Weekend Ups and Downs

Friday night at 5:00 was very rewarding to me this week. I had an extremely busy and exausting week at work; a lady I work with was on vacation in Colorado. Anyhow on a normal week during this time of year the normal document load for me is around 150... needless to say this week was a little over 500. BUSY!! So Friday evening I was extremely tired and that last thing I wanted to do was cook dinner. Cliff and i decided to head to Frilly's for some catfish.. YUMMY!!!

Saturday came early. I left to head to Prosper to meet my mom to head down to Waxahachie for Texas Reporters 3rd annual festival. What an experience. We arrive and park and then are told we have to move our car because there is a football game later in the day. We then wait for the bus and come to find out there is only ONE bus running the entire day.. So we wait for an hour chatting to others in line with us.. The festival was enjoyable and actually got one Christmas present under my sleeve. :) The wait to go back was also right at one hour but it was nice for mom and I to catch up By the time we arrived back to Prosper mom and I were both exausted and I decided to go ahead and head home to Prosper.

Around 10:15 Cutter had been acting very lethargic and was shaking. The shaking would not stop and I became concerned and Cliff soon did too. We actually called out vet at 10:45 pm and she informed Cliff of what we should look for. We checked to make sure he wasn't dehydrated - NO... We then took his temperature which read 101.9.. CHECK.. At that point we decided to go to bed and would keep a close eye on Cutter through the night. Well Cliff fell asleep and Cutter got restless again. So I went and let him outside. I then figured out by closely watching from inside that it looked like he was constipated.. Well i decided to leave him outside just in case. I set my first alarm for 2:00 am... The time came and nothing.. He was sleeping. So i went back to bed. Around 4:00 - 5:00 Cliff woke me up and i could hear Cutter whining outside our bedroom window. So Cliff being the kind one that he is, went to let him in. After opening the door Cutter came bouncing in and actually ran to grab one of his toys to play.. All we can say is business must have occured and Cutter was in relief!!!

Today we went to church.. Came home cooked chicken on the grill for lunch.. Watched the Cowboys beat the Bucaneers.. I then began a major cleaning spell.. Boy did i accomplish quite a bit.. I love the freshness of a clean house.. And nothing beats crawling in to a bed with fresh, crisp sheets. AHHHHH... Well then Cliff left for Jacksboro to go study for an exam he has tomorrow morning.

So he's gone about 30 minutes and I'm cleaning away.. Cutter appears and he runs to the backdoor.. So I let him out as normal. We not too soon afterwards I hear him barking agressively at something in the back corner of the fence. Too my surprise it is a snake. Not sure what kind, but about 2 feet and black. So i call Cliff. He decides he will turn around and come home. He wants to kill it himself.. He gets home and there is no snake.. Well low and behold he comes back! Cliff grabs his 22 and runs back there. Tries 2 times.. He thinks he got his body but the snake disappeared.. So hopefully he went to snake heaven in the near future!!! Cutter saved the day again!!!