When we got Kaiser we knew that he didn’t have any of his shots or his puppy check up so I made an appointment at our local vet office to start the process. I’ve been to this vets office before with some of our cats and our dogs, so I was pretty comfortable going there again with the puppy. But since I was going I thought I might as well take both of the dogs. Reno needed her 6 month check up for heart worms so I also made sure that they had time to look at both of them. I was kind of thinking that this was going to work taking both of them, but I wasn’t 100% sure. So after work tonight I beat it home to get the dogs out for a little while, comb out the burrs in Reno’s hair (I mean we were going to town and everything!) and then to try to coax them both into the truck. As soon as I put Reno’s leash on – she immediately became paralyzed. She went totally limp and for some reason neither her legs or her back worked anymore. She could only lay on the porch and look over at the edge at me. Kind of pathetic. But time was a ticking and I was already behind schedule, so I picked her up and half walked and half carried her across the yard to the truck. If someone would have driven by they would have wondered just what in the world was going on now! I already put Kaiser into the truck and he was sitting pretty good. Then I had got Reno’s front feet into the truck and I grabbed her backside and gave it a push. After I knew no one was going to get caught into the door – Bam! I shut the door. I ran around the to other side and climbed in. Instantly I had Reno slobbering not only my arm but also Kaiser who was sitting directly underneath her. And both of them decided that they wanted to sit as close or almost on top of me when I drove. Reno’s teeth were grinding and she had this little shaking thing going on at first, but once we were down the road a couple of miles the only thing that she was doing was the slobbering thing. Finally we made it to the vets office and they both did a great job.
I was hoping that Reno wouldn’t have an ‘accident’ when we were walking up to the front door and she came into the office like a trooper. When it was all said and done, they both sat so nice on the way home I couldn’t believe it. What a good job done!
When I got home, Daryl was working on cleaning out the cow yard. He was worried that the fields were too soft to haul manure, but it must have worked because he ended up hauling a couple of loads out.
Then he put the blade on the tractor and leveled out our driveway. During the winter the driveway can get washed out and pretty uneven, so blading it makes it level again for awhile.
As for me? Well I made some more cookies tonight. I tried to make a batch last night and to say that I was unsuccessful would be an understatement. Last night I couldn’t read the recipe on the bag of chips so I kind of guessed how much flour to put into it. Now to my defense I could see a 4, and even though that sounded like a crazy amount of flour to put in.. it did say a 4. So I beat the butter and sugars, added vanilla and eggs, then it was time to add the dry ingredients. I had this bowl of flour, salt, and baking soda and it sure looked like it wasn’t even going to fit into the bowl. But it did say 4 so I started to dump it into the mixer. At first it wasn’t too bad. But then, I knew something was wrong. My mixer was going burrrthump burrrthump and the batter was just going around in the bowl likes some type of medieval weapon or something. So finally I thought I better look up this recipe on the internet. I did have the “4” part right, but it was 2 1/4 cups not 4 cups. I tried to scoop out some of the flour and then I put in some more salt and baking soda into the bowl. But when I baked the first couple of pans last night I knew that I might as well start over another day. I didn’t have the chickens locked up yet for the night so I put everything back into the bowl and headed for the chicken coop. I’m guessing the cookies didn’t last long with the all the chickens and if you get eggs from our farm the next couple dozens just might taste like chocolate 🙂 So tonight I looked up the recipe BEFORE I started to bake and they turned out just fine. 