Hurry up and wait

That's sort of the mode we are in with Sis...tick, tick, tick, waiting 72 hours to get the results of her test for Cushing's, from yesterday.  She's acted like she'd been let out of a concentration camp ever since we picked her up last night and she's asleep in the dog bed Fred put under our office desk, right at my feet.  Plus, she's dieting to lose two pounds, so that's never fun.  Face it...she has just been to dog hell.

Today at noon is the thank you  lunch at Parkland, and a list of things they've purchased with the grant money given to them and a tour of the Rehab Gym.  It will be fun to see what they've done and hear their plans for spending the rest.  It's my dream to be able to continue to give grant money every year and in this economy, that may be a challenge, but we'll just have to see how creative we can get.

The little house at the farm gets the rest of it's make over today, and Fred said he thought it would be another 4-5 hours on it.  Thank goodness it was a set fee and not an hourly amount.  Fred said he also found two shed skins of  bull snakes inside the little house, in a chair he unfolded (director's chair) and I nearly passed out.  I know exactly where they got in and that hole needs repair FAST.  Since the past repair has been comprised of a Coke can shoved in the hole, with the big clean out, this hole is getting fixed.  Period.   No one really stays in the little house much and we've just been remiss in doing much to it, but  once the repair is done, that's likely to change, since the little house holds so many memories for all of us.  It's a sweet little place and fun to remember putting our kids on Traveler or Freckles (old, small horses who are now Elmer's glue) looping the reins around the saddle horn, and watching them plod around and around the house, inside the fence.  Yippy yo ki yay.....  excellent babysitting.