RazNoggle

Hi friends!

We’ve been busy this weekend getting “rid” of our critters (and plants) for the camp season.  The cat we brought to Albuquerque where she will be staying for a short time with my brother and his wife.  She will then move a little ways across town to stay with my Grandma and her dog Maggie.  Hopefully they will all get along.  Cisco (dog) we took up to Colorado to stay with Stuart’s sis.  She’s a dog lover, and they have 3 of their own.  I’m quite sure that Cisco will be spoiled by all the playmates and lovin’ that he’ll get while he’s up there.  I think that halfway through, he’s going to go stay with Stu’s parents in Chino.  There he will feast on all manner of fat things as my mom-in-law tries to fatten him up.   He’s a lean dog, and runs a LOT and she thinks he needs a bit more bulk, so he’ll have the chance to get it.  In Colorado he’ll be so busy playing with the other dogs he won’t have a chance to put on extra weight.  We’re quite sure that both of our animals will be well taken care of this summer.  We just hope they want to come home when it’s all over.   It will be nice to travel and not have to worry about having a stinky dog in the vehicle.  We have a sometimes stinky little boy and that’s enough for us, and the poor staff who will be traveling with us this summer.

It suddenly turned SUMMER here today!  Wow!  I think it got up to *90, and tomorrow will likely be hotter!  Shwew!  So to commemorate the “first day” of summer, I bought an ice cream machine and made some ice cream.  I’ve only had a tiny taste, (cook’s prerogative) and then as soon as I’m done doinking around on the computer, Stuart and I are going to dig in.   The sun is sinking, the boy is in bed, but it is still not coolin’ off much in this house.  We’ll likely sleep with the windows open tonight…. at least upstairs.  I don’t like to leave downstairs windows open.  Our swamp cooler is still “winterized” so that is no help at this point, but there are a couple ceiling fans that do at least move the air around.  I’m just very thankful that I’ll be spending a lot of the summer in the cool mountains.  I’m beginning to wonder, though, when we get back it will be Aug and that’s like the hottest month of the year!  I imagine I shall move my glider rocker under the cooler vent and just sit there and sip lemonade. At that point I’ll be 7 months pregnant and those little people in there tend to feel like a furnace!

Okay enough blather.  The lap top is making my legs hot too, so now I need to console myself with some nice frozen newly churned ice cream!

Ta ta!

Okay, so I did all that work to tell you all that I’m “moving’ my blog, and now I’ve decided not to.   My tech savvy hubby informed me that at blogspot you have a very limited space, and because we have a new stinking nice camera, the picture files are HUGE.  That being said it would quickly eat up the available space if I did photos the “easy” way, so now I’m stuck jumping through the same loops in order to post the pictures.  SO I decided to just work on my patience and continue on as I had been.  I was actually, in part, doing it for you, my readers, because I figured that you probably wanted to look at pictures more than just read my blather.  However, if that’s the case you can always just not read whats on here, and wait for the post with the pics.

I was going to write a big long blog about all the stuff I’ve been doing lately, but that will have to wait.  My hubby needs some breakfast, and I’m starving too, so I will see you all again, same raz blog, same raz time.   Toodles

Poor baby boy is havin a hard time the last couple days.   I believe it’s the terrible teething that causing it.  He’s already getting MOLARS!!  No free time between teething in this house.  He’s had some really wretched diapers, and a low grade temp since yesterday.  Today there were moments where he just seemed to be way too uncomfy.  He was putting everything he could find in his mouth to munch on, and would get frustrated if the chosen object (like a ball) wouldn’t fit!  That was actually a little humorous.  Still, I felt really bad for him this afternoon.  He got up from his nap, after not quite an hour, and had another yucky dirty diaper, but his poor little bottom is so irritated by this point that he just wails while he’s being changed.  Then his teeth really seemed to bother him, so I gave him some tylenol and his first pop cycle!  It’s one of those ones in the plastic sleeve that you push up or whatever.  Anyway, another crisis occurred when he realized this “thing” made his fingers cold.  So mommy wrapped in in a washcloth and helped him eat it.  He really got into it once he didn’t have to hold it, and I’m sure the coldness of it helped to take the edge off of the teeth pain.  Poor lad!  He’s trying to be a trooper, but there’s just so much you can take, ya know?  I gave him a bath tonight to try to help his poor bottom, but I think the water made it burn too, cause normally he loves baths, but this time he just cried and didn’t want to sit down.  I let him play “mecked” for a little bit to let it dry out before caking him with Balmex.  Hope it helps overnight.  Tomorrow we are going for a hike!!!  Stu surprised me by calling and canceling Sage and arranging for us to have a family outing!  How sweet he is!!!  Having a great man in your life really makes it wonderful!  Hope you all have as great a Friday as I plan to have.  Toodles!