My work pal, Vickey, just got a new puppy. Charlotte is a Cavachon, half King Charles Spaniel and half Bichon Frise.
Charlotte and Vickey came by on Sunday – mainly so Vickey and I could go out to lunch, but also so we could play Charlotte. Charlotte is not yet 100% housebroken, so when we left the house, we crated Charlotte in one of Ruby’s old crates. I think Ruby thought it was strange that she was on the outside and someone else was on the inside.
“On the eve of his receiving the nation’s highest civilian honor, poll results released this afternoon show that a majority of Americans have a favorable view of Senator Edward M. Kennedy”, Boston Globe reported.
No wonder, all these big city newspapers are all in deep trouble, financially 🙂
We were driving down the freeway the other day and saw a glimpse of our future – a fully loaded Toyota Sienna with bikes packed on top…
While Vince was in NY and Edda and I were camping out at Johns Hopkins eating mac ‘n cheese, Jeremy had a chance to be a bachelor for a few nights. He told me that it was pretty weird to be in a house which was completely silent all the time. He spent some time in the evening fixing our many bicycles which always seem to need fixing. The garage no longer houses any cars – only 6 bicycles…
EKG:
pH probe:
Ahhh, asleep:
My small moment of triumph, after many years of inconsistent potty training (which is still ongoing), Edda managed to pee into the collector bucket that I put in the toilet for a urine sample. Hooray for us! You have to celebrate the little things in life.
On Sunday (8/2), Jeremy, Edda, Ruby and I got into the car without the Vince-meister and headed to Baltimore where Jeremy dropped me and Edda off at the Ronald McDonald house.
It’s a very nice place, they gave us all a tour – (including Ruby who the director of the house decided was going on the tour as a service dog so she didn’t have to stay in the hot car). People stay in the house for as long as three months at a time while undergoing treatments at Johns Hopkins. Thankfully, we were only staying 1 night. There were volunteers who served us pizza and we went to bed watching Legally Blonde. Jeremy left right before the pizza to head home and get back to work the next day.
The next day, we checked into the hospital for three days to do the 2nd half (we did the first half two years ago) of a Rett study (Pathonegenisis of Rett Syndrome with Dr. Naidu). Look it’s just like House – doctors all taking about Very Important Things.
Here’s our bed (I slept here too. Sigh.)
He made it home OK! Thank you Kiki, Kappa and Emy!
Vince is coming home from Kiki and Kappa’s today! Jeremy’s on his way to the airport and Emy and Bob are just about to put Vince on a plane. Vince, the intrepid traveler, flying by himself – he’s not afraid of turbulence, he’s just really, really scared about the flush of the airplane toilet.
OK, to continue our vacation story – on Saturday (8/1) we celebrated Tivoli day by seeing Emy’s awesome new apartment – high ceilings, hardwood floors, big windows and right in town…
Emy needs to set up a natural light photo studio in her apartment:
Friday night, after we reached Bard, I wanted to see a new art installation called The Parliament of Reality. It’s a little island which is surrounded by a moat. I always love art that has water.
The crazy bridge:
Resting on a rock:
Ruby decided to swim in the art (and Vince too almost):
Ruby getting busted by Gilbert – the trusty Bard security guard. Bob is making up excuses. Hee hee – we always get busted for swimming in the art.
We’ve been out and about the past five or six days – so blog posting has been light. I had limited access to a computer, it felt like I was living in 1992. I’ll update what we did over the next week or so, because for the next 10 days, I have to catch up on the butt load of work I’ve neglected by taking days off and there will be no interesting pictures except ones of me sitting in front of a computer.
This week, Vince is staying up at Kiki and Kappa’s house. We spent Friday (7/31) driving up to the Hudson Valley, NY. There is no better way to spend a road trip than noshing on junk food (I guess.) I like this photo not only because Vince is being nice, but also because you can see Jeremy in the rear window looking all “concerned”.
