Mean Green, Deaf but demonstrative

So I picked up the dogs as planned last night.  When I got home Cindy was hard at work in the garage. She decided to take on painting the interior of it, an item that has been on my to-do list for years..  Not only is she painting it, she is painting it in genuine Eagles colors per my request.  The side walls are mostly Midnight Green with the trim done in silver.  At a later time we will paint the rear wall black.  The project has turned the garage into a mess as all of the stuff the was on the shelves or propped against the walls has now been pushed to the the center of the floor, requiring the SSR to be out into the elements, something I am not a fan of.  So far I like the change, a non-Eagles fan might not feel the same. 🙂

So I was trying out the dog whistle I bought on Amazon on Nicki.  The instructions say you back out the adjustment screw until you hear a noise while you blow.  You then are supposed to turn it back in until the noise disappears.  Well I blew on it and it made noise.  I turned the adjustment all the way back in and it still was making an audible sound.  I got behind Nicki and blew on the whistle repeatedly and didn’t get a reaction although she was sound asleep at the time.  I’ll have to play with it some more.  I also found a free app for my phone that is supposed to produce dog whistle type sound waves that I will try out.

Yesterday the chickens produced the third egg of the week.  The first egg was left in the nesting box up top as we would expect.  However the last two eggs have both been laid on the ground, one under the main coop and another out in the extended run, weird.  Perhaps we will try hard boiling an egg this weekend to see how it looks inside.

So last night was not exactly a restful one.  Around 1AM I was awakened by the sound of Nicki whining.  As soon as Nicki makes noise it immediately sets Sadie into hyper mode.  I opened my eyes and see Nicki by the side of the bed staring at me.  Ok, I assumed for some reason she had to go outside to do something.  Instead when I opened the bedroom door she went right to the kitchen and started drinking a lot of water.

When she was done gulping I walked towards the slider, to see if she also had to go to the bathroom.  Nope, she made no move towards the door, instead we went straight back to the bedroom where I rolled around for awhile until I could finally fall back asleep.  Well imagine my joy when I again hear Nicki carrying on again, somewhere around 4AM this time.  Cindy was nice enough to get up with her this time.  Evidently the big drink of water at 1 translated into a big need to go pee at 4AM.  Cindy said as soon as she got off the steps into the back yard she let loose.

I’m glad Nicki let us know she had to go to the bathroom but the middle of the night thirst session that preceded it was odd and a first for me.  Having the dogs over normally means a lot of smiles and good things.  Unfortunately it typically does not mean there will be many nights of solid sleep.

If you read the blog you might know that most of my Friday nights involve grocery shopping, kale pizza and catching up on a backlog of dvr’d TV content.  Tonight will not be one of those nights.  My buddy Sean asked if Cindy and I wanted to go see the new Marvel movie, Guardians of the Universe with him and his girlfriend.  When I originally saw the first previews of the movie months ago I was not all that thrilled, it just seemed weird.  However Sean talked the movie up enough to raise my interest level.  Plus, he is a very knowledgeable comic book guy.  If he says a a comic book based movie should be good, I believe him.

After the movie we are going to grab a bite to eat somewhere and throw down a beer or two.   Due to my poor sleep last night I may be grabbing a 5 hour energy to help me stay alert throughout the evening.

The rest of the weekend will be busy.  After the garage is painted I will be reassembling, reorganizing and throwing out things in large quantities.  Of course the grass will need attention and various things will need cleaning and fixing.  I also would like to get some sort of endurance training in but lately every time I complete a hard cardio session I am being rewarded with discomfort in areas that you don’t  want to normally deal with.