Life...Busy Busy

So things have been really busy for us lately again. Now that I have a chance to blog, I will. Even though Tommy and I work, there are other things we get busy with.

For the month of April, there was one night a week where the Base club does crab legs boil. So the first time we went was two weeks ago and then we went again this past week. It was so good. Not so expensive as Red Lobster but still a bit pricey and very delicious. We also went with some friends a couple weeks ago to the Base club for wing night. They serve really good wings flavored as BBQ, Hot, or Mild. They are good and cheap so it works. We have gone in the past as well.

So we are actually doing something about Duke's barking. It has been driving us nuts and we don't want his barking to make the neighbors mad. A couple weeks ago, I was like we need to do something about his barking. He constantly barks and howls and whines alot so Tommy and I looked online to see what we could do to control it. We actually had a few options. One was the spray citronella barking collar and another was the shock barking collar. Well I didn't want our first option to be the shocking collar so Tommy and I discussed it and we decided on the spray citronella barking collar. We bought it at Walmart and it actually works. The vet also suggested something like that and so that is good. We tried it for a day and noticed in a couple days there was improvement on how less Duke barked and whined. The only thing we have to do is replace the old bottle with a new spray bottle when it runs out. Everytime Duke barks, it sprays in front of him. It smells like lemons but it is a smell dogs don't like so that is the trick in helping him stop barking. It is actually funny because we will smell the lemons and hear the spray go off and see it right in front of his face. It is getting to the point where if we take off the spray collar, he doesn't attempt to bark because he still thinks it will spray in front of his face. Haha!!

So a couple days ago our air conditioning decided to stop working. It has only been blowing room temperature air and so our home was really hot. It was so hard to even be inside the house. It was hard to sleep upstairs. So we turned on all the ceiling fans in the house (a whole two that we have) haha and turned on the stand up fan in our bedroom. That didn't seem to help much so our neighbor offered to have us borrow his portable air conditioning unit until our air conditioner is fixed. We set it to 70 degress and the house cooled down. We went out for the evening and came home and the home was nice and cool. It was a little warmer upstairs but it was still cooler than it was. We were worried about our pets as well especially since we weren't there. So our landlord is going to have some maitenance air conditioning guy come out and look at it and see what needs to be done. Our neighbor had the same issue a couple days ago and he had a whole new air conditioning unit installed. We would be happy to have a new one.

So Relay for Life was last night. Tommy walked around the track at the college gym downtown. There was wood house Tommy helped his boss make yesterday before it started and that was our station where we all hung out. In our group, people sold water and made beads and sold them to make $$. Tommy wore his Relay for Life shirt. The event lasted all night but we only stayed until 10:30 p.m. We were tired and Tommy and I both had to wake up early the next morning. Tommy had a uniform inspection this morning and everything went fine. Then he had to be at work with all the other people to clean up the shop they were working at to prepare for the BIG inspection next week. That will be a big headache for Tommy and everyone because there is a lot to get prepared for a to be inspected on. The inspection lasts all week. Then after that things should go back to normal Tommy said as far as work goes.

Tommy has been working overnights and I mean his schedule is all sorts of messed up. He goes in 11 p.m. and gets off around 11 a.m. instead of the normal 7 a.m. the next morning. By the time he gets home, gets sleep and wakes up for dinner if he gets up for dinner, it is time for him to get ready for work and then go to work all over again. He has been so exhuasted lately working overnights and not getting enough sleep. I so worry about him because he started to not feel good this morning. When he usually sleeps at night, he was sleeping all night last night and had to be up this morning. So that right there makes it so hard for him.

I took Duke to the vet this morning. The vet is very happy with Duke's progess. She says he is growing well and tells me we are doing a good job at trying to train him and taking good care of him. He goes back in three weeks for his BIG appointment. He will be getting spayed. Fun Fun!! We have to do what we have to do.

So I will blog more when I have more to blog about.