Pet day

In honor of Dairy's recovery we celebrated with a trip up to Snow Mountain Ranch. There was nobody there for the second day in a row and Tarn got to go crazy. He even had Damon to beat up on not just me. Damon also a photo of the rare occurance of Tarn and Kitty sharing a couch.

After our hike we had the ability to go for a tandem ride. I tracked down my funniest outfit for the ride. Damon tracked down his. Damon's funny outfit has a purpose. By the end of our ride my funny outfit didn't keep my feet or my a$$ from hurting.

After our hike and the 24 mile bike ride then I read a magazine with Kitty.

And today I did nothing.

Dairy Monster Lives

Dairy got very sick from a bacteria infection. My mom has been nursing him back to health slowly. She probably has not slept for two nights and both nights she thought he would pass away. He probably is not out of the woods yet but the last email said:
"Dairy just ate Iams kitten pate.........and drank a whole bunch of water. He'll be fine KC.......we will leave water in several spots and food too.......he's moving around slowly...........Dad went to Target and got a huge cat food selection.........he'll be so spoiled! We need to fatten him up!"
This is so much better than some of the other emails. I guess he jumped out of bed this morning and returned to life even cleaning himself. Here's the email:
"We took a ghost to bed last night. I just felt he wouldn't make it till morning. At 11:00 he was a ghost......1:00 took a little water......was still a ghost.......at 4:30 AM he jumped off the bed!!!!!!!! He came upstairs and I got him to eat a little tuna and chicken.....used the litter box.....came down and washed himself!!!!! HE WAS A CAT AGAIN!!!!!!!! When we took him to bed he was a light as a feather............and at 4:30 he was "cat weight" again!"

I am so thankful for my Mom and Dairy.

Morals Morale and El Caminos

"...and the resident accidentally shot his friend, who was visiting when the suspects arrived, in the left arm.
The two men drove off in their El Camino, which was found a short time later about a mile to the west in the Wal-Mart parking lot off East Yakima Avenue. "

You may think this is a joke. But this is actually front page Yakima Herald. Damon called me on my way home from work after his bike ride on the Greenway. I was really excited to hear how his ride was, he was going to hand out McDonald gift certificates to the homeless people that he encounters on his ride. He said it was spooky, not a single homeless person on the Greenway. So I said maybe they were having Valentines parties at the homeless shelters. Do they do that? I like to think they do. And then I remembered, there was a shooting somewhere and they think they hid the gun on the Greenway. That explains it, the cops moved them out or they disappeared into the shanties.

Now to why we have McDonalds gift certificates. My work allocates $17.50 per employee for morale. So my boss asked us what we wanted to do. So we decided on Gift Certificates. Everyone wanted Walmart, but I wanted Safeway because I morally can't support Walmart (unless I need a big giant vat of purple powdered Gatorade - then my morals are for sale).

So my boss comes up with gift certificates splayed out like poker cards.
Which did you want?
Safeway.
Whoops, I got you McDonalds and it had to be two $10 gift cards so you owe me $2.50.
Do you want a check? (I am kidding - I thought she was joking)
Yes, but leave it blank I have to send it to human resources. (Obviously, not joking)

So that is how I paid $2.50 for my morale. My morale must be for sale along with my morals.

Everyday is Valentines

In search of spring....

I see it. It is coming soon. Tarn and I went to Snowmountain Ranch. The weather was perfect and there were lots of people up there. It is nice to see people using it. I always feel a little safer when there are people around. After that girl got murdered hiking I have been a little more cautious. When I am by myself I usually go to the Conservancy instead where there are more people. Unfortunately cars often get broken into up there. It also seems that the criminals have found Snowmountain. There was a broken down car with no tires today, at least a tow truck was picking up the car when I arrived. Soon I will be able to go to the little book which is my favorite-favorite. I am onto to the thief at the Conservancy and I think this is the year I am going to catch him. I know his car, I know his MO and I am going to catch him. (He broke our window and stole two tents, all of our camping gear, stoves, water filters, after Jeff's wedding - You can see I am still bitter!). I would share the details, but that is probably slander. Once I get the photos of my citizen's arrest then I will post. Below is Tarn waiting out the weather for a chance to go hiking.

Casper

We entertained for the first time in Yakima. That may seem wierd to everyone since I think we entertained every weekend at our house in Tacoma. But we finally felt that our house was set up in a way where we can host people, so we decided to host the friday night wine tasting. We cleaned the house. We bought different kinds of cheese, crackers, bread, wine and beer. Then part way through the day on Friday I called Chris and asked her to please help Damon get ready for the party. She agreed, but I was actually able to beat them here. Tarn went to doggie day care all day so he would be on his best behavior. He did okay, eventually he disappeared under the table and ate a paper plate. Casper attended the party in the form of a mostly wordless, almost 3 year old Ben, who likes to take many pictures of himself. Now the house definately needs to be cleaned again. Anyone want to come over so I'll be forced to clean again.

Oreo is pending adoption!

I haven't posted for awhile because nothing exciting has been happening - I mean nothing. I gave Tarn a bath this weekend at a car wash that has a little doggie booth. You have to pull a ramp down and then the dog sits on top of a table. Tarn would not cooperate and after pushing, pulling, begging - I had to climb on the table to get him up there. So Tarn is clean and he got a cheeseburger reward. We painted our fireplace. It turned out bad. Very bad. I got a little too fancy and bought special Ralph Lauren paint and glaze. There was a special brush and everything. I guess it is better then the magenta (pink) that Damon picked out. Maybe better. So if anyone needs a can of bright pink paint or Ralph Lauren faux linen it is all yours. We are definately in the winter funk. I think Damon is going to flip a lid if he can't ride his bike soon. But today we are very grateful for a shared sick day. We aren't that sick - maybe just in the head. We did like a bizzilion loads of laundry and cleaned to try to get rid of all the germs that are making a sick. Can't you hear me coughing - achoo! Somewhere along my life I stopped matching up my socks. My mom may say I never did, but I specifically remember having a conversation about how pointless and a what a waste of time it is to match your socks. Well today I matched my socks up. Only half of them still have a match. KC if you read this I have a work confirmation that leather jackets are back! Has anyone else noticed?