"A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane." - Jackie Kennedy

We have a problem with Buddy. He's most attached to me, which means he gets up when I do, about 3:30 most mornings. By the time we've both had breakfast and relieved ourselves (I do it inside) he's ready to play. One of his favorite games is playing fetch with a tennis ball. If you live in a single wide the only real way to play that game is to throw it from one end (the living room) to the other end (the bedroom).
That would be the bedroom where, at 5:30, Pam is still sleeping. We keep the bedroom door open so the heat from the fire I've built warms that room, too.
A 50 lb. dog barreling down the hall and into the bedroom in hot pursuit of a tennis ball is not conducive to sleep.

Shortly after a few rounds of that game Buddy realized the blanket in his bed was mounting an insurrection that needed to be put down quickly and fiercely. He attacked it full force, dragging it out of the bed, giving it a thorough thrashing, and then ripping particularly dangerous pieces off.

I'm still thinking about the problem of the aggressive dogs down the road. This morning I came up with this as a potential solution:

Rocks, bolts, or the ball shot that's available online. I don't want to kill the dogs, just put the fear of Craig into them, and this allows me to control the velocity some. I could also bounce the shot off the pavement in front of them to decrease velocity. And these things are cheap. This one is $10.
I looked at paint ball guns but most of them are rifles, they're more expensive, and you can't control velocity.

The 9th Circuit Court is the most liberal in the nation and has a history of some crazy rulings. They recently ruled that denying the homeless the freedom to camp in public parks or on sidewalks violates the U.S. Constitution. Homelessness must not be criminalized. You can guess the effect that has had here in Eugene.
Business owners downtown are going crazy because they've got tents set up in front of their shops and all the associated problems you'd expect. Yes, we're talking tents, cook stoves, the whole shebang.
Oregon is a crazy place and the 9th Circuit is keeping it crazy.

Sundae is still off her feed. She eats one of two servings of mash each day and not all of that. She also eats very slowly which has us thinking she may have trouble with one or more teeth. Sundae had listeria when she was young and the only apparent lasting effect is a misaligned lower jaw. That may be the root cause. (See what I did there?)
Marta came over today and did her best to look inside Sundae's mouth to look for anything obvious but a) goats have really sharp teeth in front of their molars, and b) Sundae did NOT think opening wide was a good idea.
Feeling from the outside it's clear there is an upper molar that is WAY out of alignment and positioned so that it seems at least likely to cause problems.
Marta's going to make some phone calls Monday and see what should come next. This can't continue because Sundae isn't getting adequate nutrition. Can the problem be diagnosed and fixed for a reasonable amount?
Sundae is Marta's goat that we have on what's called a "farm lease." We feed and care for her as though she was ours and get to keep whatever kids she has. But if we decide for some reason we don't want her anymore or if Marta wants her back.... It also means that any vet bills would be Marta's to cover. The good part of that: this is totally her call. It might be a tough decision if it comes down to spending significant vet money for a goat nearing the end of her breeding life.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. I teach class at 8:30, take careful notes of the sermon (9:30 worship service) so I can write small group discussion questions, write up a quiz in the afternoon that will get posted to the church web site, and then leave home about 3:30 to speak at the Oregon State Penitentiary. I should get home about 8:00.

We're eating the last of the goat meat Burrito provided us. Donut will be ready for butchering in about a month so we need the room in the freezer. Pam made some spaghetti sauce from the tomatoes she grew and she's going to try using that with the goat meat. Sounds like it should be good. I'll know in about 10 minutes.