Left Brain, Right Brain

The other evening I was out on the porch in the swing with Bonzo at my feet, just looking out over the meadow and relaxing, when suddenly Bonzo sat up and went, "Woof!" - which is pretty rare if you know this dog! I looked towards the woods where he was looking, and there was a deer just coming out of the trees and looking around! Bonzo gave another little woof and the deer slowly turned around and took her time going back into the woods. Jon told me that our neighbor Henry had told him that the deer were going to start coming out more and more and eating the flowers and acorns on the hill below our house.

I have seen a few cranes since we moved out here. One of them scared me half to death. I was down on the far side of the meadow looking through the grass and trees at the pond - I wanted to see if I could find the turtle I always see there - and a gigantic crane flew right up out of there where it was hidden and right over my head! They seem a lot bigger than you'd expect them to be when they are in flight - especially just a few feet away from you. I saw another one flying across the highway when I came home from work yesterday. They always seem to look like they are flying in slow motion, through molasses. It seems crazy that they can stay aloft at that speed.

I know they aren't herons because they fly with their necks way out in front of them. It looks bizarre. Makes me think about pterodacyls.

Inga called at about 7am on Wednesday morning and said she'd be in the cities by late afternoon, and would I be able to hang out? I was TOTALLY surprised (pleasantly!) and said sure! However, there was a lot going on that she had to attend to and things got a little beyond us, so we didn't end up getting together until Friday night. But that was really nice - she got to come up to the new house, see me and Jon, meet Bonzo, and just hang out and have a good old time. I let her crash in our guest room since it was pretty late by the time we finally met up, and it would be a long drive back to the friends' house in St. Paul where she had been staying on a loveseat. So I was really happy to offer up our spare bedroom. ^_^

We finished cleaning the old house today. Scrubbing, mopping, all that grand stuff. Bleh. But at least it is DONE now. The landlords there are SO hard to get a hold of, so I emailed them and said we are finishing the cleaning today, we are leaving the keys and garage door opener there, and I gave them our forwarding address and new home phone #. If I don't hear from them by the last day of this month, I'm going to call and call until I actually reach someone. No matter how eager I am to be DONE with dealing with those deadbeats, I'm not sacrificing the deposit!

Before going back to clean the old house, we dropped Bonzo off at the GROOMERS! Wheee!!! I'm so excited to see what he looks like under all that stinky moppy hair of his! I told them that they could trim him short everywhere, no feathering necessary, but that I just wanted to keep a little bit of the silky spaniel ears there. I'm going to pick him up in about an hour and I just can't WAIT to see how he looks!

Will post before-and-after pictures for SURE. This will be awesome. Too bad I can't post before-and-after SMELLS, cuz he was a stinky boy, and now he's going to smell just lovely and perfumed for at least a day or two, or until he rolls in something foul out in the meadow! LOL

( Lots of pictures of the shaggy midget dog... )
God, I can't wait until we can get his hair cut!!!
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