’t have a lot of time to cook. They’re healthy, nutritional , and, well, just jummy. Will be making some sort of veggie mash to go with it tonight. Something with peppers and zucchini I’m thinking. Maybe some sort of ratatouille. Hmmm. I’ll have to think on that some more before I decide. I also still have a beet salad in the fridge, might have to go for that one. We’ll see.
Like I mentioned the other day, the competition is now in full swing, I’m so curious what these reviewers will think of it. Might be they hate it, but I’m trying to maintain a positive attitude and will therefore maintain that they’ll think it splendid. Hah. The 18th will the date when we know.
Still haven’t heard from the cooking competition people. Whether that is a good sign or not…you’re guess is as good as mine, on that one.
A bit of sad news is that our oldest dog, Sama, a 16 year old husky that has been with us since 1998/1999, is doing worse these days, and is in pain, so we will have to take her to the vet one of these days, and if it turns out that her many ailments are too far gone for anything to help much, the dreaded decision will have to be made again. Gawd, I just hate it when that happens, but her life is now becoming a question of quality, rather than longevity. For a little girl with various cancers through her lifetime, an awful viral infection in the blood that almost cost her her life, she held out a real long time with relatively little trouble. Now she is blind, however, almost deaf and losing what was left of her mobility. Also the large cancerous growth in her stomach is rapidly progressing. She eats like a mammoth, and yet she is losing weight, and the pain is getting to be so that she’ll cry out every now and then. The time is drawing near, that’s a fact. Sadness…heck any emotion, should not cloud this decision, this about what is best for her.
Some nice news, we’ve decided to just go for it, and publish the book that was recently declined by a publisher. Sure, very disappointing and everything, blah blah, but that doesn’t change that I think some folks out there will enjoy reading it, so it’s going to happen one of these days. Big brother and I have been working on the cover and came up with this one:
1st option:
But there has been a word or two about the color, Big Brother included. I love this color, but this is not only about what I love, but also potential readers. Here are the other options:
2nd option:
3rd option:
4th option:
5th option:
6th option:
7th option:
Let me know what you think. Which one would totally draw your eye if you were looking for a lovely romantic gangster story set in the roaring 20s, in Chicago of all places?
I should probably be offering some sort of reward for the one that picks the “winning” color…a free book when it comes out? You let me know if you want one. *wink*
What else? Drawing a blank here…well, most of the dogs got rid of their cough. There’s some hacking going on every now and that, but that too should disappear in a few more days, a week at most.
Again I’m blanking out. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? Finally I’ve got a moment to write this week’s blog, and the stupid head decides to forget most of anything remotely interesting to report. I mean, seriously, you don’t want to hear about the bill paid for Knight II (although, the vet, gotta love her, didn’t ask payment for his hospitalization, which would have been a mint seeing as he was there for almost a week.) or how I had to go to the bank four times this month because ever since the changes with the bank being bought by another, none of the automatic payments are being paid. *sigh* Very aggravating, that, by the way. Also, there’s nothing interesting about having to rush to our insurance broker because we were late paying our medical insurance, also due to the bank messing up. *double sigh*
No big news about Sally and tenant. The first is still alive, just barely, although she apparently suddenly did respond to cousin Ed, which had been ages, so maybe she’s still there somehow. Tenant and cousin Ed are both enjoying their dogs. Already there are plenty of stories about Sammie and Julia needing to get used to city living, which they had never done before. Can you imagine, always in the country, and then suddenly you have to behave. Hah. It’s good for them, I think. Change is vital to keep life interesting. Tenant did have a little bit of a scare. She and cousin Ed were swimming the other day, and she got a dizzy spell after which she wasn’t able to come up from the water, scaring the both of them out of two months of their lives…I can imagine. But apparently it is not unusual. The doctor said that it probably had to do with water in her ear, throwing her of, so to speak.
Oh, I had a work related road trip the other day. I got to see the area near Almogía, which was very different from here. Very bare, and remote, even though I was no more than twenty minutes away from Málaga. Always nice to see new places.
Well, this is going to have to be it. That’s all she wrote, as they say. Let’s hope I’ll be back same day next week, and remember a little more of the things that have been happening.
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