The suitcase is packed, the car will be loaded tomorrow, and then I’ll be on my way.  In the meantime, I hope you all have a good time while I’m gone.  I’ll post when I get home. 

     Dear Hubby is in charge of the house and dogs while I’m gone—I hope to heaven the dogs behave for him.  They can be a handful when I’m not around.  (When the alpha dog’s away…and all that.)  Hey, I even have an ‘Alpha Dog’ T-shirt and DH bought it for me.

     I’ve left DH a list—it’s not long, just reminders as to what to do with the dog’s water, the fish, and to remember to water the potted vegetable garden and the flowers in the pots on the front porch every afternoon once the sun is off them.  I know him, without a list he’d forget to water the plants.  He wouldn’t add the cider vinegar to the dog’s water, which, by the way, has cleared up Gavin’s chronic ear infection.  So we don’t want to stop doing that do we?  He’d also ignore the fish and they’d have to live on algae—they would not be pleased.