Life with Boose and Finch

So, to answer a few questions: Boose was born sometime between 8-9pm on Dec 19, 2007.  I was working a shift at Starbucks at the time.  He was last with us around 6pm Dec 23.  B and I went.  Ro hung out with Grandma Wanda because he was a little scared.  We were ok with Ro not seeing us crushed.  B took it hard that day, too.  Boose went peacefully with the muscle relaxant and the drug that stopped his heart.  He couldn't face me because the tech had to hold the oxygen to his nose throughout the whole time.  I got to hug him, but I couldn't hold him as he left for the same reason.  It was easy to leave, but hard to be with him.  With the oxygen, we couldn't just be left in a room with him.  It wasn't as if we wanted him to spend a moment longer in a tank to get oxygen.   Earlier the same day, B's aunt sent me a message asking if anyone wanted a Christmas puppy.  There was a little black dog dodging coyotes near h...

Caboose has been in respiratory distress for the last couple of nights. B took him to the emergency vet this morning around 1am since it kept Boose from eating, sleeping, and drinking. He wouldn’t even sit down. He would stand there with his snout upwards just trying to get enough air. I tried calming him down a few times and it would work for a little bit, but then he would start wheezing again.  When I put him in the kennel for the last time, his eyes were vacant and he didn’t want to be hugged.  B says the vet put him on oxygen right away and offered to keep him for observation even though she was convinced Boose was experiencing congestive heart failure.  So B convinced me to let him stay under observation. I called the vet around 7am to see if there was any improvement. There wasn’t. Any treatments they were doing for CHF was making his kidney situation worse and they were already shutting down. Around 2pm, the next vet did another round of tests and confirmed that e...

Ro’s nutcracker ballet turned out really well. He wanted to continue ballet lessons afterwards.  He hasn’t been having a lot of fun during the actual classes because they’ve been hard. He doesn’t have a lot of the coordination and flexibility that the other girls have since he started later in the class. The teachers noticed so he’ll be starting a pre-ballet class next year that should go a lot better. I told him that he needed to keep with it for a year, and, if he started anything in the future, he needed to keep with it for a year. I told him that boys needed to keep practicing and get stronger to hold up the girls. He responded with, “Will that be after I turn seven?” I thought it was because he wanted to be stronger for it, but he said it was because he didn’t want to do it. 🤦‍♀️  We’ll see after pre-ballet how it goes. Especially since he said he wants to do the Nutcracker ballet again. 🤷‍♀️ So far the new job has been good. Except for two days, I’ve been working compl...

I know it’s been awhile.  Ro started school and going back to daycare this week. He came come yesterday with the sniffles, had a rough night sleeping, and then woke up this morning with a fever. B and Ro took tests this morning to make sure it isn’t something to quarantine, and I have a test scheduled for tomorrow. Both B and I stayed home and have been pretty much in quarantine just in case. We probably won’t be going back to work until Tuesday. Ro is okay so far. He had one fever that went to 102 but went down quickly with Tylenol.  At least it happened on a Friday and hopefully we’ll be back in business on Monday.  I love you and miss you. 

 We woke up at a reasonable hour the next morning and decided to head to the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park section of the Redwood National Park.  It was beautiful to drive into.   By Smith River We started off with breakfast at Hiouchi Cafe.  It looks like a simple Denny's or Chubby's type diner from the outside.  The portions are similar to those chains and the menu is similar, but the quality was really good.  It was super busy.  We had to wait for seats, and we still got there before an even bigger rush.   After breakfast, we dropped into the Hiouchi Visitor's Center to get an idea of where the best quick hike would be and to buy some souvenirs.  Ro wanted to buy a bunch of different books because the covers were really pretty.  I tried to explain that they were books that we could either get from the library or there was no way he could talk me into reading a field guide on snakes from cover to cover.  I think we ...

 Originally, we were going to go straight to Mom’s house.  We found out that she had anticipated us in June and already arranged for another friend to stay with them from July 2-16. We had already claimed time for vacation from July 6-18. 🤷‍♀️ So, we decided to make a much slower family trip and just spend few of the last days at Mom’s on an air mattress instead.  We left around 7am on July 6th with a Starbucks breakfast. I tried to suggest to B that we could leave on the 5th after Ro’s Grandma Wanda’s 60th birthday on the 4th. B thought it would be a good idea to slowly pack since we picked up the rental around noon and we still needed to make sure the bikes would fit. We rented a really nice 2021 Nissan Rogue. I wish I had taken pictures of how we packed it.  We were able to fit Ro’s carseat in the middle with on seat folded down to accommodate my cargo bike upside down and B’s bike right-side up with all the tires taken off. We fit the luggage (B’s backpacking pa...

 I’ve been meaning to write this for awhile now, but it’s been daunting because July was a pretty big deal. I got your email and received the package on Friday or Saturday when we got back (the 16th or 17th, I think).  I know, the delay is on me.  I will write more soon about our trip in the next post. I love you and miss you.