Pirates

I forgot to put this fun fact in my last post. We were watching MythBusters last night as our go-to-sleep show. It was on pirate myths and one of the myths confirmed was about the real reason pirates wore eye patches. I'd always assumed it was because an eye was gouged out, however, that turns out to be false. It was actually so that one eye was always night ready. It takes a while for the rods in your eyes to warm up when going from bright to dark. By wearing a patch, they could descend below deck to darkness and just switch the eye patch to the other eye and have immediate night vision; or if they were below deck with the lights on and needed to go up at night, then it would work for that situation, as well. I thought that was quite interesting.

The walk with the three dogs this morning went very well. It was a bit of a stressful start as shortly after leaving the house a huge, noisy, slow construction truck was coming up behind us. Eddie got a bit anxious and Milo started barking, but we handled it as best we could and all turned out just fine. When we got the cemetery, all three dogs were walking nicely beside me (with Eddie trying to pull out front just a little the whole time - that is always the case and, I have finally accepted, will always be the case.) Milo was a piece of cake to walk and when we returned, his fear of the new situation seems to have left him. I was able to get him to go downstairs without prodding while I went grocery shopping and he's doing just dandy. This was a sort of test drive for a foster dog situation, so I think it is doable for us, though I think Milo is really a best-case-scenario dog. Eddie's now outside sunning himself with his tennis balls; Milo is with me in my office; and Turtle is asleep on her bed in the living room. All is well at Casa de TiVo.