Tuesday pileup

So much on my list, so little motivation to get to any of it. Why?  Well, because it's boring stuff. Because it can wait. For a while. Not a long while, but still. Because I'd rather be reading or taking a walk or looking at flowers. Because the list is too long and it'll take forever to clear it. Because I dont like lists that require effort. 

Because the morning is bright, cool, pretty and my attention is diverted to its possibilities. 

Millie is still hackin' away and today her energy level is low and her appetite even lower. 

 

 

 

I have to literally bring food to her mouth to get her to take a few nibbles (a necessity, because in there lies her medication). I take her for a walk and then we have a surprisingly early drop-in visit from Ed, who then tells me he is still allergic to something in the house. Great. Will Steffi's House have the same weird irritating effect on his lungs? Let's not go there just yet.

To be sure, this is not her preferred resting position for Millie. Left to her own devices, she will hide under the couch right now -- the closest she can come to having a den. That and the crate are her safe spaces. When she is not her healthy self, she'll often retreat there. 

Like Millie, Ed is tired and not hungry for a breakfast. He snoozes, I eat. The narcissus are from the farmette. I snip them now, even though I had rarely cut flowers from the flower fields when I lived there. 

I pick up my book and finish it right after Ed leaves. It's that kind of a day! 

Millie needed to be alone (thus in the crate) for four hours this afternoon -- not something I would have liked to do, especially at this age, but I had scheduled a needed dental visit (the dental technician was not chatty! I was so grateful...) and then of course there were the big two kid pickups. And I had to stop (with the big two) at the Vet's because guess what -- Millie came back with a positive test result for a stomach parasite. Same one she had before, so clearly the first round of treatment, the one that made her sick in fact, hadn't been effective. So now she is on three (or is it four?) medications and housebound for at least another week.

She was very happy to be set free when we finally got to Sally's House. 

 

 

So tickled in fact, that she threw up. Twice. Or, was that because she had an empty stomach? Or still the GI disturbance?  My dentist has a goldendoodle. He tells me she is on meds for allergies. Many allergies. I pass on my sympathies. Oh, but dont worry, it's mostly because she is white. White dogs get all kinds of skin issues. 

Good to know.

Tomorrow, I will get serious about my pileup of chores. Today? Hey, I attended to my teeth, the kids and Millie's health issues. That's plenty, believe me.

with so much love...