Ella & Rusty & Stu(GA)
Member Since 2010
previous condo (7/22): http://www.felinediabetes.com/FDMB/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=122198
Hi Everyone,
This has been one hectic week of Canoe Outing. Rusty has been by himself for much of the time and he has done great and had good numbers (all greens and blues: I'm in the process of updating his SS). Today is his first beyond-blue number since the fur shot he got on the first day of Canoe Outing. (He's letting down his guard he is so happy to see us "full time".) Every day we've been leaving the house at 6:45 a.m. and returning, tired after a day of leading a paddle, around 8:30 p.m., when we've been vegging out watching the day's recap of the Tour de France and schmoozing with Rusty. I wanted to spend my evening hour or 2 with Rusty, rather than on my computer. I've been rushing home every day to give Rusty his PMPS and evening shot and then heading back to the Outing for the evening meeting/trip descriptions. Lots of driving back and forth to home, driving from the Paul Smiths College campus every day to where our paddle will begin (several trips that we chose to lead were 50 or 60 miles each way to the site of the paddle). So this was an "active" vacation. My schedule was like this:
6 a.m.: arise get dressed.
6:20 a.m. AMPS; get Rusty's breakfast and get his Automat set up for lunch and +9 snack.
6:45 a.m. Drive to Paul Smiths College, where Canoe Outing is based, and have breakfast in the cafeteria, make a bag lunch, and get our stuff ready for the day's paddle (we have a dorm room where we keep all our stuff, but don't stay overnight in because of Rusty).
8 a.m. or thereabouts: get our stuff for the day in the car (canoes are already on top of the car, since we leave them there); check the participants list to see who is coming on our trip; get them all together for a pre-trip head count; drive to the site of the day's paddle.
Rest of the day: PADDLE! We had great paddles and only 1 day of partial rain/ thunder storms
ca. 3 p.m. Return to Paul Smiths; get cleaned up.
4 p.m. Happy Hour
4:45 p.m. Leave Happy Hour early in order to get an early dinner in the cafeteria.
5:20 p.m. Drive home to spend a half hour with Rusty before his PMPS and dinner. (PMPS at 6:25)
6:30 p.m. Drive back to Paul Smiths.
7 p.m. Evening meeting during which the day's trips are reported on and the next day's trips described.
8 p.m. After the meeting we usually head straight home to our kitty.
8:30 p.m. Rusty time. Tour de France recap. Too tired to work on spreadsheets/condo and just want to be with our kitty.
11 p.m. Bedtime test (+4.5)
Our session of Canoe Outing was over yesterday morning, after breakfast, but I help with registration for the second session, so I went back to the Outing in the afternoon. Edward and Rusty had some nice outdoor time together.
Sorry to miss the Board this week and I hope that all is well with you all and with your kitties. I have lots of catching up to do.
bbl,
Ella & Rusty
Hi Everyone,
This has been one hectic week of Canoe Outing. Rusty has been by himself for much of the time and he has done great and had good numbers (all greens and blues: I'm in the process of updating his SS). Today is his first beyond-blue number since the fur shot he got on the first day of Canoe Outing. (He's letting down his guard he is so happy to see us "full time".) Every day we've been leaving the house at 6:45 a.m. and returning, tired after a day of leading a paddle, around 8:30 p.m., when we've been vegging out watching the day's recap of the Tour de France and schmoozing with Rusty. I wanted to spend my evening hour or 2 with Rusty, rather than on my computer. I've been rushing home every day to give Rusty his PMPS and evening shot and then heading back to the Outing for the evening meeting/trip descriptions. Lots of driving back and forth to home, driving from the Paul Smiths College campus every day to where our paddle will begin (several trips that we chose to lead were 50 or 60 miles each way to the site of the paddle). So this was an "active" vacation. My schedule was like this:
6 a.m.: arise get dressed.
6:20 a.m. AMPS; get Rusty's breakfast and get his Automat set up for lunch and +9 snack.
6:45 a.m. Drive to Paul Smiths College, where Canoe Outing is based, and have breakfast in the cafeteria, make a bag lunch, and get our stuff ready for the day's paddle (we have a dorm room where we keep all our stuff, but don't stay overnight in because of Rusty).
8 a.m. or thereabouts: get our stuff for the day in the car (canoes are already on top of the car, since we leave them there); check the participants list to see who is coming on our trip; get them all together for a pre-trip head count; drive to the site of the day's paddle.
Rest of the day: PADDLE! We had great paddles and only 1 day of partial rain/ thunder storms
ca. 3 p.m. Return to Paul Smiths; get cleaned up.
4 p.m. Happy Hour
4:45 p.m. Leave Happy Hour early in order to get an early dinner in the cafeteria.
5:20 p.m. Drive home to spend a half hour with Rusty before his PMPS and dinner. (PMPS at 6:25)
6:30 p.m. Drive back to Paul Smiths.
7 p.m. Evening meeting during which the day's trips are reported on and the next day's trips described.
8 p.m. After the meeting we usually head straight home to our kitty.
8:30 p.m. Rusty time. Tour de France recap. Too tired to work on spreadsheets/condo and just want to be with our kitty.
11 p.m. Bedtime test (+4.5)
Our session of Canoe Outing was over yesterday morning, after breakfast, but I help with registration for the second session, so I went back to the Outing in the afternoon. Edward and Rusty had some nice outdoor time together.
Sorry to miss the Board this week and I hope that all is well with you all and with your kitties. I have lots of catching up to do.
bbl,
Ella & Rusty
Of curse he did let me know how he felt about being all by himself, even more so if I was late getting home. :lol: I am glad too that you chosen to spend your evening hours with Rusty. Time well spent. 
