Middle America's Worldview

Too much has gone on, so I will be brief and try not to digress.

Fathers Day was good. I was able to get the yard done, but unfortunately without incident. I should say, I was able to sweat my butt off while I did our yard in addition to our neighbors yard. As my lovely wife has posted, one of our dogs unfortunately ran into the wrong crowd. We have 3 little dogs in the back and when I mow the yards it allows them to actually roam free. They get to go mark the other yards. Well, the smallest one went into the fence of 2 larger dogs. Why, I have no idea. It appears they mauled him to death. When I got there, he was already gone. My daughter, justly so, bawled her eyes out with my wife following suite. I buried him in the back and was man enough about it, till I came in the living room. Listening to my daughter talk about it, with both girls shedding tears was just too much. My heart ache and my eyes watered. It's one of those things you wish you could do something about, but just can't. The only thing I could do was listen and keep saying we will get through it. I also had to tell her the story of my first dog I lost. Yes, we re-live through our kids, unfortunately also through the bad times.

Monday was just another busy day. I had the kids all day and made them work. heh heh I managed to get them to do one closet. Yeah, real slave driver.

We plan to go to dinner with the friends tonight. Supposedly the kids eat free at this place tonight. It was unexpected and came into light, during church.

I had the kids again today. I plan to put them to work, if I can pry them from their gameboy and cartoons. We made a run between my meetings to get haircuts here in town. I like this gal. She is quick and normally not that busy on the times I happen to hit her. I received the pleasure to hear how she and her 1.5 year husband split up 2 weeks ago. Fortunately we were pretty much in and out. A short cut for my boy, bangs cut on the girl and a good trim for me. Slam bam, thank you maam.

We are now planning to drive into Dallas, Tx, thursday night after work. We fly out to Pennsylvania Friday. I had to take that day off as vacation.

What remains of our week looks like this;

Tuesday - dinner at night with friends
Wednesday - work and dinner at night with Kelli's family for her birthday (Sunday)
Thursday - have exterminators over to hit it again, drive to Dallas that nigth after work.
Friday - fly to Pennsylvania.

In the mean time, continue to keep house up and clean. We still need to pack and get ready for the trip. Get the guilt trip from my parents to see them before we go. Fun Fun.