It's All Greek to Me

    A lot of things happened this week. For one, the dogs had some adventures. First off, Nikita's old hips could not hold her for one moment. She was squating to do her job when her hips gave and she fell down. Luckily, I saw it happened and I was able to get my dad to help her up. She then continued on her way. She seemed a bit embarassed after the incident. When you have an old dog, they can get fairly needy. Nikita for one, sometimes needs help getting up or getting in the car. Then you have to give them their medication, although it is nice to have a dog that is relaxed and quiet. Even though Nikita trips over her own paws, she still enjoys her walks.
     Speaking of walks, the dogs get REALLY excited when we mention the word "walk." Lizzie is the loudest of the three. She starts wooing and will sprint up and down the sidewalk to the fence. Nikita even trots to the fence but can be knocked over pretty easy by the other two. Hoover takes a cue from Lizzie and will try to woo. Then he lumbers down to the gate. With the cooler temperatures, they get even more excited when they hear the magical word.

 

    I have another project to work on at school. This one is about the Greeks. Every sixth grader is a doing a project on anything related to ancient Greece. I've choosen to present about what is true about the Trojan War's stories. I'm looking forward to this project. I'm hoping to make a poster board and a Trojan Horse sculpture (even though the Trojan Horse was most likely a myth).

     In our Greek simulation we have a mock Olympics. I'm looking forward to the running event. It is a short Olympics, we only have four events. The 400 meter run, the discus, shot put, and javelin. Our javelin is a rubber dart, very dangerous. I'm excited to run in the 400 final. I just wish the ancient Greeks had soccer.

     This coming weekend will be full of soccer. I have a game in Columbus on Thursday. I have two more games on Saturday and Sunday, one away and one home. I will have a packed weekend. Although for me, that means a lot of excitement. Hopefully, we can squeeze in a walk for the dogs. If we don't, Lizzie will be one upset Husky.

Home Alone

    Have you ever wondered what your dogs do while you're gone? Sometimes I know what my dogs do. Sometimes I find toys in the living room or bedroom. It is pretty easy to find out what Nikita does. Either she is sleeping, there's not much else really. She does enjoy a dog biscuit when we leave. Over the years she has developed a sense as to when we are leaving the house and follows my parents. She loves her dog biscuits.
    Lizzie is usually very restless. You can often  find Lizzie in any room that is quiet. She usually prefers my bedroom, downstairs or my parent's bedroom. Lizzie is not a big biscuit dog though. We often find them in bedrooms or on a dog bed, if they aren't found by Hoover.
    Hoover is what you call a loyal dog. Hoover usually sleeps by the door waiting for us to come home. We often see him waiting at the door when we come home. He is the alarm system. Sometimes Nikita and Lizzie will join him at the door. It is always a bit of a hazard when Nikita goes to the door because she has been knocked over by the other two. Her old legs can't always support her.
 

   Now that we have gone over our current dogs, I think we should give a couple of our fosters a shout out. Lumen, frankly was the worse. We tried Lumen in a crate at first, that was not a good idea. Lumen destroyed the tray in the crate. Let me remind you, she only weighed about 30 pounds. We thought maybe she didn't like crates, so we tried her out of the crate. That was an even bigger mistake. We assumed Lumen jumped onto the dinner table and consumed lots of candy canes that were in a box on the table. All we found were pieces of wrappers all over the family room. For a day her droppings were multicolored. She also chewed on mum's flip camera. My mum said, "At least she didn't eat the sofa." We went back to the crate. The crate wasn't the best but it kept her contained. She managed to bend a few bars on the crate. My parents were VERY happy when Lumen was adopted, even if it was on my birthday.
     Sebastian slept most of time but everyone has a bad night. When we left one night and then returned Sebastian was in his usual spot, everything seemed fine. Except everything went a little haywire when mum walked into her bedroom. She discovered the sheets were all over the place on the bed but the worse thing was there was diarrhea all over the sheets. At least it wasn't my bed. We wondered if he was trying to cover it up. Even though Sebastian never jumped on furniture, it couldn't have been Nikita. She is unable to jump that high and Hoover hadn't been sick. Sebastian was on medication that affected his stomach. I kind of felt bad for the boy. Despite this mishap, we almost ended up adopting Sebastian.
      Do you know what your pets do when they are home alone?  

Soccer and the Ice Bucket Challenge

     Last weekend was a bit of a slow one apart from my soccer tournament. Other than that, not much else happened. 
     The tournament began on Saturday. However, my team came on Friday. The tournament was in Fort Wayne. That's a three hour drive from where I live. I arrived at Fort Wayne at about nine pm. The IU soccer team was staying in the same hotel! I took a swim and went to bed. Meanwhile at home, Hoover destroyed his toy Bumble. Lizzie mourned the loss of her friend.
      Saturday morning I got up and got ready for my game. We were going to play teams from Ohio and Michigan. On our first game we played a team from Michigan. We had to play catch up because of an unlucky goal. We tied two to two. Our team played great and I had fun.
      The hotel we stayed at also had some soccer players living in it. The Indiana soccer team went to the same hotel as us. It was cool that both Bloomington teams were there. 
      The rest of the day was free time except for mum and her friend who went shopping all over Fort Wayne to get tickets to an IU game that night. Most of the team went to the game. Although most of us played World Cup and watched about five minutes of the game. At least I saw the goal that won the game for IU. 
      The next day we got up early and finished our tournament. The first game of our day was unfortunate because we lost 4-1. But until about the last five minutes of the game, the score was only 2-1. Because we lost we did not play the final at 3:30. Somehow I wanted to play the final but I also didn't want to get home at 9:00. Our next game at 11:00 am was a pretty evenly matched game but we lost 3-2. I think our team still did well though. It was pretty exciting playing teams out of state.  

   I read to the cats at the shelter this weekend. I finally decided to start reading Harry Potter. I don't know why I never read it. I guess I just felt too bias about the Hobbit. Anyway, I took the first book to the cats but a cat at the shelter, named Goose, didn't want me to read. As I sat my book down and looked for a cat toy, Goose rolled on to my book. So I could only watch him lay smuggly on my book. Reading would just have to wait.
     Also this weekend we did the Ice Bucket Challenge. If you don't know what the Ice Bucket Challenge is, it is where you are challenged by someone to dump a bucket with ice and water on your head, and to challenge someone else. The Ice Bucket Challenge is to raise awareness about a disease called ALS. We did some research about ALS before we actually did the challenge. One of things we did was read about Stephen Hawking. You can see his Ice Bucket Challenge here: Stephen Hawking
     On to the challenge. I got the bigger bucket of the two, I wanted it. As I was pouring water on mum's head, I got a bad feeling about mine. When it was my turn, mum started pouring water on my head but she stopped about a third of the way through it. I looked up and I asked is that it? I was wrong! Mum then dumped the rest of the water on my head. Sorry for being a bit of a Captain Obvious, but the water was pretty cold. For once the dogs weren't too excited for us to pet them after having water poured on us. If they so wish to take on the Ice Bucket Challenge, I challenge Michelle and Thomas Burns.
     I hope everyone has a good week. It is the start of football and futbol.