Days 9 and 10 - It's week two!

Life is good.  We're on week two, Charlie is cruising around the yard, and everyone is getting good sleep.  Despite my best efforts at providing a world class breakfast, Charlie bit into and chewed up most of the pills this morning, spreading powered medicine around the entire pen.  His beds look like they have fake snow sprinkled about.


The house is showing some semblance of progress and potential.   Joel is coming back in a week or so to install the base boards in the kitchen, entry, dining room and living room.  Then it's time to paint!


All-stars are in full swing so it was time to leave the puppy dogs home for awhile.  To practice I went on a shopping trip Saturday with Jamie to Home Goods and Home Depot.  It sounds easy enough.  However it turned into a marathon spree that kept me away for more than half a day.  The dogs did great, and there were no problems when I got home, other than Charlie trying to jump over the kitchen half-wall in an attempt to greet me.


Sunday started easy enough.  The game was to start at 10:00 AM in La Jolla, so I needed to be at the field by 9:40 AM [ish].  It turns out that if we lose the next game is at 4:00 PM.  With a win last Wednesday we already advance to the next round - regionals.  So the morning game went well, but we lost by a few runs.  A quick run home to eat and let the puppy dogs out, and it's back to the fields.  With a win we play again Monday.  If we lose we're done for this round.  Despite some great hitting the game ended in a loss, so - woohoo! - no more baseball this week.  




Regionals start July 2, so it'll be interesting to see how a full day's work followed by a night game South of downtown will be for the dogs.  But it was a fun day regardless.  Casey had a bunch of nice plays at shortstop, and a few singles and doubles.  Always a great day to watch him play.  The girls got back today too, and already planned a sleepover for tomorrow.  They figured their dad wouldn't want them to have a sleepover the same night they returned from a week out of town, so tomorrow it is.


Now back to reality.  Time to get meds down in Charlie.  I'm running out of options.  Hot dogs and all other foods have failed me.  Time to pull out the old family secret - apothecary.  Well, not really, but the Catalans in my family have long whipped up a mighty aioli with mortar and pestle.  So it's my new attempt to get the antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs down his throat in my own little pharmacy.

Still no luck - I give up.  In the morning it'll be time to run to the store for more ideas.   Until then, with a big sleepover tomorrow, it's time to get some sleep!