Pretty strange to walk into your bedroom late at night and this giant dog that has been living with you for many years is not laying in his normal place. Addler is not dead, he's spending the night at an emergency clinic over in Longview. There wasn't anything here open.  This clinic has opposite hours of all the surrounding vets. They are open when they rest are closed. 

Anyway....Addler came in this afternoon panting. Well yes, it was hot out there.  He looked a bit odd and he was walking a bit off, but I just thought it was the heat. It's very hot here daytime right now, over 100 degrees with very high heat indexes.  I don't like to leave him out there in this heat.  

Well, an hour passed and he was still panting.  What? The dog never pants that long, my room is very cool, he stops within a few minutes - normally.  Then came suppertime, the 8 year old fed him.  I came in and saw Addler laying on his bed and a full bowl of dog food.  That is when I knew something is wrong. He doesn't leave his food in the bowl, he consumes it until there is nothing left.  He was lethargic and he was obviously having issues.

Taylor came in and looked at him and came to the same conclusion: there is something wrong with that dog.  So, I started looking up local vets, none of them have after hours. I got on the local gossip facebook page and many of the replies were for the place I went to.  They thought he might have bloat. I didn't think so, I've seen the videos of Danes with bloat  and also the symptoms.  Well, they did x rays and nothing wrong with his stomach, it wasn't flipped over but they said his intestines are full of gas and nothing is moving through them.

I have no idea how it escaped me that he had a tumor on his butt last year and it had to be removed, but I completely forgot about it.  Until I got to a gas station.  So I just called them and they are going to check that out.  The vet that did the surgery said there might be a chance of it coming back. But, he didn't have any symptoms like this when that occurred. He was just constantly licking his butt until it caught my attention.  You know, doing something he doesn't do all the time? 

I mean, it might be something related to that so I had to call.  

I just got home. It's 11:20 pm. I'm a bit wired, trying to just chill and relax a little. I have to be back there by 6:30 am - they close at 7am, so I'm not going to get much sleep tonight but what else is new.  

It is highly likely that I will do nothing at the park tomorrow and right now, I don't even care about that.  I busted my @$$ over there today, tho.  It was hot but I got half of the pipe installed for the hot water. However, I got to the part where the pipe would have to go over where the water line underground is. I want to install a spigot there. 

So I started digging where I remembered the end of it to be.  yeah, I remembered wrong. The pic I had was from a long angle so it wasn't really showing precisely where it ended. Yup, several hours of digging later and I found the end of the pipe with the valve.  I was burning up hot. Covered in mud, dirt, sweat and feeling a wee bit - not so good, I filled the area where the valve is up with water and just said to myself, self? Come back tomorrow to finish this up.  It was late afternoon anyway.  

However....I went over to the new trailer that showed up last night and knocked on the door.  I could hear dogs in there and I heard someone telling the dogs to be quiet. That person, however, never came to the door. I eventually left.  Wasn't sure why they didn't answer but the thought occurred that me looking like some sort of bedraggled homeless person might scare a person from opening their door.  

Well, this evening some people called looking for a lot for the night but said my reservation system was trying to force them to stay 3 nights.  Huh?  I haven't had time to check that, it's been a long day and even longer night. Addler scared me, he was looking really bad.  I've never seen him look or act that way before.  

Well, they showed up, I went over there to collect the money - they paid in cash and I gave them a discount because they were in a camper truck.  You know, those big campers they put in the bed of a truck? These newer things are like mini homes.  Nice people, leaving early.  The people that came in last night are next to them, so I knocked on their door. A guy opened up, said no one was home this morning, I thought better of calling him out on that - why bother, I just want my money -  and he paid up for a week. They are only staying a few weeks for a short work assignment.  

Now, I've got a pop up camper coming in tomorrow for where this camper truck is, lol and yet another person interested in moving into the tent camping site.  I just got through with that conversation with him - writing this post and texting lol.  

Okay, fatigue is finally catching up with me and 5:30 am is going to come early.  Try to get a few hours of sleep anyway.  

 Monday - not-as-early-as-I-wanted

Just too much fitful sleep.  Not so bad I can't get out there and get stuff done, just not near as early as I wanted.  But, if I wake up and it ain't happening, it ain't happening. I went back to sleep and now it's 7:20 am. I'm going to have to start forcing myself out of bed early anyway to get used to getting up for work. So I'll start shooting for 7 am - every day - to start with and eventually move it back to 6. 

Whatever the case, I'm on my first cuppa, get a second and then get out of here. Still good hours of not-so-ridiculous heat left to be able to get stuff done.  I just really want to get the little trench done for the water line, get the line installed and get that over with.  That will take hours - at least.  I have the ditch started, it was just so hot out there the other day that I gave up on it.  

Trump.  I'm going there.  Don't really care what anyone thinks.  All of these indictments and "investigations" are being led by Trump-hating DA's and DOJ "officials".  Meanwhile, the growing amount of evidence against Biden and the inability of the media or anyone on the left to say much of anything is astounding.  But I grow weary of politics. It never changes.  One side fights against the other and it gets old reading it - I mostly don't even watch TV news outlets anymore, a bit but not much.  Today, however, will be different with Hunter Biden's close friend set to testify before Congress and some pretty incredible testimony predicted.  

I don't know where they got these predictions, but if any of it is true, it makes Joe Biden out to be compromised to the point I would call him a traitor.  We'll see. I'll have my ear buds on listening to it. 

I don't have much this morning, I've already talked myself out with current situations.  It's just time to get this stuff done, over with and behind me.  

We are under "Excessive Heat Warning" Yup.  The temps are over 100 this week for 5 days in a row, one day at 103  That's pretty warm for this area.  Must be climate change! Lol.  Oh, and let's shut down more power plants right when the highest demand for electricity is hitting us!  I think I read somewhere that they're saying this will be the hottest July on record.  People around here think that August is the hottest month - it never is. It's either June or July.  If you look at predicted temps for next month, it's hot but not near as hot as it is right now.

Interestingly, the new AC system in this house has brought the cost down by $60.  We are under the plan that keeps the price the same year round, so that is quite amazing.  

Anyway, my first cup is over with and it's not going to be more than a couple more hours before the heat starts getting up there, I need to get over there and get stuff done.

G'day