Dog has the runs. He's been eating mulberries, I've been trying to get him to stop eating mulberries. He gets the runs...and eats more mulberries. Dumb dog. So to wake up to THAT. Not the way to greet the day. I slept last night like I had slept for a week and woke up groggy. One of those mornings when you can't even figure out how to turn off the alarm. Opened the bedroom door and was overwhelmed by the scent of poo. I looked in every room hoping it wasn't in the living room. No such luck. Of all the places he could have gone, like the disposable entry rug by the door, he chose the middle of my cream-colored area rug. So I gathered paper towel, plastic bag, a rag, and bucket of water and got to work. Again, not the way I wanted to start the day. I am so so so bummed. I can't blame him, but it doesn't make me like him any better. Fortunately I have some pet stain remover in the house that's sitting on the stain right now. I hope it works.

I now have all the windows open despite the humidity. Not what I wanted to do, fill the house with humidity, given the heat wave that is on the way.

And to add to the string of bad luck. I discovered at bedtime that my old Samsung tablet I use to read at night is now so old it won't load the newest versions of Libby or the Kindle apps anymore. So I do need to get a new eReader of some sort after all. I really don't want anything Amazon-related. I'm so bummed. More $$ flying out the door.

And, I've had a string of bad dig-auds. Just returned another one early (Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan) after listening to 25% of it. I need to connect with the characters and this one jumped back and forth, decades apart, and a quarter of the book in, I still couldn't decipher who and what. I don't want to have to draw a diagram of who-what-where-ddate just to follow along. I have no time to waste on figuring it out. Next!

At leasy I got a good 8mi ride in last evening. And vacuumed! So that dog could shit on a clean rug...

Got an estimate to replace the roof...$16k. Yikes!