Weekend Warrior

If you have created some, um imperfections, shall we say, on your hardwood floors? Do not buy a wooden furniture “repair kit” made up of various brown markers from a big box store to, um repair those “imperfections”, because no matter what the dubious promises on the package claim, the application of those pens to your floors are not going to repair the problem. They will only create new “imperfections” for you to look at obsess over. I should also suggest that if you are faced on morning with a window crawling with wasps, you should not try to use chemical weapons against them, even if those wasps are in your living room. I suggest your vacuum cleaner and one of its tube accessories to suck the little monsters out of your life. Learn from my mistakes.

If, in your panic after being faced with these stinging home invaders (and the vacuum solution has not yet occurred to you) you chose as a defensive measure , a chemical weapon, a WWD, say, a generic tile cleaner -This is a bad idea! Generic tile cleaner should not be used as your front line wasp killer no matter what manner of panic a window full of wasps in your living room may bring forth in you.

I would like to suggest to you that the bathroom cleaner is a bad idea as it was not designed as a insect repellent - no matter how poisonous it is and how strongly the makers suggest that it not be used as a refreshing beverage, you must remember that you are not asking the wasps to drink the allegedly extremely corrosive, highly poisonous chemical and the wasps know this.

You will watch the wasps ignore the allegedly extremely corrosive, highly poisonous chemical , and perhaps even bath in the allegedly extremely corrosive, highly poisonous chemical; And it may become clear to you that the only means of killing the wasps with this allegedly extremely corrosive, highly poisonous chemical, is to drown the wasps in this allegedly extremely corrosive, highly poisonous chemical because you want this bad dream over now!now!now!.

You want them dead, but this desire is tempered by your equally strong desire to make the wasps dead without actually getting within stinging distance of them. You back off to a safe distance and you give it them with both barrels! This will be messy; and should this sea of ersatz chemical weaponry happen to drip or pour from your windows onto your floors, no matter how freaked out you are by the last twenty minutes of your life, you should definitely immediately wipe up the bathroom cleaner.

And if this were to happen say, several years ago, you can no longer clean it up in a timely manor. You should find a nice carpet to cover up the imperfections or seasonally, park your Christmas tree there and stop thinking about your floor and then after holidays are over, ask others to not move the nice carpet.

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I took Dogger back to the vet on Saturday and asked her when she puts her back on antibiotics that she not put her back on pred, as Dogger does not handle it well and neither do my floors, carpet, throw rugs and bedding. I hate looking at Dogger and seeing only a walking bladder. It affects our relationship in a negative manner. The vet in addition to her antibiotics, put Dogger on enough Benadryl to stop a small horse - Which is convenient because she is about the size of a small horse. In theory, I could dose her with 75 milligrams every eight hours. In practice, I’m giving her 75 milligrams about every 12 hours. She’s pretty much been unconscious since she came home from the vet... So I went shopping. Nothing helps me work though sick Dogger issues like a bracing dose of retail therapy. I found a very healing pair of brown boots and now I feel much better about Doggers long term prognosis.