Update on the old dog:
He is doing very well. Got him a new bed the other day. When I went home at lunch today, he wanted to be out in my living room so I moved his bed in there. When I got home from work later, he was snuggled up with his two cat buddies. His appetite is good - back up to 3 cans of wet food a day plus some dry food. He is walking mostly on all fours now, dragging only when he gets really tired. He isn't falling down as much and when he does he is pretty much able to get back up on his own. He is still trying to crawl under the end tables, coffee tables, desks, and phone stands. He tried to crawl into the crate with the nursing mama and kittens the other day. He did crawl under my bed. How, I'm not sure, because he is too big. I had to hold the bed up while I dragged him out from under it. All I know is I heard him yelping for help and went running into my room thinking he'd fallen over onto the shoe bin again and couldn't get up. It was a weird moment - hearing him crying for help and not being able to find him. There is some obvious brain damage - this need to crawl into small spaces - but otherwise he seems like his old self. Even his head is straightening out. His head has been cocked to the right, like he's trying to look into a narrow space. The weather is cooling down too - been in the low 80s all week. I'm going to take him out on the back covered porch this weekend. He likes to smell things so I'll probably pull all the potted plants off the front porch and the back patio into the covered back porch so he can sniff them up. Might get him some other special stuff - he likes peeling avocadoes - and maybe a can of smoked oysters. Dogs don't like to eat smoked oysters but they do like to rub the smell into their fur. He needs a good bath too, so it'll be oysters first, bath last. If he can make it into the kennel, which is off the back porch, then he can sniff grass too. Otherwise, I'll bring him some clippings when I mow the lawn and trim the bushes Saturday. Oh - and some of the buds off the rose bush in front. He has always loved the outdoors. Heck, if he can get a leg up, I'll take him into the mini-forest and let him visit the trees.
School and other projects:
School is an anxious thing right now. I've only one more subject to take to be finished with this Paralegal Program. I'm anxious to be done with it as I've been at it several years now. The class is Criminal Procedure and the registrar told me yesterday that not enough people have signed up for the class so they may have to cancel it this session. Drat. I won't find out until tomorrow. The class is/was supposed to start Monday. And, of course, it isn't a class the university offers online so it wouldn't matter how many people enrolled. In a way, it would be a good thing if I took the Fall off from school. Three editors are interested in my trilogy and I'm still in the middle of the third novel with some rewrites to the first two for consistency and foreshadowing of the third story. I so want to devote next year to my time traveler series and to the murder mystery. Fall is always the best time, too, to do the major yard work living in a mini-forest requires and to give the old wood house a really good cleaning inside and air the place out before closing it up tight for the winter months. Still, I'd like to be finished with that most excellent paralegal program. After that, boss man wants me to take some classes for other things, but those are short programs - not years. I can deal with those.
