sad vs. happy ranch update

today at the ranch...

sad:

bert the fish died - he had been looking kind of puny for the past several days and this morning seemed to have trouble getting to the top of the bowl to get air - he was at the bottom of the bowl when i got home from work. :-( i can help furry things, but have no clue how to repair a failing swim bladder, which i suspect was the cause of his demise. i buried him at the base of the esperanza bush at the front entry way. he was a good fish and i hope he was happy here. i'm glad he got to come live at the ranch and give me a jerry mcguire moment as i left the agency. i'll miss him. a lot. i get attached.

apparently a storm passed through and chance (who got to be the true redheaded stepchild for a few hours) decimated the remaining screens on the windows on the back porch. not a happy discovery moment for any of us. he tried to pretend all is well, but velcro and i did not buy it. did i mention that his full name is LAST chance???

all the furniture, the hammock and chance's pink pool (perhaps inciting the screen incident) were blown off the porch into the yard and had to be retrieved and put back in their proper places. super fun dragging stuff up the hill with a sore achilles. wah. ice, advil and wine resolving.

the storm left both sage and gypsy huge muddy messes, ruined the rest of the pasture round bales and exacerbated the level of dog stinkiness. only remedies - odiorne's order tomorrow and baths for all this weekend.


happy:

said storm above left a whole inch of rain! praise all deities! everything is SO green!

it's 74 degrees outside - perfect porch weather! high tomorrow predicted in the mid 80s! in freakin' august! who knew??

the furious little cinnamon bun has merch to be purchased!!!! oh happy day! (see previous post - merch HAS been purchased.)

bea attitude revived the "therapy rhodent" concept and i now have aspirations to be the VO talent. just need to get TVH to storyboard and lovely flash and graphic designers to make it happen - at the bar. :-) fun needs to abound.

bea attitude also concepted the idea to make a video for youtube of me watching the furious little cinnamon bun - which she and i BOTH find a hialirious concept - and will find a way to make happen shortly, if only for our own entertainment. the furious little cinnamon bun is my hero.

i finally got tired of poking the armadillos in the front yard with the broom handle and growling while shuffling after them in my house shoes - so tonight i set the heelers on them. result - ROCKIN'!!!! they were quaint to see alive and scurrying around, unlike the usual roadkill position they assume, but the state of my front yard eventually made them less quaint. especially when there are 792 other acres they can go dig up right freakin' here.

heelers on dillos was AWESOME - warmed my little black heart. happiness for me and the heelers! :-) sadness for the armadillos. :-( heelers were very tenacious and cared not when the dillos rolled up into balls - continued to harass them till they unrolled and scuttled off down the road. hopefully the dillos will now go dig up the ramirez's yard. that would make me super happy. only one thing would make me happier - dillos urinate on their plants before they dig them up. :-) gawd, i love my heelers! even the redhead that ruined the screens - redemption rocks!

i've found that i made some very nice wine selections at spec's last week. yummy!

dina's back from LA and rocking the home state - always makes me feel more grounded.

work is picking up and promises to be very interesting and very hectic - two of my favorite things.

new art director that started this week (name withheld because someone might try to poach) is even more amazing than i thought they would be. i love working with stellar people and i am surrounded by them.

tomorrow is friday - saturday i get to sleep in - happiness abounds!!!

result:

happy beats sad today at the ranch - i love it when it works that way.