Debating

David does these online surveys and trails and such. This week a big bag of dog food came in the mail for him to get Miner to try. Neither of us are very much interested in switching his food, so we decided to donate it to the Scott County Humane Society (where we got Miner a year and a half ago).

While we were dropping the food off, we went and checked out the adoptable dogs. We've been debating for a while if we should get a buddy for Miner. We think he'd be fine, but aren't sure we have enough room and realize we would have to do the same work if not more than what we did when we got Miner. But we did see a wonderful little female black lab called Abby. She was so sweet and quiet.

The only bad thing is that David is busy with work now, so he doesn't have a lot of down time and that is keeping us from adopting. We don't want to if we can't spend lots of time with both dogs.

High and Dry

So, Davenport has a little flooding in downtown, but nothing more than what we had a couple of months ago. We live well up from the river, and not close enough to any of the creeks to have any real water problems. I can't go my normal way to work because of the flooding downtown, but that's no big deal.

I went to a conference in Sioux Center (northwest Iowa) this weekend. I-80 was closed between Walcott and Iowa City because of the Cedar River flooding. So, we had to re-route and take US-61 to US-20 to get to the west side of the state.

The Cedar River, Des Moines River, Iowa River and Raccoon River are all above 1993 levels. The Iowa DOT website has some pretty amazing pictures. 83 of Iowa's 99 counties have been declared disaster areas.

We're OK. David's brother in Cedar Rapids is OK. There sure are a lot of Iowans who aren't.

Throw Money at the Problem

The back yard is a disaster. The people that built the wall tore the grass up with their damn Bobcat. The wall is not level, it's leaning and they didn't backfill with rock. To top that all off, we've had like 10 feet of rain in since March. After spending 2 weekends thinking that we can fix it ourselves, we came to the realization that we have the money to pay someone to fix it. I think it will save David's back and joint (the blocks on the wall weigh 80 lbs.) and my sanity. So, in true Los Bike fashion, we are throwing money at the problem until it goes away.

Get This?!

Of the three Asiatic Lilies I planted Memorial Day weekend, I thought two were orange and one was white. But they all started blooming this weekend and they are ALL white. Maybe they start white and change? I wanted at least the one white to balance out with the white bleeding hearts on the other side of the front door. Oh well, we'll just have to plant some more lilies. :)

Sunday Crossword

I've been trying to work the Washington Post crossword puzzles online every day. I am typically really good at the beginning of the week. The first couple of weeks, I wasn't so good on the weekends. Today, I got almost done with the Sunday Challenge before giving up. Yay me!