Next Job & Next Week

Up this weekend on the honey-do list is mounting the new LCD TV in the kitchen. Jeff has been enrolled to come down and suffer through many bottles of wine while we tackle what should be a fast and easy job. Jodi is on Hospital call this weekend, which means she may be home in an hour or gone all day. This makes weekend planning a little difficult; but we have become very good at making any plans rather vague.

Next weekend she is leaving to see her friend in Seattle for a week. They have been best friends for longer than Jeff and I have been, which is a long time. She deserves her week away from me and the household, but will be sorely missed none the less. It seems like we are still in the habit of taking separate vacations. This was a fact of life for us for 4 years while we had a disabled dog named Hudson that required 24 hour-a-day care. There simply wasn't anybody (except Jeff and occasionally Dick) that we felt we could ask to take care of her. It was just too big of a job to ask anyone to do. There was one specialized kennel in the Twin Cities that would take her, but the bills ran about $800 for a week. We finally just realized it was cheaper and easier for one of us to stay home. It was a labor of love while it lasted, but we lost her last summer. So out of the frying pan and into the fire...We got a puppy soon after.

Now guess what keeps us home. Hint: she is now 65 pounds of silky black mischief, composed of pure energy, and hell bent on the destruction of shoes and our cat. Her name is Macy Mae...And her title is Queen of the House.

P.S. I'm planning to create a page in tribute to Hudson. Check back under the "my pages" section soon.

(Update: The spot on Hudson is now complete except for a few photos I plan on adding. Click on "Hudson's Page" under the my pages section and get ready to shed a few tears.)