We put our dog down. After holding all the trump cards in the relationship, we were finally helpless ( Read more... )

_So_ tired. Also, let she who has not boiled a pot over cast the first amazed tone of voice.

You know you should have gone to bed earlier when you think to yourself «I should have had some caffeine at lunch - no wait, I did. Fuck.»

Tired - my alarm was set for 5 AM to get cattle feeding done & pick up Lore. Got out of bed by 5:35, was loading cattle feed by 6:30. Met Dad on the lane at 7 - at 8 he offered to feed the last 2 barns once I had the feed for them loaded. Got to Juravinski hospital at about 12:15. Got home with Lore at ~7:30 - Costco & Walmart stops (mainly ( Read more... )

There shall be energy drinks today… Lore is sleeping now, at least. My dream about Craig & Usha being held hostage by ISIS woke me up at 2:30. (Got to them with my quarterstaff by using witchery, then the ISIS fighters wanted to defect because they'd been laid off.)

Check out @JustinTrudeau's Tweet: https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/709423641377841152

Fed the cattle, then headed down to Hamilton / Burlington for Lore's knee operation. Up extremely early tomorrow morning.

Fed the cattle, got rid of accumulated dirt / seeds on the roof of the feed room (things come together there), helped shuffle the treatment augur around so Dad could weld the winch on, & graded the lane to get rid of the potholes.

More to put re: Lore surgery, but crashing.

Fed the cattle & worked on the barn so we can run a grain augur elsewhere. Transferred wheat & bedded the cattle at Mom & Dad's place. Lore got home around 8ish.

Saw the snowy owl today, and Canada geese flying north. Yesterday I saw to Canada geese going east, and a small cloud of Mayflys! Its going to be a warm year.

The dog got himself filthy in the mud this afternoon.