This has been a week of appointments for Jeff. He saw his attending physician, his optometrist, and a diet coach for help with his diabetes. Seems like every other day we were sitting in a waiting room someplace...oh, we were! And it will continue next week. He's got an appointment with a specialist who will run an electric current down his leg to see how badly it's damaged. Definitely something not to look forward to.
Jeff's only been fishing once this season so when he decided to go fishing yesterday, I was glad, and he happily drove off around 4pm. Zoey bayed and howled because she wasn't going with him but eventually calmed down and came in when I called out 'Supper!' We had had steak the night before and there was a hunk left over that I cut up and divided between the dog dishes...then I had to stand guard to keep them to their respective portions or else Zoey would have tried to get Fanny's steak and all hell would have broken loose! After they had cleaned their dishes...and they did...I picked up the book I had been reading ('Song of the Lion' by Anne Hillerman...she's as good a writer as her father was and the Navajo characters are still busy policing the Rez). We had decided to cancel the cable TV part of our Spectrum bundle because of the expense and repetition of channels and yesterday they turned us off AFTER Jeff went fishing so he didn't have a chance to turn on our antenna! Being w/o TV wasn't so bad becoz Jim Chee and the other Navajo characters were with me. When I finished the book and was making a pot of coffee, there was a knock at the door. Fanny hid under the kitchen table (signaling that she wasn't sure who it was) but Zoey ran to greet our guest. It was my cousin, Ed, returning a Corningware dish I had sent home with him filled with leftovers the last time he came to supper. Besides returning my dish he was warning us not to look for him for the next couple of weeks because he was going on vacation to California! We sat at the kitchen table and talked about his coming trip, where he was going, who he'd visit, and drinking coffee until Jeff came home around 10pm. Jeff was excited to report he had found a new fishing hole in Little Falls and explained how he found it. Since Ed and I are both more familiar with the city than Jeff, we recognized where he was taking about quickly. Seems the Rotary has built a rather nice launching site on the river, complete with picnic tables and hibachis, that is easy to get to. Jeff met some other guys there and enjoyed himself fishing. He caught some good size fish but since he is a sport fisherman, he released them. We're planning to take a picnic there before the weather changes. I made another pot of coffee and the 3 of us talked some more. When Ed left it was near midnight! Suddenly Jeff was looking for his car keys and couldn't find them! Since he drove home they have to be here someplace!! We tried to look around and in the car last night but it was too dark (remember, we live in the country and there aren't any street lights). The keys should turn up today!
I didn't get any knitting done last night so I plan on doing some today. I've got to finish the test knit I'm doing for Stitch Angles(I missed the deadline but I'll still finish it!) and I want to work on the lacey shawl I'm doing for the shop. I was scheduled to work on 9/10 but found an email before I went to bed asking me to switch to 9/15, giving me an extra week to get it done. I promise to post photos of both the test knit and the lacey shawl!!
Poor Zoey! She and Fanny were playing tag coming in from the porch before lunch and Fanny jumped up and knocked an almost full coffee cup out of my hand giving Zoey a shower of hot coffee!! She let out a squeal and ran back outside. I grabbed a towel and went after her, eventually getting her back into the house. Her head was soaked with coffee but she didn't seem to be burnt or hurt. I finally pinned her to the bed to give her a rubdown...which she didn't like! A dog biscuit with a touch of peanut butter helped ease whatever pain she was in and Fanny came over to help dry her off by licking the coffee off her head. Zoey liked that better than the rubdown! And the coffee cleaned the kitchen floor very nicely...there is now a lighter patch in front of the refrigerator and stove. Ah, country living.
Now it's time to go look for those car keys!!
SUCCESS: KEYS FOUND!!
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