Saturday, June 7 2003
Just back to bed after incident with Vince. Heard yakking sounds & dog cough and I went to the dog’s room. Tessa was fine, & Pav, but when I looked for Vince under the bed I saw where he’d been suddenly sick (bit of a spray pattern on the bedskirt..). Coaxed him out, and he kept licking his muzzle and stopping himself from throwing up. Put him & Tessa outside, and Vince ate grass like mad.
David came out & watched over him while I flipped through the dog first aid book. Meanwhile Vince barfed up a load of grass & felt better, but then ate more grass & drank a lot of water. We waited, but no throw-up. So, now in bed with old blankets on & 2 tired dogs.
9:37pm David went to the vet office this morning to pick up the meds for Tig. I didn’t have too much trouble getting him to swallow the tiny pill since I’ve had experience sticking my hand in the toothy mouth of a Doberman…
The day started out cloudy, so I cleaned house while David went downstairs & resumed work on the bathroom. Today he installed ceiling framework, ceiling fan, wiring & outlets.
It warmed up outside by noon, so I headed out and trimmed grass around new trees before heading out to the field garden. Planted dill, sweet onions, watered everything, gathered up clumps of soil. Went in @ 6pm—didn’t really know what time it was, I was just thirsty;--and made dinner (chicken reheat, rice, veggies) and watched the Belmont Stakes. FunnyCide did not win the Triple Crown…
After dinner David went to Geyer’s in Lexington to buy some emergency dog food and I went back out to the garden to use up the last of the daylight. It felt so good to work hard & sweat in the humidity in the name of creating a food garden—I look forward to sharing the harvest with others.
Just saw on the news that Seattle has had 3 days in a row over 90*. Yuk! The *house must be suffocatingly hot in the evening. Got a nice email from Cindy B. the other day; sounds like not much has changed there, but they did finally meet the couple that bought our house. Also Matt (aka ‘farm boy’) and his dogs finally relocated.
Vince seems to be all recovered from his ‘episode’ last night. We have the two little ones on the bed with us again tonight—just in case.
The birds have been roaring through the bird feed in record time. . . .Supposed to rain tomorrow afternoon. . . .Need to bake some goodies to have around, and some biscuits too. . . .Need to come up with a menu and a grocery list. . . .Must plant tomato plants!. . . .11:36pm, time to go to sleep so I can get up early tomorrow with the dogs, and stay up.
*house must be suffocatingly hot: back of the house faced west, with no awnings or tree cover, and no air conditioner. Perfectly fine for 98% of Seattle weather, but bad for heat waves.
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