Lonely for Luneta

Mamahops — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:29:45 +0000

Well, the great dog experiment 2008 was an awful failure. She is a WONDERFUL, smart, loving doggie but Jamie is allergic and we have suspicions that Sissy is also. It isn’t a mild allergy either, so after 2 nights here he bravely told the kids that she’d have to go back to the shelter and then immediately broke down in tears. We took her back yesterday and she was so excited to see all her shelter dog friends that we think she won’t even remember us. It is quiet here, no excited puppy jumping up to let you know that OH YEA! A human! And I LIKE the human! And they pet me! And give me food! And take me to the horrible place with the sand (ick!) and waves (ugh!) but I tolerate them and love them back! I can sweep the floors again and I won’t miss her smell or having to be around her constantly to housetrain her (she was almost completely there after only a couple days) but dayum, I do miss that puppy.

We’re going to try with Jesse’s first choice, a kitty, in a week, after we’re able to clean everything well enough to get rid of whatever is bothering Jamie, and see what happens.

I’m not sure what else to say, we’re all rather sad here…

I can haz pupeez?

Mamahops — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:16:34 +0000

We’re picking up a fourteen week puppy this afternoon. We’ve been helping the local animal shelter by washing puppies (honestly, I’m not exactly certain how much help the kids are) each Saturday and have talked Jamie into a doggie. AND a kitty! Jonna and Mimi have seriously cautioned us against a puppy though, so as hard as the kids have fallen for the 5 week old pupeez, they tell us it just wouldn’t be the best choice. They tell us we would do best with a 9 month old and the animal shelter folks say that the 14 week puppy we really like is Very Energetic, so we’re going to take the 14 week old for a week trial and see how she does. I wonder if daily exercise and attention will calm her down. The shelter has named her Mildred, but should we adopt her, only a Spanish name will do.

We’ve been working on the palapa little by little; I have one entire outside wall painted and am working on the back of the palapa. We have talked to one carpintero about bottom cabinets for the kitchen and a contratista about tiling the bathroom upper walls and bottom cabinets for the kitchen. We hope to get the ball rolling on those projects by next week. That meaning we’ll select a carpintero. We have no idea if/when the cabinets will actually be installed.

I’ll update later when we pick her up.

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Lonely for Luneta

I can haz pupeez?