I’ll take you down to Chinatown.

For those of you that don’t know, Michael will be leaving on Saturday for China. He will be gone for a week. But don’t worry about me. I have two big, loud dogs, house guests coming and a neighbor who is very eager to protect the ‘hood. I’m sure it’s going to be a great experience for him. I kind of wish I could go…we’ve never been over seas before…but it didn’t work out this time. Perhaps there will be another chance. I do think it will be strange that our time difference is so opposite. We’ll just have to communicate via e-mail throughout the week…which will be ok. The dogs will go NUTS whenever he gets back.

This past weekend we had perfect fall weather and are forecasted for the same sunny, cool days this weekend. YAY! I love love love this weather. We only get it like 6 days a year, so you HAVE to soak it up while you can. The cooler weather has taught us two things.
1. We love fresh air but need screens on our doors. If you’ve been to our house you know that none of our windows open (well one in the guest room does). Every other room has doors/balconies. Which is cool, except we have a crazy amount of flies that seem to make their way inside when we open the doors. Like big flies. Which I am apparently good at catching with one hand, Karate Kid style.
2. Kona is an excellent fly catcher as well. One evening, there were 5 flies in the foyer area. Michael and I were running round the landing trying to kill all the flies and Kona was right with us. She would track them best she could then, “Snatch…smack smack smack.” (That is Kona cathing a fly and smacking her lips after she eats it). She is a gifted fly catcher.

Speaking of the dogs, I took them to the vet last week and you would have thought I was taking them to a room full of vacuum cleaners (they HATE HATE HATE the vacuum). Thank God there was slippery floors in the vet’s office. I was dragging those dogs in. Once we got in, Dixie started shaking like she was having convulsions and Kona was whining soooooo loud. Checking in was near impossible as they tried to make a break for the front door every 1.3 seconds. We also had an audience of other pet owners which made me so much more proud of the behavior of my two giant babies! After suffering the glares, eye rollings and laughter (yes people were laughing at the antics they were witnessing displayed by Kona and Dixie), we made it into the exam room where Dixie promptly jumped on the bench, hid her face in the corner, hunkered down and whined and shook. Nice. The vet came in and said, “Is she okay?” No! Look at her! She is NUTS! Kona on the other hand was trying to be Houdini and escape from the vet techs. They finally gave up and let the vet give the vaccines and I had to hold the dog down while she was on the exam table. Once she felt the little prick of a needle, she flipped out and in the chaos, a paw went down my shirt. Superb! And not at all embarrassing in front of the male vet. Oh and did I mention that my dogs shed. When they are nervous they shed even more…like you could make a fur coat out of the amount of fur we left on the floor in our wake. Sweet mother of furry dogs.

The vet gave me a suggestion for the shedding that involves breaking open fishoil capsules and putting it on their food. Hold on. I think I just threw up in my mouth. Have you ever smelled those things? Disgusting. I can’t even imagine what it is going to do to Dixie’s already stellar breath. But if it means I can take one more step in my war against dog fur in my house, I’m going to have to try it out.

Seriously, I should post a picture of the shedding taking place in our house (shouldn’t they be building a winter coat or something right now?) It’s epic.

Alright, lunch break over and back to the grind. In typical fashion, I will promise to try to post pictures soon. Gonna see if I can figure it out when Miguel is in China.

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