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I couldn’t write new stuff to the musicals. Had to go back to Hoobastank, Edgewater, Seether, Revis, the soundtracks for THE PUNISHER, and DAREDEVIL. Right now I have all four dogs under the desk, or as under as they will fit. Phouka is hiding from Jimmy, who keeps wanting to lick or mount her. Sasquatch is lying on his side with a rubber bone taunting Pippin. They’ve been playing keep away, and now Sas is lying on his side, making alien talky noises like the Tan-tans on the ice planet Hoth. (I swear that’s what he sounds like sometimes.) Pip is lying on the other side of the chair leg letting Sas taunt and play, while he, barely moves. I think Pip is letting Sas think he’s winning, before he gets up and trounces him. He out weighs the other dogs by more than their body weight, and is tall enough for them to walk under him. If Pip wants to win a fight he can. But the other dogs get discouraged and won’t play with him, so he’s learned to let them win enough to want to keep playing before he bounds up and finishes the game. Now everyone’s at the door, except Phouka. I think the younger dogs need to go downstairs. I’ll open the door and yell for someone to get them. Then back to work for me.
Everyone went downstairs but Phouka. She’s curled on the dog bed by the desk. She’s gone almost completely blind in the last two months. The doctor thought she’d go blind eventually but the speed with which it happened caught us off-guard. Eight seems a little young for it. Jimmy, who is 15, is doing so much better. Sigh. But since she lost most of her sight she’s not as eager to move. She likes to stay where she’s at, and she’s lost a lot of patience with the rough-housing from the other dogs. I really thought we’d get the new construction finished before her sight went, but it is not to be. She has been so brave and so game about the new steps, the new patio. We pat, and say up, and she tries. Once she knows a safe route just once, she’ll trust that it’s there and okay. What a brave girl. Her utter trust that we’ll see her safe has been both heart warming and a little scary. For Halloween this year there is only one costume for our fuzzy princess –Daredevil.