My fierce puppy dog has saved from from what she perceived as certain death - the rinse cycle of the washing machine.  What would I do without her?  She is so brave and fearless!

She also pulled a Dakota on me today - it tugged at my heart.  Dakota was such a good girl, especially at bath time.  It took a couple of years, but eventually all I had to do was point at the tub and she would begrudgingly jump in.  Not her favorite event ever, but she did enjoy the toweling off process and I believe that in her head the reward outweighed the inconvenience of being lathered, scrubbed, and rinsed.  Today, it was time for Liberty to have a bath as it has easily been 6 weeks or more because of the staples in her side.  But since they are finally out, it was time to wash the stink off (and oh did she stink!)  I politely asked her to join me in the bathroom, and she did.  Then I pointed to the tub and she gave me the look of DOOM.  She slunk around behind me, looking for a way out.  I gently cajoled her and then, like a little miracle, she jumped right in the tub.  I am so proud of her.

I sold my motorcycle over the weekend.  Turns out, maybe I shouldn’t have.  My insurance premium went from $760 for TWO bikes to $1111 for ONE bike.  WTH?  Something about losing the multiple motorcycle discount.  Too late now.  I self excluded myself from riding Lambchop’s motorcycle and that will drop the rate down considerably, and seriously, I have not, nor will I ever, be the driver of that bike (except in dire emergency).  His bike is just too big for me to be comfortable handling.  So no loss really, just a shock that the rate would increase, let alone go up so much.

While I shopped for new motorcycle insurance today, I also checked out a new homeowners policy and managed to save about 40% there.  Auto is as low as I can get it considering our personal comfort level.  I might try to reduce our flood coverage, but dealing with all of the other insurance wiped me out.  No joke, I have spent HOURS in the phone today.  Some day “off”, eh?

I sold the motorcycle to pay for a new computer - should be here tomorrow.  Yay!  This little old Dell is about at the end of it’s days.  I hope the computer is here when we get home tomorrow, or preferably, that Fed Ex comes when someone is here.  Not sure any neighbors are home during the day and naturally, I could coordinate my day off with the delivery company.  So far, we haven’t had problems when they leave packages at the door - but just my luck, my computer will get stolen.  O, the inhumanity!