Happy Mare

December 8, 2009 at 4:20 pm · Filed under Daisy

Daisy has been in a really good mood the past several days.  She’s also been looking pretty nice.  Last night she was off again, but it was very cold and I’m sure that didn’t help matters.  Aside from that, we’ve been cantering more and more with each ride and we’ve been adding in little changes.  For instance, her favorite thing in the world right now is to go over poles.  We go over ground poles, walk over 18 inch jumps, and I’ll even let her trot and hop over little tiny jumps when she’s doing really well.  That seems to have cheered her up some so she’s a little more receptive to going in circles over and over, working on form.  I also started doing some simple changes of leads through the diagonal, which seems to interest her as well.  I’d like to start doing her flying changes again when she’s up for it, but I’m not going to push the issue, especially since that’s not required until third level and we aren’t even showing at first yet! 

It’s supposed to be VERY cold the next couple days so we aren’t going to be riding during that time.  The severe cold can really damage muscles and it just plain sucks anyway :)   Tonight is supposed to be LOTS of snow, but I’m still skeptical about that.  They’re saying 7-11 inches right now, but knowing how the weather reports have been wrong in the past, I’m taking it as we’ll get something and it might be bad.  After this, COLD!!!!  The lows are in the single digits after tonight so I’m sure the wind chill will put it well below zero.  My family from Texas will be visiting on Christmas Day night-that should be a shocker for them if it’s still that bad.  Last time they were here in the winter, I’m pretty sure it was in the 20’s and we had a hard time convincing them that it wasn’t too bad LOL!

Oh-one other thing was pretty cute.  Lucky moved next to Daisy again because he wasn’t really getting along with the horse he was next to.  She was just SO happy when he moved in!  She flirted with him for a good 10 minutes straight.  It was so bad that she put off eating until she was over the initial infatuation!  That’s serious stuff for her :)  

More to come soon-hopefully I’ll have some pretty pictures of snowy trees and such to put in tomorrow morning!

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Bunny Follow Up

November 30, 2009 at 7:29 am · Filed under Bandit

Well, Bunny is gone.  I went out there this morning and nothing took him, so I had to figure out what to do with him.  I went to my garbage can and found a very large dog food bag so I took the shovel and put him in there.  I guess that’s sort of ironic or something that he was put in a dog food bag….  He had a very proper garbage can burial after that.  I can’t really leave him outside any longer!! 

Bandit keeps going outside to go see if Bunny has magically reappeared somehow.  He follows the fence line to check and make sure that it’s not out there waiting for him.  He has stopped sniffing under the deck, so I’m pretty sure it was just the one rabbit down there (that’s good!!).  Also, he doesn’t seem as interested in playing outside anymore.  He goes out, sniffs for a bit, then comes back in.  It’s getting cold, so that may be part of it, but I really think he misses his buddy.  The cat has been keeping her distance, too.  I don’t know if she can smell dead rabbit on Bandit or what-he doesn’t stink at all, but you know that animals have that sixth sense-but she hasn’t been out much.  When she did come out, Bandit chased her down pretty quickly.  I’m not really sure what to do with that situation.  I guess they’re going to have to work that out amongst themselves.

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Bunny

November 29, 2009 at 3:58 pm · Filed under Bandit

Anyone who wanted to know what would happen if Bandit caught the rabbit, raise your hand!  I have an answer for you-and it’s not good news for Bunny. 

Yes, my second German Shepherd bringing me a dead bunny story.  Ugh.  This one didn’t make it into the house, thank God.  Yesterday, Bandit was screwing around in the back yard.  Bunny was getting bold enough to sit in the back corner with no real route of escape from the dogs and wait for them.   Apparantly, Bandit chased him off.  Today, something similar happened with different consequences for Bunny, though.  Bandit chased him down and nabbed him as he was trying to get away.  I think Bandit grabbed him pretty hard then let go.  I’m thinking that Bunny snapped his neck either hitting the back fence or just being jerked that hard as he was trying to get away because there was minimal blood.  There were four puncture wounds and some torn fur, but just a little blood so he must have died pretty quick.  I caught the tail end of this chase from the sliding glass door.  I couldn’t really tell what happened until Bandit paused and stared at a bush, then started carefully dragging the dead rabbit from behind the bush (it’s a small bush, so the theory of it all is feasible).  I think Bandit was pretty upset.  I was freaked out, so I opened the door immediately and yelled at him to leave the thing alone.  Bandit came charging up to the door and came in (thankfully not with the bunny in his mouth).  He walked around crying for a little bit-just little whines-because he was upset about the whole thing.  I watched the bunny for a couple minutes to see if it moved at all.  Nothing happened for several minutes so I went and got a shovel and scooped him up.  I was careful to check for breathing or movement, then I put the little guy over ther fence into my front yard so the guys can’t get him.  I’m hoping that a hawk or something comes and gets him before I have to try to figure out some other way to dispose of him.  I’m thinking about doing a little burial, but I just haven’t decided what to do yet.  Bandit is starting to come out of his mini-depression now.  He was moping around the house and sighing for a while.  He laid down and just stayed there for a while.  He was looking out the window where Bunny used to hang out and watch him, too.  Now he’s starting to relax again.  I still feel bad-I really think that after it was done, he didn’t know why the thing wasn’t moving and he was trying to carefully bring it to me to fix or just to take it out from under the bush to play with him some more.  This is what happens when you tempt fate, though, Bunny.  You were a REALLY stupud rabbit. 

So that’s the end of the story, I think.  I thought for a while that Bunny may have had a family under my deck, but Bandit doesn’t seem to interested in anything under there now, so it may have just been him the whole time.  I’m sure there’s a moral to the story here somewhere, but I don’t know how to put it.  I guess it would be something like “Never make friends with something 8 times your size with big teeth”.

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Funny Story

November 24, 2009 at 10:25 am · Filed under Dating-Online and Other, Uncategorized

I just signed up for an online dating site again because it was free and easy to do so I figured what the heck.  Then I was reminded of several not-so-great dates (and those that fortunately didn’t make it to date status) that came of other sites I had signed up for.

One such date was a guy I met-about 35 or so, divorced with kids, non-smoker, drinks socially, etc etc.  The kinds of things that were reasonable.  He said he was about 50 lbs overweight-I figured it wasn’t going to be a big deal.  We talked for a while over emails and he seemed nice enough so I agreed to meet him over at the local Buffalo Wild Wings.  I got to the BWW looking forward to meeting him, wondering what he looked like, wondering what he was going to be like, etc.  I was there a little early and it was a nice night so I waited outside.  I was leaning up against the wall next to the door, watching people go in and out and wondering which one he was when I felt the earth rumble beneath my feet in a rhythmic footstep pattern.  This hulking man came around the corner-6 foot 5 inches or so and EASILY 100 lbs overweight, he rounded the corner with a grin on his face.  Okee Dokee…..  We went inside and sat down.  He scarfed a few wings as we talked about his ex wife and what a “crazy bitch” she was.  Apparently, she came down with kidney cancer  and she was getting upset with him coming home so late every night because she needed help around the house and he was going out almost every night after work with his buddies and drinking or whatever.  After enduring an hour or two of this beast, we left.  I didn’t call back….

Another one didn’t make it to date status.  I met him on Equestrian Singles-I still remember that.  He kept emailing me, and I responded, despite my better judgement because his profile photo was HIM WITH HIS SHIRT OFF FLEXING IN A MIRROR.  Yeah….  FYI, guys-don’t do the no shirt flex in front of a mirror for your profile photo unless you’re a professional body builder or something.  This guy was not.  HE appeared to have some form to his body, but he was scrawny and not very impressive.  NOT a good first impression.  I kept the email to him short-he had emailed me and I was doing him a courtesy by emailing him back.  So his second email to me was a statement that he hoped I didn’t mind, but that’s not a picture of him in the profile.  HUH???  Actually, this is that guy’s brother-confined to a wheelchair because of MS.  OK, you know, that’s false advertising!!  I’m all for equal rights , but HELLO-you’re advertising on EQUESTRIAN SINGLES.  Do you ride??  You can’t walk!!!  Maybe in a therapy program or something, but come on!!  I’m the kind of person who is at least somewhat athletic (despite the bad back), and I want to go out and DO stuff.  This was just not appropriate.  Plus you’re starting off on a lie.  Sorry, bub.  Not happening. 

There was the guy I dated for exactly 1 week.  He owned a jewelry store.  I did half confirm that.  We went out twice-he seemed nice enough.  On our first date, we went to a coffee store on a Sunday afternoon-I didn’t realize that the coffee shop closed at 3.  My Bad.  We were having a nice conversation, so I told him that I needed to go take care of my horse and he was welcome to stop by with me.  BAD MISTAKE.  He came over-we continued a good conversation.  We parted ways.  The next day, he showed up at the stable looking for me before I got there.  Ummm OK-why??  I didnt’ hear about that until later in the week, though.  I was there the next day when he showed up AGAIN.  We talked briefly and hung out for a bit, then we made a date for that Saturday.  I was starting to get a bit creeped out because he showed up unexpectedly, but he was really nice, so we made the date.  I had a show with Daisy that Sunday, so I told him that I would have to call it early on Saturday since I had to be up at teh crack of dawn.  He was fine with that-very understanding.  He brought me a little rose plant as “good luck” for the show.  Nice.  I told him on Saturday that I didnt’ want him to come to the show because it would be too distracting since we just started dating each other.  He asked if he could see me afterwards and I said it wasnt’ a good idea-I would call him and tell him how I did.  We went to the show and it went very well.  We got back to the stable and before we even unloaded the horses, he was pulling in.  We unloaded the horses, I got ready to go-trying to brush him off and get him to leave because now I was irritated.  We were getting ready to get in the truck to drop off the horse trailer at my trainer’s house and he said, “hold on-I brought you something.”  He takes out this NASTY looking casserole on a paper plate-enough for two people, mind you.  I said thanks, took it, and bitched to Diane the whole way back to her house.  I dumped the casserole in her trash and texted him that I didn’t want to see him anymore because he was too needy and stalkerish the next day.  I found out later that he had been to the stable several times looking for me the week we were dating.

Another one was the infamous alcoholic compulsive liar who stole from me and used my credit card.  I’m still working on recovering from THAT guy.  It’s not a joke, either, and I’m not exaggerating.  Again, despite better judgement, he was with me for a year or so.  During that time, I found beer cans in the toilet, and empty beer cans around the house, including on top of an entertainment center, behind couches, under couches, behind beds, in cabinets, etc.  I broke it off with him several years ago, and I found ANOTHER few cans just this year!!!  What a sad case that was.  He couldn’t hold a job because he got caught drinking while working at every place he was hired.  He had me drop him off at a job he lost weeks before just to keep up the lie.  He actually started off with our first date at a park-he brought some beer with in his coat pockets.  He told me that his car was in the shop and his house was being repaired because it had burned down-he was living with his friend at the time we were dating.  Well, it turned out there was no car because he got busted with a DUI in a McDonald’s drive thru (how the hell do you do that???) and his house had been repossessed.  He was currently living with his mom, who desperately wanted him out of the house.  He told me that he had a job working for a private detective-he was actually a cart boy at Piggly Wiggly.  LMAO!!!  What a loser.  He still tries to call me every once in a while. 

The stories go on and on.  I’m sure I’ll think of more later to add to this :)

So anyway, am I skeptical about online dating?  Oh Yeah…  This guy I just started emailing now seems nice enough, but I’ll be doing extensive checking to make sure he’s not a felon, arsonist, compulsive liar, closet gay (that was another online dating story…..), alcoholic, or loser of any other sort.  Ugh….  Why do I put myself through this???  LMAO!!!!

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Past Week

November 22, 2009 at 8:56 am · Filed under Daisy

Like I said in the last post, it’s been a really busy week.  I actually had Monday off, but I went in for some of the day anyway. There’s so much to take care of at work!!  Monday, before I went in, I stopped by a few stores to get some groceries and such.  One of the stores I stopped at was my local Jewel.  They had a Wienermobile outside the door and I couldn’t help but go take a look :)  

There were two girls working inside the thing-I guess they just follow it around everywhere and show it off.  What a job!  I can’t imagine driving around in a big hot dog then standing outside freezing while people stare at it.  But whatever.  To each their own ;)   It was still fun-I went inside and they gave me a weenie whistle to prove I was there. LOL!!!  The inside is pretty cool-there’s several seats in red fleece material with Oscar Mayer’s logo on them, then there’s a bench seat that faces the large door.  When I went in , I could only think of the infamous crashes that these weiners have been involved in-especially the one fairly recently where someone smased one into the side of a house.  That had to be interesting. 

The rest of the week blew by as I worked my butt off.  Daisy and I had several good rides, too.  I learned a lot about my leg position and effective, but not over-, use of my reins.  It’s amazing what you can get out of one little change like using spurs!  She’s been getting a really great rhythm and has been rounding more and more, especially when she’s outside.  I don’t know if she just LIKES to be outside more or if she’s relying on me more as someone to trust so she’s listening more carefully, but it’s a night and day difference sometimes. 

Daisy also got her first haircut!!  I was scared to do it, but her ends were getting really scraggly and it was starting to get to be too much.  I trimmed her up, then I used a feathering technique that I’ve seen my hairstylist use on me :)   It came out really good!  I didn’t take off too much, but in some spots it was probably a couple inches.  The couple inches were just stray hairs for the most part, though, so no big deal.  Here’s the picture of Daisy’s first haircut (by me anyway):

Daisy's haircut

Not too bad :)   I might clean it up a bit more, but I figure that in a week, it’ll all be grown out to where you can’t tell the worst areas of it.  Again, I think I like it anyway-I may just leave it.  I cleaned up her tail, too-you can see that in the picture.  It now goes about ankle-length and is more of a straight across cut.  That seems to be what a lot of the fancy dressage horses have.  The longer the better, but that straight across cut is in style.  If I was REALLY going to do that right, I’d have to cut it to about mid leg to hock length and I just can’t do that. 

One other thing, as a stress reliever, I’ve been doing my Tae Bo videos again :)   I need the exercise anyway.  The first time I did the one, I felt it in my shoulders.  The second time I did it, I was slightly sore for about a half hour then that was it.  I might need to get a better video.  We’ll see how it goes after a few more times.  It might be better to ease back into the aerobic exercise thing again instead of jumping right into something that will make me more sore.  We’ll see how it goes. 

OK-back off to ride Daisy! 

 

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More later, but for now……

November 20, 2009 at 2:07 pm · Filed under Daisy, Uncategorized

……it’s been REALLY BUSY!!  I’ve been working constantly and riding every night.  Work is very frustrating because we’re already taking in a lot less than we were in years past and more payment cuts are on the way according to Medicare.  It sounds a lot like many cardiologists will start refusing to see Medicare patients.  I don’t blame them!  If one group of people told Jiffy Lube that they were only going to pay $10 for an oil change versus the $20 that all the other groups of people paid, Jiffy Lube would tell the first group of people to take a hike!  We aren’t like KMart where we can just slash prices on services that are sub-par, you know?  Well, whatever.  Anyway, I’m getting sick of the healthcare industry as a whole.  It’s going down the tubes.  Everyone expects top notch care and incredible service, but no one is willing to pay for it. 

On the happier side of my life, Daisy is doing pretty well with the spurs.  She is sitll a bit resistant, but I think I’m trying too hard with my hands.  I need to be more in tune with her and give fewer mixed signals.  I’m going to work on that tonight.  I had a lesson last night and I think I may have figured out another way to do just that.  I guess we’ll see tonight!

I’ll write more later on-this is just a quick update since I haven’t had a chance to write at all!  If anyone has an idea for a new career for me, let me know LOL!!!  :)

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Long Weekend!

November 15, 2009 at 7:25 pm · Filed under Bandit, Daisy, Family, Jake

Daisy was good again today-I used the spurs again and she pretty much did everything I asked without a whip.  I think that I need 2 things, though-first, a little bit longer spur.  The ones I have are pretty short.  She’s already not really listening so I’m going to have to increase the size a bit to make them a bit more intense to make her listen.  Second, I’m going to need something I can use for shows.  The cool thing about this is that they are required in the upper levels, so it’ll look like we’re a little more advanced in a strange wey :)   I’ll have to find some fancier ones, though. 

I went out for dinner last night with Kurt, Vanessa, Kellen, Vanessa’s sister and her husband, and Vanessa’s friend and her husband for Vanessa’s birthday.  Kurt wanted something alcoholic so he ordered something called “Joe’s Drink”.  Sounds manly enough.  Nope-it came in a martini glass with all sorts of fruit attached to it and it was a reddish girly drink.  he was embarrassed.  That was probably the best part of the night :)   We had some sushi, too.  I have tried it before, but only a couple times and I hadn’t had any with real seafood in it since I can’t eat fish.  We had some with crab in it and it was very good!  I’ll have to explore this sushi thing more LOL!  Kellen was adorable-laughing and smiling the whole night.  It was SOOO cute!

One thing that was really cute last night was Bandit-I was getting ready to leave and he thought he was going to come, too.  I guess he really likes going on the weekends to see his girlfriend at Mom’s house.  He was very disappointed when I made him stay home, but he survived.  He’s really doing good-last time we were at Mom’s, he let everyone pet him.  He was shy, but he did it!  I guess he’s starting to really like the attention.

Lastly, Jake’s swelling is gone completely.  I gave him some Benadryl yesterday in addition to the regular stuff he gets and it seems to have done the trick.  Either the Benadryl worked or regurgitated wheat product is already part digested and doesn’t take as long to get though LOL!  Maybe a bit of both….

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Jake is Swollen Again

November 14, 2009 at 5:51 pm · Filed under Jake

Poor Jakey :(   His leg is swollen up AGAIN.  I don’t know what he got into this time, either.  I have a feeling that while I was at work yesterday or the day before, Bandit got sick and threw up and Jake probably ate it.  Ugh.  Dogs are so dumb.  And gross.  So that’s my theory anyway-I haven’t given him anything that would make him swell up otherwise.  Jake WAS sick yesterday because he was eating something outside, but I’m not sure why.  I guess it could have something to do with that too.  Updates later on…..

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Our First Time With Spurs

November 14, 2009 at 1:12 pm · Filed under Daisy

I was watching a video on the internet the other day.  It was for some rein thing they were selling, but regardless, they had some really good points on riding and training in dressage.  One point the person made was that he never starts his young horses out with a whip because you can’t use them in upper levels so you don’t want to develop a dependency with them.  I ride Daisy with a whip almost every time I get on her.  I was thinking about that because I CAN’T use the whip when we compete in finals classes.  I found that out the hard way one year-I rode my first class, then we heard an announcement as a reminder that riders can’t bring whips into the arena for championship rides.  When I rode in that championship class, I just about died trying to get her around, but we still came in third that year :)   Anyway, I decided that I was going to ride without a whip from now on and use it as it’s supposed to be used-as a reminder if you need it.  Well, I got on yesterday and Daisy immediately realized that there was no whip.  She pretty much took it easy the whole time.  She was much more relaxed, but I could barely make her move.  We trotted around several times to prove to myself that it could be done, then we called it good because she was listening to my aids without a whip at the end.  I went and got on again today.  We went outside and she was all happy because there was no whip and she loves to be outside.  We walked around for about 10 minutes to warm up since she hadn’t been out at all today, and I quickly determined that I needed a whip.  I was laughing about it to Diane and she kind of half kiddingly said “you need spurs!” I said, “You know what?  I do!” 

So I went in my tack box and pulled out a still brand new pair of spurs I bought when I first got Lucky-about 6-7 years ago now.  Still in the package, never used.  Daisy was thinking “Holy crap!  That was the easiest ride of my life!  Walking for 10 minutes then back in for treats!”  We figured out how to get them on me (the straps barely fit me), then we brought Daisy into the indoor arena.  I wasn’t sure what was going to happen because she is pretty obstinant when it comes to new things like this-especially if these new things involve any kind of work on her part.  Diane followed me in.  I think she had a feeling she should probably be there should there be a Daisy revolt.  I hopped on and we started walking around the arena.  I’ve never personally had spurs on before, so they felt a little funny-they push back when you use them, so you can really feel when you do use them.  (for the non-horse people here, you don’t automatically use them when they are on-you position your foot and leg to use them if you need them, but if you have bad leg position like turned out toes or heels up, they’re always on)  I was pleasantly surprised that I was controlling them very well-that meant that I have decent leg position at least :)   I brushed her sides with them so she knew they were there and I saw flickers of the ears as if to say “hey now, what was that??”

Diane had me pick up a trot.  I had resistance so I spurred her.  She resisted breifly then thought better of it and went into a nice relaxed stretching trot-just like I wanted!  We warmed up for a bit then did some work.  She did beautiful circles, bent very well, and flexed just like she was supposed to.  The back was swinging and free, and she was stepping up great!  She felt a little slow, but it was just because she was so freely moving.  We went in one direction and did some spirals to work on yielding to the leg and bending through the body instead of the neck.  We spiraled the other way.  Compliments were flowing!  Diane kept praising her for doing such a wonderful job.  She was gorgeous. 

I got off and we went back in since she was so good-only a half hour ride but the whole ride felt like we had been going for an hour and were winding down.  Usually after an hour of me trying to get her to listen she will give in and do what I want, but this time she just did it.  She got an hour long massage after that-she enjoyed it so much that she was falling asleep on the crossties.  Her head was down, her eyes were almost closed, and her lip was quivering because it just felt so good.  I’ve been giving her mini massages every day before we ride and a little extra on the weekends and it has really helped her a lot-she steps up more and she doesn’t go off as bad on her back leg. 

Anyway, back to the spur thing-I was thrilled that I could manipulate the spurs correctly and use them without jabbing her constantly (which is what I thought was going to happen).  They made me more aware of where my leg was on her by pushing back at me when they were touching her, so I think they actually improved my position-Diane at one point said that my leg was over the girth where it should be and she seemed happy about that.  Happier than she should be.  Meaning that I have my toes pointed out and my leg back normally.  Now I know it isn’t TOO bad because I’ve seen videos of myself go and the pictures from the show have pretty good position, but I always have room to improve. 

I’m really hoping that this is going to improve us both and make the whip unnecessary until we train new movements.  She seemed very willing to do what she knows-including shoulder fore and haunches in plus leg yields in both directions, so I guess the whip isn’t going to be as necessary as I thought it was!  I’ll have to watch more videos and get more tips since this one worked out so well.

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Hooray!! But a little sad, too….

November 9, 2009 at 4:05 pm · Filed under Uncategorized

Last night I put my old, nasty, smelly, torn-up loveseat at the curb :)   It’s the same one that I posted a picture of a while back-Bandit has efectively destroyed it.  It was about 12 years old and it ws developing holes in the fabric from use, so he exploited one of the holes and started tearing it apart.  The arm on one side was down to the wood!!  He doesn’t destroy anything usually, so I wasn’t too pissed, but he did get a good yelling at.  Anyway, he has been working on it little by little over the past month or so.  I had pretty much resigned to sending it out to the curb piece by piece, but it was getting to be kind of nasty looking beyond what I could handle so this is it. 

I was getting ready to mow my lawn when I just happened to notice my neighbor outside putting up Christmas lights-yes, Christmas lights LOL!!  I asked him first if he felt weird putting up Christmas lights while his neighbors were mowing their lawns.  We laughed for a minute then I asked if, since he was out, he could help me move my loveseat out to the curb.  He helped me and it was out there for about an hour when I heard some noise outside.  I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but when I went past the window a little later, I saw that someone had moved the loveseat up my driveway-kind of weird.  I went out there and moved it back and it stayed there throughout the night.  It better be gone when I get home.  I emailed my garbage company and got confirmation that they take 1 large item per pickup.  Anything more than that requires special arrangements.  Now, if you have read my blog for a while, you know that after one specific day of dealing with my garbage company I have decided that 90% of the people employed there earn the company a tax credit because they hired the mentally retarded.  I don’t have a lot of faith in the company.  I’m a little nervous that I’m going to get home from work and the couch will still be at my curb.  We’ll see soon. 

If that couch is still at my curb, it will be a little upsetting, honestly.  The decision to get rid of it wasn’t easy.  When my husband, Mike, and I moved in, we bought those couches first.  I loved them and they were really pretty for a long time.  I have many pictures of me and Max laying down together on them.  Rocky and Mike are in some of the other pictures.  I have some baby pictures of Jake laying on them too.  And now I have some pictures of Bandit in his spot as well.  Now that 3 of those listed have passed away it’s a little difficult to part with the couches.  I was just looking through some pictures the other day, as a matter of fact,and I saw some of Mike sleeping with the dogs and it brought back a lot of memories.  It’ll be 10 years next August that he died, so I guess it’s a bit of a milestone. 

Aside from that, the couch was only HALF a couch now, and it smells like nothing I can humanly describe.  The musty, wet dog, dirt, whatever was outside that came in on dog fur stench is disgusting, as much as I have any attachment to that couch.  Now maybe I won’t be so embarrased to have other HUMANS in my house.  So, in a way, I’m sorry, Mike, that I have GOT to dispose of this gross heap of wood and shredded fabric that used to be a cute little starter-house loveseat, but since it’s outside, the house already smells better and at least I still have the other couch.  (That’ll be joining its counterpart in couch-heaven within the next few months, though!!)

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