Fourth of Forty Days

Still haven't read any of the library book but I WILL!!  There's time...not due til March 6...have I mentioned that my middle name is/should be "procrastination"??

No smell of skunk this morning (yay) but no Lenten bird singing (boo).  During the mailbox walk (see Daily Routine below) Dora was VERY interested in something.  We stopped so she could stare into the little cemetery and....there was a big old skunk waddling along!!  Needless to say she did NOT (Dora, that is!) get off her leash during the morning walk.  Must check and see if Camp-Mor still sells "Skunk Off'.  I hate to think what Heads and Tails would charge to deskunk her.  H said, "But you'd have to put her in the car to get her there and you don't want to do that!"  Oh no....we would walk to Heads and Tails!!  It would be worth it so I wouldn't have to wrassle her!!

Generic daily routine:

Wake Up
Carry General to the kitchen
Let Dora into the backyard
Feed General
Make coffee/Let Dora back inside
Walk the mailboxes (that means going up and down across the street where all the mailboxes are lined up outside the little cemetery)
Get newspaper out of the mailbox
Fix coffee and take upstairs along with newspaper

Whew!  And that is all before I've had a shower and taken Dora for her regular walk!!  I am hoping H will read this so he can appreciate what all I do before he even opens his eyes in the am.  Of course he thinks it is crazy to carry a perfectly healthy cat down the stairs in the morning but - as I've tried to explain - General likes it!!  And H says there is no good reason to take Dora to walk the mailboxes but......she likes it!  I started doing it when she first moved in with the hope of her deciding to do any urgent morning business there instead of the backyard (and, yes, if she ever did I WOULD - and have - pick it up!) but so far she seems to prefer the backyard.  Oh well.....