Monday, October 22

The presidential debate is on and I am kind of listening to it with one ear.  Tonight I got out a tub and put Cowboy's feet in it and washed them really well, then I gave him a pedicure.  He has the most unusual feet I have ever run across.  Long, narrow, flat footed and with the most pitiful toenails one can imagine.  They are now clean, trimmed, medicated and his feet are all creamed and pampered.

Then I did his fingernails.  They looked pretty good but were less than clean and we gave him a good manicure.  He seems to like the attention and doesn't complain but on the other hand it is hard to get him to keep his hands where they need to be as opposed to his lap or on his legs.  It was a process of constantly reminding him to keep them up where I could do  my work.

Tomorrow morning I am taking the pup for a grooming and Cowboy for a haircut and breakfast at IHOP. 

My daughter arrives at 2:30 from New York.  Am really looking forward to her visit.  My other daugter will be here over the weekend as well as a grandson so have some family time coming up.  I really need it and am looking forward to the visits of all of them.

I finished the picture/memory wall on Sunday and it looks really great.  Cowboy actually does stop and look at the pictures.  I stood there with him today and asked him to identify what the occasion was for some of them and he could remember some things but couldn't a fair number of them.  Such a shame to lose the memory of going skiing in Garmisch, West Germany or dressing up as ghosts for a halloween party several years ago, etc.  I found a picture on the last day of Cowboy out on the prairie on a horse with cattle in the background.  It is tiny black and white photo but really captures a lot of who he is.  and then there is the photo of him as a young soldier in black and white sticking his tongue out.  He still does that when he is feeling silly and trying to be funny or make a comeback on something that has been said.  It says a lot about him. 

Will probably make some adjustments to it but feel good about getting it up and going.   Still have tons of things to go through but can take my time.  I guess I feel it would not be fair for the kids to have to deal with it sometime in the future.  I have put together a large envelope for each child and grown grandchild so they can just take them at some point in the future rather than trying to sort through literally hundreds, maybe thousands of pictures.  A lot of what is left to sort through are just trips and such that Cowboy and I took and am not sure they would ever even want to go through all of it.  I am a bit of a "shutterbug".