Baby Bird Update 2

The eyes have opened, but I only saw 3 heads this afternoon. I'll check again later for four.

Molly & Pongo's Great Adventure - Part 2

So, I go to Pep Boys and they say I'm looking at 1.5-2 hours before being ready. It's about 5:00 pm, so it's looking like 6:30 - 7:00. I decide to walk the dogs over to the Pet Smart. We go waste about 1.5 hours over there, and then return to Pep Boys. I was able to watch my car getting serviced.

So, 7:15 rolls around, and I'm paying for the work on the car, but I have a softball game in Gaithersburg at 8:15pm. If I go back home to drop off the dogs, I miss all of game 1. So, I decide to grab some snacks at the gas station (trail mix rocks!) and drive down to the park with dogs in tow.

The games went well (we won both!), and the dogs behaved just great. They were beat from all the excitement, so not much energy left. I ended up getting home just past 11:00pm.

Did I mention I didn't get to sleep until about 10 til midnight and woke up this morning at 4:30 am? Ah yes, thank God the pets cooperated this morning.

Molly & Pongo's Great Adventure

Ever have one of those days? Yesterday was one for me. It all started when my foot started itching overnight, and I got woken up again by a ringing phone on my day off. So, I'm up early and not feeling well-rested.

A comical series of errors then unfolded. Hubby and I were going to drive separate cars to the office parking lot and then I drop him off at the Metro. Well, we dilly-dallied our way through lunch and ended up rushing. We ended up in one car. Oh, and the dogs came with us. I wanted to take the pups to the Ridge Road Dog Park after dropping him off.

So, everything is honky dory until I get to the park. That's when I notice a hissing noise on my back left tire. It's a jagged metal loop sticking into the rubber... a FLAT! So, here it is mid 90s with dewpoints near 70 and I have two dogs and a flat tire. So, I put the dogs inside the dog park fence so they don't get super hot while I try to take care of the tire.

I get the jack out and the donut tire and the piece you put into the edge of the jack to get it to go up/down is missing. I end up trying a small screwdriver. I got it high enough to get the flat off, but not high enough to put the donut on. I end up calling roadside assistance. So, I go inside the park to wait with the dogs and play with them, resuming my original plan. Might as well try to salvage the trip and get the dogs running around.

After about an hour, the donut's on the car and I need to find a place to patch the flat. I can't commute around here on a donut (50 mph limit). I end up going to Pep Boys.

Baby Bird Update

I saw some heads reaching over the edge of the nest, but still no eyes opened. I don't hear much peeping yet either. Surely these little guys will be making noise by the end of the week.

Invisible Fence

We have started training the dogs on the Invisible Fence. Hopefully in about a month or so, we can just let them out in the morning and go do their business. It will be nice for the dogs to be able to run around in the yard. We just have to teach them to respect the boundary.

Bird Watching, Part 2

A quick update to the earlier post... add chickadees and mourning doves. Also, 4 heads in the robin's nest. One baby was reaching up with its head. Very cute. I'll try to get a photo.

Bird Watching

So, it's time to start logging the avian visitors to the feeder and the birdbath at the house. We have bluejays, cardinals, robins, sparrows. The robin's nest is still nestled under the deck. I'll have to confirm eggs in there, but I'm pretty sure there are some.

What's a Blog?

What exactly is a blog again? It's supposed to be a web log, a diary if you will. I can pretty much say whatever the heck I want here... or can I? Does anybody read this crap? I mean really, it's not like I advertise it or anything. You'd have to stumble over yourselves to find it, unless you came here to read from the Sunflake page, which is linked from a couple other spots from my GFK days. But seriously, folks, if you're reading this then you probably need a life. The fact that I'm TYPING this obviously shows I have no life. So let's get real and go do something, already!

Don't Bother

I have two fantasy baseball teams and they both stink. I say, don't bother playing fantasy baseball because it never pans out the way you think it will.

I Burnt My Face In San Francisco

Okay, I didn't exactly get a total sunburn, but my arms, cheekbones and nose got a little pink during my weekend extravaganza in San Fran. Some peelage on the arms, but nothing too itchy or painful.