Fall Cleaning

The last couple days I've spent about 2 hours or so cleaning out the garage. As many of you know, this can be a major pain, but a necessary one. In the winter, Steph likes to keep the Scion in the garage. The garage is big enough for both our vehicles, but it's better to have one side available for storage instead on trying to cram everything in there. As you can see, our garage is a pretty old construction. Old wood, no drywall or insulation, it often lets the elements in year round. As a result, there's always a lot of dirt blown in under the door and through the walls. Luckily, last weekend the town had its annual clean up day, so I was able to get rid of some of the bigger things we'd accumulated over the last year. Now all that's left is organizing the smaller things and cleaning up the dust. It should look a lot better once I'm finished.

All Screwed Up

What a day. I stayed home from work Friday, so I decided to try to go to bed early. that way, I could get up much earlier than usual, and get some things done around the house. Well, I certainly did get up earlier. I went to bed around 4:30am, and I woke up at 8:30am. I don't have any idea why, but I just woke up and couldn't go back to sleep. So here I sit, technically it's Saturday morning, 2:40 am and struggling to stay awake. I'm really afraid of going to be too early, getting up incredibly early again, and being all screwed up Sunday night when I return from work. I'm sure I'll be okay, but these sleep patterns are really annoying.

Revolutionary Results

As you all know, our cats have been having some flea problems as of late. We've used a carpet spray, vacuumed frequently, and medicated the cats. After reading several very positive reviews online, I chose Revolution for Cats for the treatment. Revolution not only kills fleas, but is also a treatment for heartworm, ear mites, hookworm, and roundworm. Yeah, it's good stuff. I've been checking Punkin about every day, and I often find one, if not several fleas on him. That was the same tonight, only the four fleas I saw were dead fleas. This is a really good sign. Hopefully the carpet spray did its job, and no new eggs will be hatching to replace the fleas that are being killed on the cats.

Favorite Shots #16: Thinking About California

I'm an uncle again! Monday night my sister Kathie gave birth to their second child, Ava Mae. She was born at 8:38 pm, at a healthy 7lbs 4oz. All these babies all over the place! My sister-in-law Melanie is also pregnant, so there will be three kids in my family separated by only a few months. All this thinking about Kathie and California got me looking through our vacation photos again. this is probably one of my favorite shots from the trip. On our last (non-travel) day there, we drove down the coast to see these massive elephant seals. We've done this before, but there were far more this year than any time before.

Today we had an appointment for another ultrasound with Steph's doctor. The appointment wasn't until 10:00am, but I wanted to go anyway so I could see baby Roach for myself. Unfortunately, the doctor decided to push the procedure back to next week, so I guess I'll have to wait until then.

Spraying

A few days back, I put an order in for some carpet spray for our reported flea problem. Every review of this stuff I read said that it was highly effective, but it's a bit costly, and you need to do it every two weeks. Add to that the cost of an effective flea medicine for the cats themselves, and it gets expensive. We bought something called Revolution, which has also reviewed well, so hopefully in a few weeks the infestation will be a thing of the past. Ah, the joys of pet ownership....

Hiding Places

Every since our cat Chloe has been having health problems, we've been forced to give her antibiotics twice a day. This is not a pleasant experience for her. It's a bitter, stinky liquid, and we have to hold her tight and force the dropper into her mouth. She's learned that we give them to her at specific times, so she's become very creative in finding places to hide in the morning and the evenings. A couple weeks ago, we were unable to find her for about three days running. We were late getting her to an appointment because she was so well hidden. Her latest, and by far the cutest, hiding spot is in this wicker basket on top of our kitchen cabinets. She's so little, that when she lays down inside it, you can barely see her. Little stinker.

Sunday Rush Hour

Sundays lately have been seriously rushed. With 3+ hours sitting in front of the tube watching football, and work forcing us to come in 2 hours early every Sunday, it seems on these short weekends as if I don't even get a day off. They used to ask for volunteers on Sunday night, but after two weeks of not getting enough people, they started making it mandatory for third shift to work 10 on Sunday night/Monday morning. The only positive is the first three hours of the night are double time.