Dogs, sprinklers, and boxes

The title describes my life lately! I am moved, mostly. The movers came on Sunday and took the furniture over for me. I did the rest. Well, it's not completely done yet, but it will be soon. I figure I have to check on my old house every day and spend some time here, since I have things still here. Such as the 19-year-old cat.

I realize I am having trouble with sentence structure; probably my spelling is weak too. You try sleeping under a window that the sprinklers hit at 6 am. Not only do they hit the window, but the water comes in. Don't ask how I know that. The water also goes as high as the roof. Anyone who lives in a drought area is welcome to contact my sprinkler company. I am not allowed to touch the controls.

On Monday my friend Cindy came over to help me set up the kitchen. She was clearly too tired herself to do much, so I made us some dinner and we went out on the patio. It was my first time out there, to tell the truth, thanks to a wasp nest I found the second day.

We sat down, and before we could take a bite of food, the sprinklers went off. We made a hasty decision to eat indoors.

While she was there, before we went outside to get watered, she pointed out to me that there were two young men on my patio with power tools. She asked me if I was concerned, and I said no. She finally convinced me to ask them what they were doing. They were a couple of real smartasses, and I have to say I enjoyed the repartee. They were installing the brackets for my retractable awning. They will be back tomorrow to finish up, and I need to be there. One of them used to install sprinkler systems for a living, and he and I need to have a chat.

Several times a day the dogs and I walk around the pond at the nature preserve. The preserve is about 25 yards from my front door, and I love having that. I don't even mind the Canadian geese who walk in my back yard in the mornings.

Molly is doing quite well, although I had to give her up to 6 mg of prednisone a day, when her normal dose is 1 mg. Today she has had only 3 mg and seems pretty perky. Baby seems distressed today, but maybe she wanted to walk 4 times around the pond today. They are both almost as tired as I am. I walk them about once an hour, maybe two, so they are comfy and don't have to leave any surprises for me when I leave a room. There has been only one accident so far, and I am not naming names, but Molly would never do that. Neither would I. Molly does, however, eat goose poop.

I will be back, when I get my own cable service in the condo. "Borrowed" signals are not very reliable. I am using the service in my old house right now. I just didn't want anyone to worry that anything really went wrong.

Does anyone know the phone number to call AOL? I need to make a change in my service and I can't fooking find any phone numbers. I can't stay online long enough with the, ahem, borrowed signal, to do much of anything, such as deal with the online tech help right now.

Molly wants to go home now. To our new condo. The one I got her for her seventh birthday :)