Weekend Recap: Staying In

It's Monday and back to the grind this AM. I am really hoping that this week is an improvement over last week.  I felt like I was in the twilight zone with Eric being gone most of the week. I knew it was going to be rough as we are still trying to get Beau on a schedule, but he ended up being the least of my worries. Both Hawk and Peanut had some pretty gnarly stomach issues which resulted in the house getting cleaned every day last week.....it was rough to say the least. Poor Hawk had his stomach issues on Tuesday and somehow ended up tweaking his bad leg so he was down for the count the remainder of the week.  He was feeling better on Friday and convinced his puppy letter-outer to let him swim, but I am afraid he overdid it so he was pretty pathetic all weekend. Peanut on the other hand was good to go until Wednesday when his issues started, and culminated with a trip to the vet Friday morning.  I'm happy to report that he is feeling much better, but I am not sure he's forgiven me for the gastrointestinal rest (AKA nothing to eat) the vet had him on until Sunday. All he got to eat on Saturday was rice, so by Sunday when I was able to mix in some real food he was ravenous! To be honest , it was so stinkin' hot outside I really didn't mind staying in.

I had some veggies from the garden that needed some attention before they went bad, so I did some canning on Saturday afternoon. I did my favorite Refrigerator Dill Pickles, Eric's favorite pickled okra, and tried out a new recipe for pickled banana peppers.  I'll let you know how the latter two turn out in a month or so.

The fruits...or should I say vegetables of my labor! All from our backyard garden!

I occupied my evenings with movies: Sisters, Inside Out, and Paper Towns. All great movies....what I didn't expect though was for inside out to make me tear up! I know it's a kids movie, but wow it had some stuff in there that really tugs at your heart strings!

L to R: 1) My finger doubled as a fantastic pacifier for Beau taking a nap. 2) Friday night dinner of Champions! 3) My poor sweet Hawk not feeling so hot.

Beau did his best to keep us all entertained, which was not hard to do.  That baby is a hot mess! He had me laughing all weekend. I did learn that he has a very low tolerance for sleeping in. I didn't put a movie on until after 9PM on Friday because I didn't want to be a lame-o who went to bed at 10 on a Friday, so I ended up eventually drifting off to sleep around midnight and turned off my alarm.  Little did I know that a small brown alarm would be sounding at his usual morning going outside time: 6AM. Of course after he came in, he wanted to eat, and then he wanted to play! Hawk and Peanut shared my sentiments of wanting to go back to sleep so the three of us vegged on the couch for another couple of hours while Beau transported nearly the entire contents of the toy basket to the dog bed in the living room....

King Beau and his loyal subjects

Needless to say, we were all ecstatic when Eric got home around lunchtime Sunday afternoon. We were even more ecstatic when a little storm cloud came rolling in and brought us a brief evening of relief from the heat. It was nice enough I took the little dogs on a walk to run some of Beau's excessive energy out! He was still ready to go when we came back so we played fetch in the yard for another half hour....and success! He fell fast asleep in Eric's lap when we came inside!

We capped off our Sunday evening with BLTs (BLPs for me!) and watch the Olympic Trials! I can't believe that the Olympics is just a few weeks away! I can't wait!

Here's to a cleaner, less stressful week!