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I took Eddie to the vet this morning, only we didn't actually see the vet because when I described the symptoms to the vet tech, she said it sounds like he has tapeworms. Dogs get those from eating fleas. :( So, she gave me medication for both T & E and then they'll both need flea treatments. I don't think Turtle has fleas, but Eddie seems to get fleas if he even looks outside. He is a like a flea magnet. He got them when we were down in Texas, too. That is one wonderful thing about Colorado: no fleas to deal with.

D received a Roomba as a thank you for speaking at a conference at MIT a few weeks ago - it just arrived today. I am going to set it up in the living room and see if that works to keep the dog hair to a minimum on the main level where it's worst. Well, I guess the dog room is worst, but since I don't go down there all that often, I choose not to think about it.

I think I'm done FitDaying for this go around. While I didn't achieve my goal of tracking all through July, I did achieve my goal of resetting my thinking in terms of eating a giant dessert at every possible moment is probably not the healthiest thing to do. I don't mind logging carefully when I'm eating at home, but when we eat out, it's so hard to know what is in the food you are eating, that I get frustrated that I can't be exact. In any case, I think it is a good exercise to track when you're trying to get your eating back in line.

I love my hanging flowers, but I hate watering them. The watering wand is so difficult for me to use. And the hose always gets all kinked up and I don't like to get dirty or wet when I'm doing that type of stuff. It makes me so mad because it sprays water all over me. I think a lot of it is because I'm so short because it doesn't happen to D when he waters them. I resorted to watering the back flowers by leaning over the railings upstairs and watering that way. It worked fairly well. That may be how I do it from this point forward.

The heat here has subsided a bit. I took the dogs out for a walk early today and wore shorts, but at 7:30, it was too cold (for me) to be wearing shorts, so I only took them a mile, rather than the two-mile loop.