The dogs were not pleased by all of the ruckus caused by the roof replacement. Booger spent the better part of Thursday and Friday looking at me from under my desk.
Howard isn't exactly house safe yet so he spends most of his daytime hours in his dog yard. He was equally unimpressed by all of the noise and commotion. He's also VERY unimpressed with deer season going on and not being allowed much freedom over the weekend. His energy level has made teevee time a bit of a wrassling match the last couple evenings. lol
Turns out Pops fractured a bone in his left shoulder when he fell two Fridays ago. ER Radiologist missed it, but his ortho guy didn't. It doesn't require surgery, but he'll have to keep that arm in a sling for a few weeks, and they're pushing the replacement of his other shoulder joint back a month to allow time for this injury to heal.
His Holter monitor came off last Thursday and was turned in to the cardiologist. It can take up to six weeks to get the results back, but his doc is hopeful that it will have some good data so they can get a treatment plan in place to combat the dizzy/pass out spells that he's been having. Speculation is that a pacemaker implant will do the trick but the Holter data is needed before a final determination can be made on that.
Deer season opened on Saturday. Mrs. Augie saw a few in spite of the unfavorable weather conditions. None of them were up to her standards so they all got to walk. Same result for my buddy Nick. Same result for the neighbors hunting across the fence. The weather guessers are saying it's going to cool off with a decent chance for rainfall over the next couple days so hopefully that will get the vermin moving around again.
I got a good bit of cleanup work done in the kitchen garden over the weekend. Tomato and pepper cages have been stripped of dead plant material and moved aside. Still need to store them for the winter. Most of the weeds have been knocked down and burned off. All of the t-posts that held up the tomato cages and cucumber fence need to be pulled up and stored. The ground is way too hard to pull them by hand so I'll have to get a tractor out for that job. Soon as those posts are out of the way I'll run over it with the tiller then add six-ish inches of composted stall waste on top and that spot will be ready for spring.
Spinach crop is doing well in the greenhouse. The turnip/rutabaga planting in the raised beds are doing very well, and I noticed the garlic is starting to peek out of it's compost blanket. I still haven't gotten my lettuce planted out there. Probably too late to start it now but I'm going to do it anyway. Maybe. If I have time.