October Optimism

[Lavande]

Welcome back to MWO & the brand new month of October

I've missed checking in with my 'old' friends here even though nothing much is new!

Greetings to Dill, Star, Cyn, Papmom, Fly & anyone dropping by tonight.
I did chat with a few folks on Facebook while this site was offline, that was nice.

I hosted a birthday party here for YB yesterday because I'm so nice
The kids & grandkids had a good time & we had a huge bonfire to burn up a bunch of yard trimmings.

I hope everyone is OK & checks in soon!
Have a nice AF night.

Lav

[FlyAway]

A party and a bonfire with your family sounds wonderful. I'm glad to have the forum back. Have a good night all.

[Lavande]

Good Tuesday morning friends!

Hi there Fly, nice to see you once again! I guess I'll have to send Stella & a few of the girls out on a search party for the rest of the group
I did get in touch with Papmom on Facebook last night.
I hope everyone has a wonderful AF Tuesday!

Lav

[Lavande]

Good morning & Happy Hump day!

OK, I hope the rest of you sign in today ~ talking to myself is getting kind of weird, LOL.
All is well in Lav-land!

Hope to hear from you soon Papmom, Star & Dill. Hi there Fly!

[papmom3]

Whoo hoo! Papmom is back!! Hi Lav! Hi Fly! Star, Dill and Cyn please check in!
It's been a very busy few weeks for me. So as to not bore you to death with the details, I'll just recap my weekend up in Maine, but first have to go back to Sept 26th. I decided to call in sick because I just couldn't stomach the thought of going in to work and sitting there twiddling my thumbs but trying to look busy for 8 hours. I had 4 paps in the house as I was dog sitting my hoarder friend's dog while she went out to Ohio for a Berger Picard Specialty (her dog took 2nd place in Open Dog btw so now she's making plans for 2015 Westminister-actually pretty exciting!!). Anyway, it was a good thing I was home because her dog got sick and my little Loud Mouth crashed and had a kidney crisis. I was able to get him into the vet and found out the next day that his kidney values were pretty bad. I went out on Friday and picked up a bunch of food to home cook for him as he had been refusing his KD for a few days. I got some great one on one help from some people on a FB kidney dog page. They talked me off my ledge and I was able to cook up a few meals that LM actually ate. Throughout the weekend he was very lethargic although he was eating. He just wasn't my LM. I talked to the vet on Monday and she suggested I start doing sub Q fluids which I started that very night. He also got pepcid AC and I ordered some slippery elm bark from Amazon because my local health food store was out. I was freaking out because I was leaving on Thursday for Bar Harbor and my dad was supposed to take care of him and Mickey. There was no way he could take care of LM now so reluctantly I decided LM had to come with me. I was sure I would lose him on this trip. But a miracle happened Wednesday. The slippery elm bark came in and really helped calm his tummy down. That, the fluids and homecooking did the trip because Thursday morning I had my LM back!! Off to Maine we went ( my dad actually agreed to have Mickey stay at his house and they had a blast! Mickey got more walks in 5 days than he has all year!). The woman who came with me was wonderful! We got along great and were in sync on everything (what a change from July 2013 when hoarder friend and I went up to Skowhegan and shared the RV!!). It was her first rodeo at this venue and she and her dog did great! Q'd 3 out of 5 runs. DD and I had a rough Friday-0 for 5 and the last run was done in the pitch black. Saturday dawned with a misty rain that lasted all day and got steadily worse. We Q'd 2 out of 3 runs (I scratched the last run due to rain), got our Level 2 title and then went to a great pot luck put on by the club who put on the trial. Lots of singing, laughs and great food. Sunday morning the rain was torrential so we scratched the first run but then the sun came out and it was gorgeous. We went 3 for 3. Sunday nite my friend and I shared a plate of fried clams (couldn't afford the lobsta LOL!)-my first fried food since the HA. Hope my cardiologist won't yell at me tomorrow! Monday we took our time cooking breakfast and packing up. Stopped at a mutual friend's doggie day care and let the boyz run in the fenced in area for about an hour then made our way home. Long day!! It was a great weekend despite the rain and I felt really really good running the courses and catching up with agility friends. In fact I lost 3 more lbs over the weekend!! Now I'm on vacation. Haven't done much but I did resume my wogging-first time in 2 weeks except for some quick jogs around the campground. Not sure what projects I'll get done this week or what's left of it but I will be doing lots of cooking for sure!
Hope all is well with the rest of you!

[papmom3]

what happened to all our emoticons? And how come we can't put pics in our signatures anymore???

[papmom3]

Some pics from the trial:
Koby2 BH 10.5.14.jpgKoby3 BH 10.5.14.jpg

[Lavande]

Good late morning everyone!
Glad to see you back Papmom

You sure did have a fun-filled but somewhat stressful weekend. Great that everything worked out OK.
The site is still evolving so I think we just need to let it happen. All good things happen in time, right?

I'm fine, just busy with work stuff & staying out of trouble.
Hope you girls make it back Cyn, Star & Dill. Hi there Fly!

Have a great rest of the day!

Lav

[dill]

Hi Friends! I've been having a devil of a time getting back on here! I can't seem to get the password reset to work for me. Yesterday I couldn't even get email address to work for me to let them know I was having trouble. Today I did get the email to work and RJ quickly replied telling me to try a temporary password. I don't know how temporary it is, so I may be back tomorrow or maybe not! LOL! I hope to be back tho.

Unfortunately I don't have time to do anything but say a quick 'hello'. I'll try to be back later.

[Lavande]

Hey there Dill
Once you're in with the temporary password you should be able to change it to whatever you want.
Glad to see you, hope you are well!

[sashalulu]

Hey Lav, Dill, Fly and Pap. Whew, I also had a hard time getting back on , but here I am! Missed hearing about how everyone is - thx Lav for keeping me going via FB. Busy times as usual here - this memo will be quick, as I'm trying to side-step a strange tenderness/pain in the back of my skull. I think it might be time to go to bed early and shut eyes - I've been hard at computer stuff the last few days.

Hope Star is able to get back on - I look forward to catching up with everyone -- Take care all --

[sashalulu]

By the way, that post is from me - Cyntree. How the heck did my username get changed? Seriously?! Anybody know how I can change my username back to Cyntree?

[FlyAway]

Hey everyone, and Sashalulu too! I just wanted to drop by to tell you that I'm going to be gone for about 10 days hiking and relaxing on vacation. Too tired to write much, but I'm thinking of you all and wish you a wonderful, AF next couple of weeks. Peace to you all.

[SnoopyC]

This is Stargazerlily, rechristened SnoopyC. Don't ask me why, I have no idea. It has taken me days to get back on. So, glad to be back. I see Cyn has a new name too. Her new name is cooler than mine. Just working and living. Had a super busy weekend with guests, do not want to do that again soon, it was too much and then work on Monday. I have been exhausted all week with no time to relax. I know I need time to just hang out and read or watch a movie. Not do do do.

I am going to go back now and read and catch up. Has Dill been able to post? It was just impossible for me to get on, then the register site doesn't work, so not sure what is going on. Hello to Sash(CYN) Lav, Pap, Fly,and Dill.

[Lavande]

Have a safe & wonderful trip Fly!
Can't wait to hear all about your adventure