Scary Morning

Good morning…actually a very scary morning.  It’s 4:30 a.m. and the Mister came downstairs at 4:20 only to hear a “Clicking” sound coming from the kitchen. The gas burner was on under the cast iron griddle.  The “clicking” was from the burner being in the “Light” position…and yes the fire was blazing.  The bananas next to the stove are black and burned three quarters of the way down, the pam spray was next to the open flame as well and fortunately did not explode.  We had chocolate bars on the counter for Friday Night Fondu…it’s a bit on the fondu side already.  What happened you wonder?  Well, the lab with the doggie eating disorder sniffed out the cornbread muffins that I left on the griddle.  She must have come down only on hour of two before the Mister…anymore time and there very well could have been a family tragedy.  Our ever hungry Labrador must have jumped up, had a snack and on her way down pushed in and turned the knob slightly the igniting the burner!  Luckily, somehow the burner lit, or the house would have been filled with gas.  Luckily, the fire was burning only 1-2 hours or we would be toast.  Luckily, God was watching out for us and the Mister got up a little earlier than usual.  Now, for that darn dog.  We are going to have to lock her up at night, or make sure there is not even a crumb to be found anywhere near the stove.  Most of you probably already do this, but we will have to change our ways.

Now to the big dog….Yesterday morning, our Malamute decided to “Mark” what he thinks should be his territory.  I hadn’t made our bed yet and he snuck upstairs and lifted his leg on the duvet covering our goose down comforter.  He soaked the duvet and the comforter.  I washed the duvet in hot and we were going to take the comforter to the dry cleaner, but it was an old comforter and we didn’t think any amount of cleaning…chemical or otherwise was going to get it clean. The Mister went to Bed Bath and Beyond to purchase a new down comforter with the 20% coupon and a store credit we had.  So, one dog is trying to kill us and one dog is costing us $$$.

I had the injections yesterday and upon the Mister’s suggestion I asked if I could have the procedure with local anesthesia instead of being fully sedated.  The Doc said, “Yes, if I thought I could hold still once I was in position.”  Absolutely, I could hold still if it meant not going under.  I seem to lose a bit of memory each time I have been “Under” and really  I want to keep the memories I have.  I think my headache is better…and if not, I am going to brainwash myself into being headache free.

We have 200 cases of wine being delivered today.  The Mister and Grandma’s helper are going to unload the wine.  We have to ship out quite a bit of the vino on Monday…so..our house will be adorned with cases of wine….at least we still have a house to adorn.

The youngest is up…5:00 a.m.  He was heading into our room, but it wasn’t occupied, so down he came.  He had a play date after school and the oldest stayed home with us all day.  The oldest had such a sore throat that he couldn’t talk and a nasty cough to go along with it.  Poor little dude. I hope he feels better this morning.

Well we have a lot to do today to prepare for the wine.  The Mister has the garage clean…now it’s time to make room in the house.

Love to all…

Thank you God for watching over us….

God Bless,

LLF