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Hanging by a Moment
This is my FIL’s dog, Suzie. She seriously is the sweetest dog. About a month ago, her best friend, Molly, was put to sleep (mostly blind, mostly deaf, all for her). So Suzie is now officially a very lonely dog. She used to be super quiet, as Molly was the alpha between the two. We went to Josh’s dad’s yesterday, and she was a whining and shaking and making all sorts of noises. It actually made me smile a little, because its Suzie coming out of her shell, and letting people know what she wants and needs. I think she was also happy to see Madi, her other bestest friend.
Yesterday, we went to Holton. Josh’s dad wanted Josh’s help checking out the Silverado‘s brakes. BTW: its definitely the calipers. I remember that burning metal smell from the Jimmy when its calipers locked up. Considering Josh was pretty sure the calipers haven’t ever been changed, as far as he knows (and I think his dad confirmed that, minus a brake job, several years ago), that’s a long-lasting caliper 
It also needs a new/replacement power steering pump. That’s not too bad 
The Sonoma needed one too, 
We actually spent most of the day outside. Yes, even me! Crazy right? Well, it didn’t really get that hot, and Holton had a pretty steady breeze blowing up until it was about time for us to leave 
Last night, Mark and Julie came over. Mark brought the laptop, so Julie was between us, and we were all comparing phones, Found out that the Samsung Captivate comes out THIS summer! I get to have a Samsung Android phone. Though it looks like they might not use my current charger connector though, 
Oh well, I can send those to Mom and Dad, since Dad’s Blackjack and Rugged (for work) and Mom’s Blackjack (my old one) use the same connections.
Otherwise, not much is going on in this side of the world. Fireworks for Kids have started. Started yesterday morning, continued most of the day into the night, and started at 7am, and didn’t end until about half hour ago (it’s 3:15pm right now). The parking lot looks like a bomb went off because these kids aren’t cleaning up after themselves either. The biggest kicker: none of them are past the age of 11, and are doing this with absolutely no adult supervision at all, unless you count the adults who look out their windows, or the maintenance guy they’re shooting them off in front of.
Well, I’m going to be taking some (no, I haven’t taken any yet, ), but there will be no Memorial pics for Photo Hunt today. I can’t, just can’t, go and find my pictures of Molly. Molly was Kathy’s dog. She was losing weight, barely able to walk, could barely see, if at all, couldn’t hear, and was tripping over stuff that hasn’t moved since before she was gotten from the shelter. So, she was put to sleep on Thursday. I’m not going into the drama surrounding that move (not about her being put to sleep but other stuff surrounding the decision).
Okay, I can share one picture:
This was taken a little over a year ago. Imagine those white patches on her face being much more prominent, and her fur looking very dull. That’s my last memory of her I prefer to think of her this way, though.
We’re gonna miss you Molly! You were an amazing dog!!
When Josh and I get a house, we want land. We’ve decided, and agreed on that. We’ll give up what we have to to be able to afford that.
If we do that, though, we know we’ll need a shed or two, like a DuraMax YardMate Vinyl Storage Shed 00711.We also want something for the kids to play in, much like a playhouse, but something we can convert later, when they’re older, into another shed, and if/when they have kids of their own, we’ll be able to reconvert it back.
Besides that, we’re also talking about fencing that we might need. Josh wants a decent size dog, and I’m wanting a smaller one, plus cats, . I’m thinking an invisible fence would be a good idea. He said it works on rotties, labs, and shepherds. I think it would work with the smallish dog I want, and the big dog he wants.
Oh well, we have a while before we have to worry about that.
