Michael & Liz are Bloggable

As some of you might know... we are taking care of Mr. Dewey Chase for the next two weeks as Julie and Jon are in Europe. Well today was far too disastrous to not blog about. We have been updating a google doc for them so they can see what our days are like and I thought I would post the info we put in there from today for everyone to see:

"Well I(Michael) am physically and mentally drained after today. I will try and keep this more on a Dewey note than "what our day has been like" type note but they really coincide. This afternoon we laid down and watched Six Days, Seven Nights and I pulled Dewey up to lay next to me. Don't worry, I know it's PG-13 and he's only 9 months old, but I dont think he was paying much attention to the movie. After 10 minutes he was snoring and was out for 2 hours.

"Since every Sunday is my marathon training running, I had to do 11 miles today which is 9 laps around the neighborhood. I took Dewey on the first lap and about halfway around the neighborhood, he found a tree off the side of the sidewalk and ran right into the shaded area and did a "home base" type slide to the ground. It absolutely cracked me up and I couldn't help but yell "SAFE!" It was definitely more than just collapsing to the ground, he all out sprawled and slide through the grass. I gave him a minute or two for his efforts and we kept going. I dropped him off at the house after the one lap and kept going. After 7 more laps I picked him back up at the house for another lap and that lap turned into my "warm down walking lap", he was not having any of the running this time so I obliged. When we got back to the house I was about as tired as could be and had no desire to do anything but sit and do nothing... yeah... not gonna happen.

"When we got back, Liz was preparing dinner and running the washer upstairs. Ever since we replaced the sink in the kitchen (the week before the wedding) we have been having plumbing venting issues in the house. We'd flush the toilet and the kitchen sink would gurgle and at times a geyser type water fountain would put on a display. Well tonight was the icing on the cake, when the washer went to drain the water from the system, the downstairs toilet overflowed, and "flowing" out of the top of the toilet is an understatement, it was rushing out. So Liz grabbed Dewey and put him in his cage and ran up for towels and to turn off the washer. I took whatever cloth material I could and made my very own Hoover dam around the water filling the kitchen, however it was much less effective than the one in Nevada. I turned off the water to the house and we spent the next hour wringing out towels in the backyard. The kitchen was 100% flooded and our only success was keeping it out of the "sweet room" and the living room and dining room.

"Once everything was calm and the kitchen was dry, we called roto-rooter to make an appointment. We will keep the water off all night and will be seeing the guy in the morning. After that we took Dewey for another lap around the neighborhood, this time for his benefit doing the normal walking and letting him sniff thing.

"All is quiet now as we are all pooped and hopefully will be goin to bed early. "