Got Gas? Groceries? Dog Food?

My husband went to work this morning then returned shortly afterwards. Coming through the door in a bit of a hurry as he grabbed the keys to our pathfinder. When I turned to question his quick lunge for the keys he briefly explained..."The city is running out of gas, we need our cars gassed up." He then rushed out the door. Upon his return home he described the crazy chaotic scene at the gas station. Problem is gas trucks can't get into the city to make their deliveries so the city is running out of gas.

Similar issues are present at grocery stores in our area. The produce and dairy sections have the most empty spots. No green beans or zucchini...I almost cried! Cody will cry tonight too. As he's a big time green bean fan. When I'm cooking green beans he's in the kitchen.

Last time I was at Petsmart I didn't realize Cody was low on food. Went back today and once again "Due to Hurricane Harvey we are still waiting on our delivery of this brand" is what the sign in front of Cody's brand of food read. I will try again tomorrow or Saturday to get Cody's food. Piper is good on food, so no worry for her. I think Cody has enough to make it until Saturday. Fingers-crossed!

I think the gas situation is the most crucial. As for food, there's a lot of choices, even if you can't get one type of food maybe another is available...that goes for us humans and little Cody-man. He may have to deal without green beans and his typical brand of food. Oh the effects of Harvey! Cody shakes his paw at Harvey, while mumbling under his breath!  And yes, I'm sure what we are dealing with is very small compared to what a lot of people in certain areas of Houston that have lost nearly everything are dealing with. We can deal with it!

Time To Post

What can I say?...life gets busy! Time for a post. Actually overdue for a post.

Yesterday Cody and I made a trip to Petsmart to donate to the Houston pets. Cody donated a bag of dog food and on behalf of his little cat-sister he donated a bag of cat food too. He also directed me as to which toys he was willing to give up, so we took a few toys with us to throw in the box to be sent to Houston. After hurricanes and tornadoes animal shelters are in major need and are very overcrowded. People may evacuate but leave behind their animals, sadly. Safe to say, I'd never do that! Cody and Piper would be riding shotgun if there was ever a need to evacuate.

No Cowboys-Texans game tomorrow night. It was first moved from Houston to Arlington but this morning it was canceled. My husband is a little disappointed. He was looking forward to watching something other than Hurricane coverage on TV tomorrow night. Although the US Open started on Monday so he gets a nice distraction with it. :) 

In other non-news, Piper has discovered a new hiding spot in our place. Man, is she hard to get to when in that spot too. Cats love to make their human parents look for them. Dogs are not like that. You call for your dog, he/she comes running. I like that! That being said if your dog can still hear. Cats, however, love to make you look for them. It's a game to a cat. The other morning I spent way too much time looking for Piper. Finally realized she's getting into the space between the wall and TV stand. It's perfectly sized for my little stinker! LOL!

Who Are You?

Hurricane Harvey is on it's way. I'm well informed thanks to my advanced weather app on my phone. Trust me if you live in Texas and you walk dogs, you need a fancy weather app on your phone. Anyway, earlier this afternoon my weather app started going crazy sending me the latest weather reports on Hurricane Harvey. We've already had quite a bit of rain this week and thanks to Harvey more is coming. There are two ponds at this complex and I noticed how full they both are when I walked Cody this morning.

Speaking of Cody and the wet weather, the last two mornings little Cody has been forced to do his morning walk in the rain. Terribly sad, I know. We've been lucky though, it's been raining but not bad enough to not go on the walk. But don't ask Cody his opinion on how bad the rain has been. Anyway, there I am walking Cody along yesterday morning when I couldn't help noticing these 3 things:

-There's no pulling on the leash!
-There's no pug digging his heels into the ground refusing to go.
-There's no pug scoffing in disbelief that the weather dares to get him wet.

I turned around and looked him over real good. Then said to him, "Who are you? Where's my Cody?" I then thought to myself, "it's like I'm walking Simon not Cody." As a matter of fact if I didn't know any better I'd believe Simon has been on the last two morning walks not Cody. Simon was easy-going, nothing fazed him. Nothing! Rain, sunshine, 20 degrees, 110 degrees...he was up for anything. Cody's not like that. Cody believes it should be 85 degrees, sunny, and never rain every day of his life. :) Perhaps, Cody has turned over a new leaf, he's decided to enjoy the rain! LOL!

Ways Of A Cat

 

 

She might not be as vocal as her predecessor was but she is just as loving. She's what I would call tender loving. Every morning as I stand near the table checking the weather on my phone before taking Cody out for his walk, I feel the sweet little paw of my cat-daughter on my foot. It's a nice ritual she has developed. Yes, there have been times she's startled me. But by now I'm used to the ways of a cat. She also likes more active play with her human-daddy's foot. Videos below demonstrate that active play. 

 

Last time I was at Petsmart as I was checking out I was asked what kind of pet I have. I promptly stated a pug and a cat. The next question posed to me was whether or not I got a "good cat or a bad one"? I proudly stated she's a "good one". The Petsmart employee then told me, I got lucky. So I guess we got lucky or Piper had some good training along the way. She's a sweet girl. It is an EXTREME rarity for her to get in trouble.  Hmm, whom else was like that, never got in trouble....

 

 

 

 

 

Stuck

Cody, oh Cody! Life with Cody is always interesting. He's got quite the personality and he gets himself into some interesting situations. The other night he definitely got himself into a bit of a jam.

There we were sitting in our living room enjoying live tennis action from Cincinnati, I got up to dole out the treats to the pets at their evening treat time. Cody is so used to his evening treat time there's no way he'd let me forget. Piper's just as, shall I say, "demanding". LOL! A few minutes later I hear Cody whine. Now let me remind the world, Cody is the most vocal in our household. It used to be Storm but she passed the torch to Cody. He whines so much it's hard to detect when the whine is meaningful and when it's only for dramatic affect. Couple minutes later I hear another whine from Cody, the second whine was followed up by a third whine with little time between. I noticed the third whine sounded more urgent. Next I sprang to my feet and started to walk towards our kitchen where I last knew Cody to be as he munched on his treat, on my way I hear Cody whine again. At that point I look down and off to the side where Piper's tunnel system is, I quickly spot Cody stuck in the tunnel. Oh my!

I comment to Brad that Cody's stuck then add the lovely question of, "how are we going to get him out?" Cody-man doesn't hear well enough to take a command to walk towards us thru the tunnel. Brad immediately thinks to take the tunnel system apart. But before taking Piper's tunnel apart I realized I can get my arms pretty far into a portion of the tunnel. So there I am down on my hands and knees trying to grab Cody then pull him backwards out of the tunnel. Now here's the thing...this is Cody! He is dramatic! So he was not at all calm during this process. In fact as soon as help was on the scene he seemed to freak out more, his whine turned to panic super fast. Therefore, trying to get him to stay calm and keep his limbs from being "scarecrow" like was the hardest part. Within a couple minutes, which likely seemed like hours to Cody, he was a free pug. Meanwhile, Brad stands over the scene completely cracking up over the latest predicament of Code-man!

I'm still confused how he got in the tunnel? Why he walked into the tunnel? He's not small enough to walk thru it with ease. We were a little too panicked as well though to snap a photo of stuck Cody. But he's likely glad his moment of panic wasn't photographed! LOL!


Well being stuck in Piper's tunnel system isn't completely new...there was another little man that got stuck once too. However, he was stuck only in the cube section, it was before the tunnels were added to the cube to create quite the tunnel system for a lively cat. Simon was in pursuit of a rawhide, he didn't care he got stuck in the cube. The first video is a little blurry, but you can still see things. The second video is more clear. Notice the little cat-sister surveying what her bro is doing in her cube.

 

 

 

 

Quick Snap Sunday

Donut Bed Lounging!

 

Look at this sweet duo lounging around on a Sunday morning. It was a rainy Sunday morning. It was a raining Saturday night too. Cody has lost most of his hearing however, the storm that rolled through our area of the world he heard just fine. Piper's laying on Simon's old blanket which she now can't live without as Cody lays next to her in an upside down donut bed. His doing on that one! He has a new thing, he uses his head to flip the beds. Sticks his head just under the edge of the bed then brings it up until he flips it.

 

It's not only the fur-babies that have been lounging, their human parents have been lounging too. We had company over last night, the get-together didn't conclude until 3:30 in the morning. It was a sports watching night with one of Brad's best buddies. We all started watching tennis live from Canada in the afternoon then moved onto the Cowboys game in the evening and at midnight guess what came on in Texas....the Cardinals game. Clearly the Cardinals game was tape delayed but we all still sat there watching it like it was a live game. It's been a good weekend. Cody could have done without the rain and especially could have done without walking in the light rain this morning but otherwise both furries have enjoyed their weekend too. :)

Sold!

As regular readers of this blog might remember some months ago I mentioned that Brad's property he works at and we live at has been up for sale. It's sold now! This past Tuesday the staff was informed of the sale. I was instantly eager to hear what does this mean exactly? Does the new company have a staff ready to come in and take over? How fast will the transition from old company to new company occur?

Here's what is known at this point. The property has been sold to a very small company. The new company does not have a staff to bring in. They are hoping to retain the entire staff that is currently here. However, the complete sell of the property is expected to take a little time. Brad estimates the new company will fully takeover the property around the last week of September or the first week of October. That's only an estimate....who knows!

So it appears Brad will have a choice...stay or go? The property management company that he currently works for wants to retain the staff too. His current company has mentioned moving the entire staff to a new location. We'll see what he decides. I don't think he'll be forced to make a choice until late September. Stay tuned!

I think some people might be a little confused how all this works. Some people might be thinking to themselves...Didn't Brad just start working at this complex at the beginning of the year, how come it's already up for sale? Let me break it down a little further. Brad works for a property management company that was contracted to manage this property for a private owner. He is an employee of the management company not the private owner. If the private owner decides to sell the property then the rug kind of gets pulled out from under the property management company's feet. Get it? Brad will still have a job with his property management company but he'll have to be willing to go wherever they want to move him. So stay or go....those are the choices!

Since Brad and I have been together this has happened one other time. His property was sold and he decided to stay at the property to give the new company that bought it a try. So we'll see!

In the meantime it's business as usual for the staff and residents. Tonight there's a resident pool and movie party. Brad has so been looking forward to this all week. NOT! He doesn't mind his job but this is likely the one area that isn't so great about it to him. It may sound fun to attend a resident party but it's not that much fun having to work at one. Having to mix and mingle and serve residents on a FRIDAY night. He can think of a few other things he'd rather do with his Friday night. LOL! On the other hand Cody is very excited about the resident party, he's hoping for lots of extra attention. Cody will only go briefly. I'll walk him by and then back home. :)

Too Fast

Is it just me or has this weekend been flying by? My husband is back in action, he can drive to work in the morning! He's a happy guy! We got the car battery changed out yesterday afternoon. There's quite the interesting story that goes along with the solving of the dead battery but I'm not saying a thing. My lips are sealed! If I was to tell the extra side story of the battery situation I'd likely be stuck sleeping in the pet quarters with Cody and Piper tonight. LOL! Yep, my lips are sealed. To my husband, don't worry honey we'll continue to laugh about it for years to come! ;) And it will stay between us! :)

While we waited for Brad's car to be done we braved the mall which was down the street. It's tax-free weekend here in Texas so I was thinking the mall was going to look like it does just a few days before Christmas. We randomly browsed before going back to get Brad's car.

Our evening was taken up partly by the enshrinement ceremony. Wow, the speeches! I don't mean "wow" in a good way. We couldn't take it, we had to change the channel. First time in quite a few years we've turned off the enshrinement. The speeches were too preachy...just my opinion. Preachy in the way that they seemed to be hinting at some controversial issues, but maybe we were misreading their points. Please no one out there feel the need to send me an email...this is only my opinion regarding last night's less than stellar speeches! Anyway, we did keep checking in because we couldn't miss Jerry Jones or Kurt! They saved the 2 best for last....once again, just my opinion! I enjoyed both their speeches! Especially Jerry's...because he told stories! I like good stories in speeches.

So that's been our weekend, thus far. Maybe a movie night for us tonight. Either Redbox movie night or it's going to be a game night. Hope everyone out there is enjoying a good Sunday! These weekends go by too fast! Is it almost Sunday evening?

Quick Snap Sunday

Cody Concedes

Sometimes a pug has to arrive at the conclusion that his cat sister isn't going to move. It can be a crushing blow, but Cody's learning to deal with it. What's an old man puggie to do? Well he could choose to lay somewhere else in the house. Goodness, there's enough options, pet beds outnumber pets. And no, I'm not even including Simon's "main" bed in that count as it has been put away temporarily.  Despite his other options though, Cody decided to stay close to his sweet little sister. Good choice on his part! He's a good big bro!

Now the question is...when will she get up so he can snag the bed?

August Arrives

Well hello August! Where is the year going? It's marching on by, isn't it? The first week for us back to the grind after our stay-cation. August started with a few days of rain in a row. Cody was delighted! Not! Everyone else was delighted for sure.

The last couple of days Brad has been walking to work because he has a dead battery in his car. Yes, we live on property and he walks to work. We don't live super close to the office. He can certainly save a few minutes by driving. Which is especially important at his lunch break. Who wants to give up 10-12 minutes walking to and from the office when you have limited time on your lunch break? Anyway, we have an appointment in a little while to get the battery changed out. We'll have to jump his car before we can head out.

It was quite cute on Thursday and Friday when I took Cody with me to go pick up Brad at the office at the close of the workday. He likes going in the pathfinder. He sits perfectly on the floor in the front passenger seat. He completely reminded me of when he was a brand new pup riding in a little box I brought him home in.

It's Hall of Fame weekend. I'm ready for the speeches tonight. Quite something that it was Cards vs. Cowboys on Thursday at the Hall of Fame. I loved it! Sit up and take notice...Blaine Gabbert was a great pick-up in the off-season. Glad to get Cowboys-Cards match-up over with early! ;) Actually I haven't looked to see if they meet up against one another in the regular season! I kind of hope not! Peace in our household is always a good thing! Although, I'm a winner either way. As for Brad watching his team lose to the Cards is digestible too! He can cope with it much better than a loss to any other team. LOL!