Mixed Bag

This weekend was such a mixed bag. Lots of fun/good/neat stuff happened and the reverse as well. Friday I went to dinner with my mom and sis. Then we picked up Matt at the airport (yea!) and we went to see Bewitched. Truly excellent movie. We all really enjoyed it. When we got home, we found that Mr. Loki had messed his box (kennel). We got to spend a generous half hour cleaning out his box. Eeeeew!

Saturday started out poorly. I was grumpy and Matt as grumpy and we basically managed to argue for most of the morning. But we got it together and had a nice day together running errands and the like, including running to Super Target to get the ingredients for a new recipe, Jerk Chicken. We got home, did some housey stuff and made the marinade for the chicken. Then we took Loki down to Standley Lake. We rode our bikes and he ran along side us and took the occasional swim.

When we got home, we fired up the BBQ and got ready to cook the chicken. Matt had the corn on the grill and had set out the chicken. Loki was inside with us, but he started to get into trouble, so we sent him outside. Just after I had closed the door, Matt realized the chicken was unguarded. I had thought it was on the grill. I ran back just in time to see him grab a drumstick from the bowl. We chase him around the back yard and thought we got him to drop it and put him inside while we searched for the chicken. But we couldn't find it and came to the conclusion he swallowed it. We called the vet and asked about it and they told us to wait and see. All Sunday he seemed fine. We had a pretty nice day, ran errands, etc. We headed to bed at 9, planning to get up and go to the gym in the morning. From 10 PM until 2 AM we had three phone calls that took us from the brink of sleep or deep sleep to wide awake. The first was from Matt's Brother who thought we'd still be awake. That was around 10. Not so bad. The next two were from some unidentified jerk who seemed to think that calling people at 1 AM and 1:40 AM on a Monday night was a good thing to do. I finally turned off my phone and we went back to sleep. Around 3:30, I awoke to hear a pitiful crying sound … Loki.

Matt went down and took him out and came back to report that the situation we had feared was happening. Loki was having trouble getting that bone out of his system. So Matt and Loki are currently at the vet and I'm at work, worrying.