Thank you to the folks who've hung in there all this time! There's a ton of information in the index, so please check there for continued help and motivation.
I am making definite progress on cold food clean-out. Due to being dizzy, I didn't make it to the CSA last week so I had less fresh food on hand. By the end of the week, I had to raid the freezer a few times. I made a nice stir fry with frozen green beans plus a few leftover fresh greens, carrots, and celery.
This soup used up produce I picked up from the Farmer's Market and grocery store: onion, garlic, carrots, and celery. From the freezer, I added green peas, dehydrated sweet potato slices, and black-eyed peas. There are also a few vegan "hamish bits" in there, too, from my sampler dehydrated food order. It tastes great and I'm starting to see some open space in the freezer.My goal this week, between doctors' appointments for the dizziness, is to tackle my filing cabinets. I'd like to eliminate one of them before we move. Right now we have a total of 8 file drawers. Seven are in use, although one of those is for notebooks rather than files. If we can pick up a laptop before the final move, we might sell our computer hutch which has a file drawer in it, and I'd like to ditch the two-drawer file cabinet. So, I need to pare down the files from seven in use to five. Wish me luck!
In other news, Angel expressed her displeasure at being left behind when we went on a bike ride this morning. She doesn't care when we leave by car. She's okay when we leave by foot. But, she hates it when we both leave by bike. After breaking a couple of slats in other blinds in the front of the house, we started leaving one of them open and blocking access to the other one. This doesn't always work as she wants to see out both of them and will climb anything to do so. She really scared us the day she tipped over the heavy treadle sewing machine table. (I don't know how she avoided injury!)
Today, though, took the cake. She shredded the blind on the door. My sweetie is replacing it right now but we're not sure how to keep her from doing this the next time. Since this primarily happens when we both leave, we may have to take her with us. We can't always do back roads where it's safe to bike with her and she can't keep up with us for long, so we'll be scouring craigslist for a kennel that can fit on the back of our homemade trailer. We can't kennel or crate her at home; she freaks out about that, too. (As a rescue dog, we don't know her history but the wear on her teeth indicate chewing on kennel bars...) Anybody want a rotten dog?
7 comments:
Angel is not rotten- she just wants to go with! Good luck on finding a kennel that will work on your bike trailer!
Our dog Duke would never go in a crate, and we got him when he was a puppy. He shredded blinds like that, too. He hated to be home alone. Eventually, my dad started taking him to work all day (he's a builder) and he runs around the job site getting all the guys to pet him. He's so much happier now. When Ed and I moved off the farm, we left him with my parents because that's his home and he loves it there. I knew he'd tear apart our house if we left him home alone. To me, part of being a good dog-mommy is doing what I know is best for him, even if that means giving him away to my parents.
(I'm not suggesting you give Angel away... just telling my story!)
I love the "smile" on her face in the photo. She knows she's gonna get her way. Smart doggie! :)
Oooo naughty Angel! Does she act up if you leave her in the bedroom and then you sneak out?
Are you making a production of leaving? Do you say goodbye? Maybe you have some sort of getting ready to leave ritual that makes her anxious. I used to put my helmet on before I left the house, but then my dog learned what the helmet meant and would make a fuss. Now I put the helmet on outside.
Good luck finding something that works for you!
Rob - you're right. She hates being left home alone.
Abbie - yeah, I'm not sure she'll really take to the crate on the trailer either. That's why I'm not going to go buy a new one! She'd love to go to work with her daddie but it's against his employer's policies.
nomikins - spoiled doggies is more like it.
Beany - she spends 90% of her time during the day at the "kitty window" looking outside. That's the room we leave from so there's no way to hide the fact that we're leaving.
Michelle - we try not to, as we learned about abandonment issues with our last dog. However, my bike's in the house so it's hard to sneak out with it. All the tricks that worked with the last dog are not working with Angel. While property damage is a concern, our biggest fear is that she will hurt herself.
Thanks for the cleaning-out inspiration. It's really an ongoing struggle for me, especially since I do have a tendency to be a packrat. And my attempts to do do things like canning and gardening inevitably mean more stuff that I wouldn't otherwise have. Sometimes trying to live simply doesn't dovetail with simplifying your life, I guess.
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