Saturday was a stupendous spring day. It was the type of spring day that the weather was perfect, not much wind and you were glad to be alive. A day like that always makes me think of Central College and walking through Peace Mall by Gaass Hall (when it was a boys only dorm). ALL the windows of Gaass Hall would be open and stereos would be BLASTING music - on a day like that at Central you knew spring had arrived.
After I did my normal Saturday morning errands I decided Butler and I would spend a little time outside in the backyard picking up branches - ok I picked up the branches and Butler supervised. I filled a lawn bag to the max with branches and put it curbside last night to be picked up today. Well - with the wind and rain we had last night - when I looked out at the backyard this morning it didn't look like I had picked up any branches. Oh well, exercise for me (bending down to pick up the branches).
Yesterday was a very warm day - in the high 80's here. I didn't want to turn the air conditioner on in the house yet so I opened the upstairs windows and turned on the floor fan on high but it still got to 85 degrees upstairs during the afternoon. When you sit in the fan you don't realize how warm it truly is up here but Butler could feel it and he started to have problems. I moved us downstairs where it was a lot cooler for the rest of the NASCAR race to cool Butler down and it helped but he was not himself the rest of the evening. And of course I worried (and cried) about him - and said a prayer or two.
This morning he didn't seem to be doing much better and didn't jump on the bed for my devotion time like he had been doing since I quit working - so I picked him up to put him next to me on the bed. And he just laid there. No head bumping to be pet or anything. I had another tearful prayer with God asking Him to please help Butler feel better. I know I won't have Butler forever but the thought of losing him now is almost too much for me. Thankfully later on this morning Butler started to perk up and after doing his duty outside when I gave him a cheese cracker to eat he became "Jaws" and almost took my fingers off trying to get the cracker to eat it - a very good sign for me.
I don't know if these two links will work or not - if they don't - be sure to copy and paste them in your browser so you can check these videos out.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/ on it's home page you should see the video: Dog Sees Mom Just Home From Afghanistan. Another awesome reunion of a soldier and her dog. The dog is old (check out how white Molly's face is) and turn up the volume to hear Molly's noises of happiness to see her Mom.
www.wimp.com/sheeplight is a hysterical video of what bored Irish sheep herders do with their time.
The last video I wasn't able to find the path to it, so I was only able to share it on my Facebook page of a cat drinking water in an "interesting" way. Even if you don't like cats you'll laugh at this weird feline.
Time to search for jobs..........................
