A Day Outside
April 7, 2008 by JanB
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Yesterday was heavenly. It was so warm and sunny that I have some pink on my face today. My son Rick and his wife Jade and their little baby girl came over and stayed for several hours. We had a little cook out and sat outside for quite sometime. They brought their two little dogs - one is a puppy and one is full grown - we were just amazed by how Charlie interacted with their dogs.
You know, for a year we have had problems with Charlie not wanting to go anywhere near our Great Pyrenees, Snowy. He would not even go outside! Yesterday we gave Snowy away to another family who already have two Pyrenees.
Well, Charlie was actually playing with and holding the leash for these two beagles. He started interacting with them on his own! They were very high energy, but he was ok with it, as long as they were leashed. Apparently size matters to Charlie. He would have never even been in the same yard with Snowy. It floored me. Here is a photo.
That’s Jon getting ready to throw the ball for the dog and Hubby cleaning up the dog poop. I hate that job. Snowy was so big that we had to use a wheelbarrow.
What this says to me is that Charlie has not been damaged by this year. He will still be ok with dogs. I am going to get another leash (gave ours to the people who took Snowy) and get Charlie started walking our Teddy, our collie. Here’s a photo of him when he was younger, since wiping our harddrive to get rid of viruses, I don’t have any photos of him on it:
No, we are not getting any other dogs!! Just Teddy, and we do have a Plan B in mind in case the placement with the folks here in town does not work out and it does not involve shelters, thank goodness. I want her to have a good home. I cried so hard when she left, but it seemed like Rachel and I were the only ones who really miss her. Rachel keeps asking when we can go to see her. Hopefully soon.
I have made a decision lately about the surgery. I am going to get my gallbladder out locally and NOT get the tummy tuck. I want to lose the rest of my fat on my own. I want to be in maintenance for at least a year before I do the surgery (if I still feel I need it), mainly because you can’t exercise for nearly two month afterward. It’s too dangerous for me to stop working out now. I need to keep building good habits. And frankly, I don’t look all that bad. I don’t want to lose my whole summer to a recovery. I want to be able to have my garden and I was getting so anxious over just thinking about it, that I thought it was just not the right thing for me to do.
So that’s it. Get this gallbladder out and then get onto the serious business of enjoying this Spring and Summer.
Onto another topic, Have you seen these foods? I just found them and they are WONDERFUL and no calories and no fat!! I just bought the caramel and ordered the peanut spread and some of the others. I love it!
PS — Playing with my little Grandbaby for several hours was wonderful! She is chubby, smiley and just wonderful. What a great time we had!
Jan, love reading your blog. So glad the spring has finally arrived to your part of the woods. With the gallstones, are any hospitals in your area doing lithotripsy? It sounds like a good alternative, perhaps, to surgery. A friend just had it done (but it was for kidney stones I guess), but he just went in for a few hours in the afternoon, and didn’t have to stay overnight. I hope that Snowy adjusts to her new home well!. Take care, Nancy Tsurumaki in Tokyo (lots of hospitals and some offer lithotripsy).
I will look into this. Part of the problem is that our local hospital, which is in the next town over, is so tiny and rural. It’s a long drive to get to a more modern hospital.
good job snowey finding a new home. I so hope this oen works out Jan. I have to tell you that I went to a friends house yesterday and they have wood flooring and 2 big dogs. I swept the floors adn all the time thinking,,,”AND Y OU WANT A BIG DOG,,, ARN’T Y OU GLAD THERE IS NO DOG IN YOUR HOUSE,,,,, YEAH A LITTLE DOG IS NICE WHEN THE TIME COMES” so, I so hope it works. I can’t wait to see my grand baby on the outside… it is pretty fat looking on the inside now hahhahhahaha if y ou tell Amy I said that I will say it was soem one else. ok Good thinking on the surgery I think … have a good week.
It’s too bad Charlie was intimidated by Snowy’s size, but you never know what will do it. I’ve always wanted a dog but been intimidated by big dogs at the same time.
My fiancee and I have been looking at shelters over the past week and you’d better believe the dogs we’re looking at are in the Min. Pinscher/Dachshund size range. I’m surprised how difficult it is to join the cult of dog owners, some shelters look at me like I wasn’t taught the secret handshake at a young enough age and now it’s too late. I’ll keep looking and we’ll see how that goes.
Best of luck with your surgery and thanks for the link!
Wonderful to see Charlie see himself as happy and feeling good. What a cutty pie he is. DAP
what a great yard-is’nt it amazing what a little sun can do for the soul?
oh yeah-I almost forgot-I went to my nutritionist the other day and thought of you-she had these AWESOME, and I mean freakin’ AWESOME little chocolate snacks that were sent to her from the company that makes them-www.ococos.com. They have gotten me through my PMS like a charm-and quite honestly-I never need anything else as far as chocolate goes. They are so right on I could have cried-the chocolate flavor is so intense and REAL. You have to try them. You just have to. I got a bag from her and then ran out to Safeway and bought a bunch-they have them in the natural food section.