Mirlisa's Bits and Pieces

I played with my little camera this morning. It had been cutting off in the middle of taking videos, so I reviewed the owner’s manual and it suggested reformatting the card. I did and it has seemed to do the trick.

The picture for today is one of Boxer and Sydney from this morning – we had some nice quality time sitting on the desk and watching nature around us.

I think Mir’s in the shower – and as soon as she’s done we’ll take off to do some errands.

Later. gator.

I’m finally starting to feel better. Took a high powered cough medicine last night and it really helped me to get a good night’s rest.

Boxer had a rough week, too. Took him in to get his teeth cleaned and he ended up with two fewer teeth – two were loose and needed to be removed. We’re thinking one of them might be related to when he was shot with BBs as a pup – one hit his mouth (he lost part of his tongue).

In addition to the teeth, we had a skin tag removed and another little thing removed – it’s being biopsied – hopefully, that will come back normal.

It’s been a long week for all of us. Tomorrow, I’m off. Thank goodness.

I’m sick today. Haven’t been sick in almost two years (well, except for my frozen shoulder – but I don’t consider that “sick”). Am blogging until the meds kick in and I’m off to bed to see if I can nip this thing before it goes any further.

Remember that the land line gets cut today.

Okay, I’m tired – going to bed.

Ahhh, our lovely home, and yes, the Obama sign is there – listen, folks, unless you want more of the same, you gotta vote Obama. If you care about the war in Iraq, about global warming (and yes, it’s really happening and yes, mankind, is to blame for the rapidity at which it is happening), health care, social security – well, then your bests interests are best represented in electing Obama. However, if you like things just the way they are – and/or worse – well, then McCain’s your man. I, for one, am ready for a change.

This country needs a change!

I mentioned it in my last post but wanted to restate it – our land line is going bye-bye on Monday, August 4. So, you will need to call either one of our cell phones to communicate. We have also become quite proficient at text messaging.

It’s Saturday. I’m sitting here playing on the computer while Miriam irons her clothes for work. Yes, she will go in tomorrow morning for a few hours. While she’s away, I will play. Not sure yet what I’ll do.

It’s been a nice weekend so far. It was overcast and a little rainy today – but it was great for working in the yard – so we mowed and edged and trimmed – now it looks real nice. We like to have curb appeal.

I need to get out and take some pictures and post them here.

Oh yes, we have killed our land line – yes, we’re stepping out on the edge and going to cell phone only. We’ll see how they hold up if we have a hurricane this year.

Just for fun, I thought I’d post a picture of Peanut at the beach.

Ciao.

Since I hadn’t posted one before, I decided to post a picture of our fence.

For those of you in the know, our new fence is up – tomorrow they come to finish up and work on a short punch list we have put together.

It is such a relief to know that we can let the dogs out and not worry that they have to contend with the little terrors next door or that Peanut is going to climb the fence. We spent the entire weekend cleaning things up and putting down some new mulch. We hope to have a “fence party” sometime soon to celebrate the fortress!

I want to get more into this blogging thing – but, man, it’s sometimes hard to find something interesting to talk about. So, I need to take a page out of Carrie Bradshaw’s work – find a theme and write about it. So, I will think about a theme and when I come up with one I will write about it.

That’s all for now. Bye.