not so much booing and hissing as barking and hissing..

ok, so..i'm a little frustrated because i had this post half done, but it didn't save, and it wouldn't publish. boo. i'm at my parent's home in buffalo, mo. but, before i left, guess where i went!? that's right, i had to stop by school to drop off some of my summer school supplies that i had taken with me that were crowding up my car!

i covered up the room as tastefully and colorfully as possible...actually i had asked a couple of girls to grab me 4 long strips of paper and of course they got one of each.

i was going to buy a baby shade for the back window, but i decided to try something else, and they now have a $218 shade. yes, creative as i may be, i took the mri films and wedged them in the back windows...i suppose it's legal. if not, i could always pretend to be a radiologist late for work, so i thought i'd read the films on the way to work...because impersonating someone is not a felony and all.

as i was driving up to missouri, i had mapped out my path thinking i might have to stop in tulsa (a little out of the way) to use the restroom because they have a petsmart, but fortunately there is a pet place in mcalester (which is almost the halfway point), and they allowed pets in. i have never seen it before, so i was quite amused..and so thankful that i bought knees of some kind of animal for the boys. that's right...knees. 

i did also get them yet another thinking toy-keeps the brain sharp-no time for alzheimer's...their lives are much too short!

 chaco didn't exactly work the lever as he was supposed to, but he figure out how to get the treat nonetheless, so i give him kudos for improvising-he is a survivor!

 when we got in the car to continue our journey, bruno got in chaco's seat, forcing chaco to get into bruno's. then bruno proceded to get out of his seat (i didn't buckle them in for that segment), and lay most of the way on the bean bag, then about an hour from our destination, bruno wanted back in his own seat and jumped in with chaco, who was looking at me with that 'what am i supposed to do now?' look. but they did just fine the rest of the trip.

one of the worst things about the trip is that all along the way through oklahoma, it is sprinkled with little towns, so i had to keep slowing down to go through the towns. quaint and adorable, but not so much when you're trying to qualify for a big race...right? regardless, we made it in record time. i may actually have qualified for the indy 500...no tellin'. i decided mom and dad don't need to know exactly how fast we were going...

i think the trip took everything out of bruno-he was exhausted. now that we've been here a couple of days, i am hoping that the dogs and cats start to get along, or at least tolerate each other. right now we're all in one room and the boys are laying quietly with scamper sleeping on the opposite side of the room. there has been quite a bit of hissing and barking, and a little bit of chasing. the cats are twice the size of the dogs, so it would probably be all cat.

and that's it for tonight-hopefully i can publish this thing!
julie

beautiful day, water bowl out...hopefully they can read!

what a beautiful day today was! went for another early walk and it was a cool 82'! beautiful and slightly overcast!

there was even a slight breeze

see that little bird on the rooftop there? pretty sure it was a mocking bird. he was dive bombing and following us across the parking lot! jerk-he is not allowed at my watering bowl.

i saw a post on a friend's fb wall about leaving out a water bowl for animals in need-ie birds. well, being on the 3rd floor, i rigged up a little bowl for birds:

we'll see if they find it or not...i may have to change it often because i'm not sure how fond birds are of simmering water...

actually due to the weather being so beautiful, i decided to fire up the mini grill and grill up some steak, portabella mushrooms and asparagus. yum-o.

thanks to gigi, i had these wonderful tongs to use-Christmas gift!

oops!

the mushrooms and the asparagus were phenomenal, but i think the steak was in the refrigerator a little too long...so i didn't eat eat-no time for food poisoning!

it was really good. bruno lay by the door and watched the entire thing.

then i got the boys thinking toys together with some of their dog food and some treats inside. bruno was great with his and eating both the food and the treats. but chaco, on the other hand...

sniffed every piece and left all of the kibble, going only for the treats...

leaving a trail behind

so, when bruno was finished with his toy, he came over and cleaned up after chacs.

then just a bit ago, i had to go to the office to send off a fax. stupid benefits office sent a certified letter stating ONCE AGAIN that they had not received the doctor information and were not going to process my fmla. well....i sent a nasty little message in the comments about how this was the 3rd time i was sending out this fax and that i even called them one time after the dr office faxed it and they said it was too soon to know if they had received it. what?? why couldn't someone get up of their bum and check the fax machine?? so i asked them to email or call me as soon as they received this fax, because i did not want to have to hand deliver it. what do you think they would do if i re-faxed it about 10 more times from different places just as a precaution...

i am also receiving the books i ordered off amazon...i know...kids books, but i was up until midnight reading book 5 of 39 clues, and it was the first thing i picked up this morning when i woke up...i am waiting for the others now. well written series!

full of adventure, geography and history!

oh, and chaco asked me to give him a haircut today, so we did a machete trim...he looks great with his short chop! his coat was starting to get long and it was bouncy when we'd go for walks and i told him it was making him look fat. he didn't think that was funny-that was when he asked for a trim.

julie