Tuesday/Wednesday October 20th & 21st, 2009

After the meeting with Sue I came back home to a still sleeping husband. I woke him up long enough to let him know I was driving into Vallarta to get my nails done. It takes ½ hour to get there, 2 hours for them to do my nails, and ½ hour to drive back (only if you don’t stop in at Wal-Mart) but of course I did so I was gone probably 4 hours, wow! At Wal-Mart I found some cough medicine, I’m right out now, then found some Pepsi on sale, got some cat food and litter a bit of yogurt and now I’m set for a while.

We were supposed to be at Mandy’s house around 3ish, She is the owner of Britannia (a club in La Cruz) and we are putting together a band to raise money for the food bank. They will play once a month at the club and all money collected will be donated to the fund. Her house is actually in Punta Esmeralda right on the beach. It actually belongs to her parents but she is living there, beautiful. A pool in the front yard, a huge veranda facing the ocean, I never went inside but wow it’s huge! We got there around 4ish, Mike was there playing the guitar, Peggy on bass, Leon on banjo and/or washboard and Ross will be playing drums. Now Leon is a hoot! He has to be at least 80 and is soooooooo much fun, he has a twinkle in his eye and wears support hose with this runners and shorts.

We left around 5:15 so we could get me home so Ross could make his meeting. I still felt crappy last night, I lounged in the pool for a while then went to lie down to watch some TV then off to sleep. The cough medicine worked better than the vicks but I was still up at 1am coughing.

It’s now 2:15 on Tuesday, Ross has just left to check with the vet to see if there is anything he can do for Big Dog. Ross’s sister Pam has graciously offered to pay for a telephone visit with an animal communicator (http://www.healingheartstrings.com/) that actually can communicate with Big Dog and maybe do a bit of Reiki on him. We have scheduled the call for 8:30 our time on Thursday, we will see how it goes. Thanks Pam. The only thing Big Dog would eat (up until just now) for the past week are raw steaks that Ross has been buying for him. He won’t touch his food but is still drinking. I woke up to pee in my bathroom this morning, a lot of it, I got it all cleaned up and was hoping it was Big dog not Gracie doing this. I just found out a couple minutes ago that it must have been Big Dog. He had gotten up had a long drink, walked outside and peed on the cement in our backyard, he was headed for the gate but couldn’t hold it. He went outside for a bit but asked to come in right away, poor Gracie she doesn’t know what is going on!
Ross has gone to talk to Juan about our trailer (will it ever sell?) go pickup Jennifer because she wants to see Big Dog and then will talk to the vet and see if he will make a house call. Big Dog won’t be able to get into the car and he is way too heavy for us to lift and there maybe something the vet can do for him.
We are off to Britannia for a rehearsal of the charity band at 5:30 and might stay for the regular band we’ll see. I’m gonna see if I can catch a few winks before Ross and Jenn get back, I’m still not feeling great yet!
Still no rehearsal for the fun charity band, we took Ross’s electric drums over to Mike’s house in La Cruz and then went to Britannia to hang out and chill. I helped Mandy (the owner of the bar) put some table clothes on the tables then ordered some fish and chips, they were great. Mandy is from England and her pub is of course an English pub with some great food on the menu. We got home at about 11ish and went to bed soon after.
Good morning, it is a very rainy Wednesday! It has been raining off and on I think all night with it coming down really hard, then letting up, then coming down hard again. Ross’s chair was all wet when we sat on the patio drinking our coffee. Not a really nice day for Tara to be arriving, she is here for a week but from Friday on it’s supposed to be really nice, kinda cloudy and rainy until then. Ross just took off to Mega to get some canned dog food for Bandit, he still isn’t eating his regular food.
I’ll say bye for now, talk to you soon!
Ross and Kim in Paradise