A few things make a post

[unicornduke]

 things have occurred in the last three ish weeks but I truly have no idea at this point what they were.

This weekend I was at my parents place and cleaned garlic for sale at my uncle's stand and my parent's place. Didn't take long to get enough cleaned for at least a month of sales and because I now have a house with storage, I brought back a bushel basket of garlic and will be cleaning it here! Huzzah! 

Also Friday, my cousin was in town and so was my uncle who just retired from university teaching in Texas for his entire career so there was a family party and it was livelier than they have been for a while. Newer additions are the kid's of my cousin's girlfriend (the cousin in the car accident) and the whole situation is extremely weird. Pre-accident, cousin and gf had only been dating for a few weeks before they planned to move in together. At some point, my parents mentioned that she was being evicted from her apartment. Gf has two kids, one 13 and one 3 and my cousin has an 11 year old kid. They've also starting referring to everyone as family names "Uncle so-and-so" and they haven't been integrated into the family for more than 6 months. The gf seems nice enough but the situation is extremely weird so I'm a little skeptical of the whole thing. 

Mara has a weird skin bald spot on her side, it was getting bigger so I took her to the bet last week and got her antibiotics. Because I started giving her antibiotics in hot dogs, she now refuses to eat them. And every couple days I now need to switch up what I'm giving her the pills in because she refuses to eat whatever it is. I just picked up two types of lunch meat and deli cheese because I'm getting desperate. 

Hot hot hot, only two days left of this current hot streak of weather with some rain coming tomorrow. 

I re-arranged my room again to move an extra shelf out of the way into a spot where it could be ready to go upstairs. I then moved my fiber shelves to next to my desk/fiber area and the book shelf that had been there over by my door. The main reason I put the fiber shelf where I did was because it had to run parallel to the beams in the ceiling because stacked, it hit them. While I was at it, also I ran a physical ethernet cord into my room via the basement and my closet. The original plan was to put a second wifi unit in my room because our phones drop the wifi a lot on this side of the house, but the wifi we use was the internet company's and couldn't do the adjustments needed to use the second one and the second was so old it didn't use letters in a password. So I got a rec for a new wifi Unifi Pro 6, ordered it and turns out to need power over ethernet plus, so I ordered an injector that should come tomorrow. Hopefully it will have enough power to reach our rooms, but if not, I'm going to get a second cheap wifi for in here. 

Hope everyone else's weeks have been going okay!

Comments

[which_chick]

My grandma's collie Blackie* would take the hotdog or piece of cheese with pill inside, carefully remove the pill, drop it on the ground, and swallow the now de-pilled bribe food. Finally grandma gave up and held up the pill: Blackie, Sit! (he did) Good Boy! (and she handed him the naked pill, which he ate as happily as he did anything).

*My grandparents had a succession of tricolored collies, all called "Blackie". This one was the one that bit my face bad enough that I needed stitches. To be fair, I pulled his tail while he was eating and I shouldn't have done that, but I WAS A TWO YEAR OLD and my judgment about what and what not to do wasn't super-great. Face-biter Blackie remained my grandparents' dog following the face biting incident and he died of old age when I was about twelve. (Subsequent grandchildren were more carefully supervised around Blackie or he was locked in a bedroom for the duration of the children's visit. In his very old age, he hid under the pool table or slunk upstairs to where toddlers could not get to him.)

[unicornduke]

Yeah, I just started pilling her by gently holding her mouth open and putting them back as far as I could. She doesn't like it but it is apparently less terrible to her than food betrayal. Dogs are weird.

[which_chick]

I think "food betrayal" is 100% the problem with pill-in-bribery food. Some dogs just can't work with that and prefer to... just think you're bad at treats (Blackie) or tolerate the straight up medication (Mara).

[ranunculus]

There are boosters for phone signal. I know they use them all the time in Alaska.

[graydon]

Hope Mara's OK!

I'm sorry she's tough to pill, too. Liquids an option?

Here's hoping the heat breaks! (Supposed to be thunderstorms coming through here in the next couple of hours, so they might not be too far behind that getting to you.)

May the internet behave!

[unicornduke]

It was antibiotics and I just started pilling her without food because she stopped eating all her food because of the pills. So she's not happy about the pills and the process but at least she's eating. But this morning was also the last set of pills and her bald spot is definitely less weird and seems to have stopped growing. I'm going to mark it with a marker to make sure that's true but it already feels better to my touch.

Heat has broken and it is lovely cool now!

[graydon]

Hurrah, heat has broken!

(Here, too. I am hoping the forecast holds and the week of single-digit-C nightime lows happens.)

Glad Mara's improving. May it continue!