Spent the day workign in the garage today keeping an eye on CHai. She’s so much better now. SHe can get up and walk around.. and she’s eating and drinking.. she’s still dizzy.. but shes wagging her tail

 

 

this has been my garage office for the last 2 days.. nice working out there.. ..

 

Gabe and Rya spent the afternoon packing for the trip out to Portland.. heyve got everything down to a system 

 

around 6 Raya’s mom, her bf Jack and his son M came over for a send off dinner.. We wanted to make sure Gabe and Raya had lots of home cooking in them 

 

Jack made steak kabobs

 

diane made cuke salad form the garden 

 

wendy made zuchinni fritters from her garden 

 

diane made pesto from our garden 

 

and foccacia

 

and wendy made gaspacho 

 

diane grilled fennel from our garden 

 

yum..!!>. it was a beutiful night to eat outside . We sat there for a good long time soaking in eachothers company.. it was really nice 

 

 

dinae made frozen Almond mil ice cream for desert 

 

then we tried gabes home made sake.. .. interesting !

 

tomorrow  Gabe and Raya leave early,. so I’m going to head  up to bed now.. 

nite all, nite sam

-me

today I’ve learned more than I ever waned to know about ‘Old Dog Syndrome’ or canine idiopathic vestibular syndrome… 

Last  night our older  dog Chai (14.5 years) .. one of my best friends ever… was starting to climb the stairs.. when she fell over. in the floor ..  few minutes later she fell into the fridge and really splayed her hind legs.. I could tell she was confused.. but she limped over to her bed and fell asleep. I sat with her until abot 1:30 as I blogged and she seemed ok..   This morning at 6 we woke to hear her struggling to stand.. We went down stairs and she was struggling to stand.. and very confused about what was going on. I carried her outside.. adn she staggered around like a drunken sailor.. she kept veering to the right. her head was swung way over.. and she kept falling..

 

She’s a healthy dog.. and regurlalry runs with us.. she’d run 2 miles with me yesterday..  but.. it looked bad.. real bad.. we figures she’d had a stroke. We got her comfortable and sat with her  until the vet was open. we carried her in thinkign that this was going to be not good news..

Instead.. we learned that what she has is ‘Old Dog Syndrome’ .. or canine idiopathic vestibular syndrome…  is  transient disturbance of a dogs vestibular system..its very common  It gives them wicked bad vertigo.. the room seems like its spin.. the dog cant walk well.. and is too nauseous to eat or drink..

the good news it almost always goes away in a couple of days.. 

 

I sat with chai all day and helped her walk, talked to  her.. and slept beside her

  

it was fun, sad and slow 

she’s already gettign better..

Let’s see how tomorrow goes

 

I really  love my dogs.. 

 

nite all. nite sam

-0me

 

Late  !.. 1:40 AM.. gotta make this quick. 

   Nice day today with a great visit from our good friend Colin .. The diner with Gabe and Raya before droppign them at the Ween show on the waterfront.

 

finally  caught up tonight on the 600 picture back clog fro the last week. Please check out those entries here

• Thursday night (delayed) – Time capsule !
• Friday Night (delayed post) – Sesquicentennial !
• Saturday night (delayed post) – FLoatapalooza

Busy, busy weekend !.. need to sleep !

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

11 PM… Sitting outside under a full moon waiting for the dogs to come in. Long fun day. I’m too sleepy to be able to put in the hundreds of pictures I’ve taken over the last three days. I promise I’ll do it tomorrow.

Big event today was The annual floatapalloza. It’s an annual event when three or 400 barely dressed people jump on anything that floats and go down the winooski river from our house to Richmond. The float takes about four hours and involves lots of fun partying.

As in the last two years our yard is the staging ground where people inflate their various unicorns, rubber ducky’s, camels, inner tubes etc. It’s fun and chaotic.

Will post some great pictures tomorrow.

Later this evening we went to our dear friend Mason’s 30th birthday. It was the first time we got to see the house that he’s basically built from scratch. It was a great gathering. Got pictures of that too

Right now I cannot keep my eyes open.

Night all -night Sam
– me