Heavenly Acres, Stanardsville, VA

weekend please hurry. i'm so intolerant of everything that is minorly displeasing or irritating, i really need a break. not that this weekend will be a break necessarily, but boy i hope it will. i'm worn way thin and can't get any relief.
infinite puppy snuggles in cool mountain air and sunshine await!

this weekend we spent all of our time trying to work out the fixing of the RV bathroom

it sort of went well, we hit major roadblocks but at least know more about the plumbing now. all those white plumbing fittings on the ends of the black tubes...those are all RV specific. we spent hours at lowes trying to mock up something that would work, and there was no solution to be had. okay, well the internet always has the answer, so we know of a possible solution. we knocked out a few things and faltered on others, but the idle issue is fixed, the bathroom floor is almost ready to be put down, the toilet is almost ready to be installed, and we think we know where to get the plumbing fittings we need. so really, even though it felt depressing and awful to do so much work for nothing, really it was not that bad.

saturday there was a bike race/fun ride. julie and i worked a stop where we made cyclists swim/wade out to us to get a signature. hee hee.



it got muddier and muddier as more people came and trampled through the reeds, and the rocks got wetter and dangerous for folks in cycling shoes. oops. lots of people fell in the water after trying to carefully wade across. it was warm outside, and noone was hurt, so it was funny.



we had a nice campfire at the pipeline afterward, the smoke was just enough to totally ward off the mosquitos.



as usual, Dottie has been very cute and funny.



i'm really ready for the weekend to happen again, this week is going to kill me. i need time off, big time.

Meanwhile, Dottie has been honing her rodeo skills. This video was right after she threw up on me.

After a long work week, Dottie was about to have a very busy weekend. We went on some epic walks, about thirty minutes is the max we'll do, and boy is she tired afterward. She lays on cool stoops along the walk, being such a black little dog means you absorb lots of heat.



Sunday we went on a nice long early morning walk around the neighborhood and it was followed by serious brother/sister snuggle naps.

Then we went to our friend's house for a puppy adventure. Greg and Nicole bought my Pinto, and also ended up getting Dottie's littermate brother, Marco. YAY! The two generation of fine Bostons got to play for about three hours, which completely wiped em out. YAY!








Good lord it was hilarious. The doggies are still sort of worn out from it.
Somehow, in the mix, I guess Dottie managed to sit on some sort of bee/spider/bug because she developed a HUGE bugbite that night. We went to the vet to check it out and everything seems to be okay, but for a five pound puppy, its a huge welt.


Today it is smaller, and it still seems to not hurt her or bother her, but I'm sure its uncomfortable. Hopefully it will drastically go away this week. If not we'll be back at the vet for a checkout.
Poor lady.

In other good news, Dottie and Egon are totally past their weird standoffish ness, and are getting better at being unafraid cuddlers. Its excellent.

Hopefully this work week will fly by, we have a lot of Winnebago stuff to tackle and this weekend was a wash as far as that went. Ah well.

all dogs, all the time.
going camping this weekend. stoked. we'll see how that goes, maiden voyage of the winnebago.

What a week. Got a puppy, got a raise, and got a car. Goddang!
Dottie comes to work with me every day, she is hilarious to have around the salon. We get to take nice walks on our lunchbreak, there is a park between Ellwood and Floyd in the alley, so less than a block away we are in a beautiful garden.



Dotties ears are curling much sooner than Egon's did, so I'm picking up some yogurt for her (the boys will get some too, how could I not share?) to help out while she is teething.

Dottie came home Friday night, she is Egon's sister proper.
Can't say I've slept much since then, but man, after a month or so, it'll totally have been worth it. She is so soft, and so cute, and so ridiculous.
Welcome home, Dottie June!

every monday the dogs follow me around the house and take naps wherever i stop to work on a project. only when i have really made them bored by not talking to them or offering them something to eat do they go upstairs to the couch to sleep.

busy week ahead.