August 15, 2010

  • The Beast Returns!


    The Beast, Baron and the BIL got here about 12:30pm today (Saturday), which was earlier than I expected but it seems the BIL decided he wanted to get home after being gone almost a week (which is a bit of an exaggeration but...).  So they left his son's house early to get here at a decent time.  He hooked up the trailer and stayed just long enough to have a cup of coffee while they related the highlights of their trip to me.  They swore they hadn't had a decent cup of coffee since they had left here. 

    I let my SIL know he had left and she said he had figured it was going to take him an extra hour or so to get home because he is going to be going through a lot of bad weather.  I guess it's raining and, if he runs into high winds while hauling the trailer, he will have to slow it down or stop for a bit.  If he's like his brother, the Beast, he will just hit the gas and take his chances.    Idiots, both of them.

    That's the kind of stuff the Beast does, though, that scares the crap out of me.  I just hate it so I avoid driving with him most of the time.  Sometimes, I can't but I try not to travel with him unless absolutely necessary.  Even going to his aunt's for her 90th birthday, he is going up a day or two before I do.  I will travel with the Princess and Chewlee unless I can get *sick* and avoid going.  I hate to miss family gatherings, however, and I do love a couple of his relatives.  It's just that traveling with the Princess can be almost as scary as the Beast.  But she wants to go up after she gets off work (which would mean getting there around midnight) and driving through those mountains at night can be really terrifying.  There are some BIG dropoffs that you can't see.  But then, maybe that's not such a bad idea.    If you can't see it, they can't be there, right? 

    But, it would mean renting a motel room for the night when we got there.  There are a lot of people coming so space will be limited.  I would rather rent a room, actually.  Then, we can spend a couple hours visiting before returning on Sunday since the Princess has to work the next day.  The preschool will be closed so I will have Chewlee on that Monday (Labor Day weekend we are talking about).  I guess AT&T employees don't get it off like normal companies. 

    The Beast ate sloppy joe for dinner since the two guys had stopped for a late breakfast about a half hour before getting home.  I was glad because it meant I didn't have to worry about feeding them.  I also didn't have to make dinner.  That's always a treat.  He's now happily watching preseason football on TV (Tampa and Miami).  He can hardly wait for the regular season to start.  I will be glad when it does, too, since it keeps him occupied.

    I was right about the Beast being happy about the rain barrel.  He is tickled pink and had to go out and check it.  He says it is almost full.    That kind of shocked me until I realized that, with all the rain we had yesterday, there had to be a hell of a lot of runoff from the roof filtering into it.  In fact, I am surprised it ISN'T full.  To my way of thinking, it should have been but it couldn't have been coming down so fast that there was a lot of splashing going on that didn't make it into the small opening (it has a screen on it which would further restrict it).  But, whatever is in there made him happy.  I would sure be if I had a garden going.  That is great water for the plants.  No chemicals.

    I snuck a pot of expresso in this afternoon and found out the Beast was really enjoying it.  He said to me, *It's so nice to drink coffee that doesn't taste old or burnt.*  I just laughed.

    We were supposed to get more rain today but it missed us.  At least the weather wasn't as hot as it has been.  It only got up to 84 and, with the weather we have been having, that seemed almost balmy.  They are still predicting rain for tomorrow (Sunday) but who knows?  No one can truly predict the weather so we just have to wait and see.

    Nothing else to report.  I'll probably get to try out my earplugs tonight since the Beast and Baron are both back.  Even Baron seems happy to be home.  I guess the BIL's son has four dogs and two of them (black and white cocker spaniels) are nasty.  Took Baron a while to put the four dogs in their place because he's really patient and fairly mild tempered but he is definitely an Alpha dog.  Once he realized what the hell was going on, he set things straight without a real dog fight but not before one of the cockers bit him on his nose and drew blood.  After that, if the dog saw Baron looking at him (must have been a special look), the dog turned tail and ran to hide.  All this without Baron biting HIM.

    I think being around all those dogs made the BIL yearn for his home and his two dogs.  The Beast says that, compared to the son's dogs, the BIL's two are great dogs.    Since *I* know the two dogs, I know differently.  But, there's a lot of rivalry between them for the BIL's attention.  And he's such a jerk about handling a dog.  If it weren't for the SIL, those dogs would be totally unruly.  She is the one that can make them mind.

    Time to put this to bed for your reading pleasure (?) later.  Love you all and I hope you have a great Sunday.  Enjoy.