True life on Ledge Hill

OK, so I'm whining a lot about the snow. I know for a fact I'm not the only one. As Carol and I were settling down to sleep last night she commented that were we in December we wouldn't give it much more than a second thought. How true.

Enough of that DIP, onto another, “Our Chemical Pet” Patches. Actually, I don't think of this situation as a disaster in progress as much as a process to work through. We are now on the second medication in this journey. The first medication we tried was “Clomicalm”, pretty much strictly for separation anxiety issues. Things seemed to be going well up until three weeks into it when he pulled off what might be considered his greatest escape from the dog kennel. He slid out along between the kennel fence wall and the face of the exterior dog house, a space of about 4” (we’re talking a 55 lb dog here) after having gone over the top of a 2 ft length of 2x4 bracketed vertically on edge against the dog house to block that route. Then he had to have spent some time wiggling his way out of there as he left a lot of loose hair intertwined in the woven-wire of the kennel fencing. Then the icing on the cake – he jumped the backyard fence, so he was wandering around the outer yard when I got home, shesh! Since then we’re back to leaving him in the house as Scotia’s charge now that we give her the run of the house while we are away. We just switched Patches to a different medication “Amitriptyline HCL” in two small doses a day, which is a drug for human depression and I had to pick up as a prescription at a pharmacy. From what I looked up on the web it could take 2 or 3 weeks to build up to an effective level. So today we get home from work and he had gotten all three closet doors upstairs opened. The journey continues…

Me, Guilty?!?

Last on today’s topics is a weight loss story. When I began my program after the 1st of the year to lose weight someone at the office began a weight loss pool, which she has done for several years now and I figured since it began shortly after I got started I weighed in. It ran 14 weeks, we had to put in $14 each and 14 of us joined. The winner was chosen based on weight loss percentage. Well, I came in first at 9.71% (19 lbs loss) for $138 – 2nd was 8.26% for $39 and 3rd was 6.38% for $19. As a group we loss 90 lbs (two people did not weigh in at the end), not bad as we all could benefit from losing some weight. When I started this I wasn’t planning on losing this much weight as quickly as I did and my motivation wasn’t in the pool, I pretty much went about this the way I planned. Still working on it as I want to lose at least 6 more pounds then I’ll decide what to do from there. More on this subject latter as I figure some things out.