Catch up and Ooblic

Friday, we made the long drive to Seattle for Tim's next appointment. The stitches are finally out and everything is looking good! Three more weeks until he gets the "green light" to take the splint off and carry on with normal life, but already it is so much better. Without stitches, he can finally take a normal shower without duct tape and garbage bags, and sleeping keeps getting easier. While we were out, Grandpa volunteered to take care of Tilly, so I put aside my fretting and left the house without her.

After the successful doctors appointment, we were already half way to Tacoma, so we figured we'd drive the rest of the way down and check out the "Science Dome" which was having a special planetarium night (free) talking about that comet that just shot into the sun from the far reaches of space and Google's incentive to motivate private groups to head back to the moon. 

Yes, that is what you've always dreamed of: a pool full of ooblic! They also used liquid nitrogen to make instant ice cream!

The show got out at 8:30, but we didn't pull into the driveway until after 11:30pm! Much later than we expected to be home, and although Tilly had an excellent day with Grandpa, she got diarrhea just before we got home and made quite a mess for me to clean up. At 2am, her house was finally cleaned with laundry done and my warm, dry, freshly washed puppy was curled up on my lap sleeping and ready for bed. At least she let us sleep in a little the next morning.

We have a new neighbor who moved into the smallest house on the lake with little Mr. Magoo, the grumpy older dog who doesn't appreciate being pummeled by a puppy twice his size. Though Mr. Magoo wasn't so excited to see us, his owner was very excited about her first morning waking up in her beautiful new home. 

We walked for quite a ways until I was satisfied Tilly was properly worn out, then headed back to the house to get Tim and drive to Oak Harbor and back on an unsuccessful trip to try to apply for a new ID (they closed an hour before we got there). It is amazingly exhausting and time consuming to run errands with an injured arm, a puppy, and long drives everywhere we go!

So that gets us caught up to today, which has been a laid back day of walking, UU church, more walking... While Tim rested his arm, Tilly and I walked around Greenbank farm until we found a familiar puppy from our puppy class and her family to walk with, then the puppies ran and ran and ran as we made two full slow loops around the entire farm. I put Tilly back in the car where she happily curled up for a nap while I checked out the holiday market and made fiber friends, then she slept all the way home and went straight to bed with no fuss. Even when Fritz (a fellow Juneau immigrant) and his girlfriend Gail stopped in for a visit, Tilly only sustained her excitement for a fleeting minute before passing out in my arms again and heading back to bed. 

More adventures tomorrow!