Mutti Chronicles

Especially disgusting- looking , blood-sucking bugs! Someone remind me again why I have all these dogs . Ok, just 2. Caesar had disgusting diahrea all weekend. Which means going outside 3 nights in a row at about 4 am. And I just found a gross blood-filled tick on Bailey.That in itself isn’t so bad until you have to pull it off. But at least the Red Sox won last night!

I’m getting a little bleary-eyed here. I’ve just finished watching another 6 hours of baseball. That’’s on top of the 5 and a half from yesterday. And who knows how many last week. Perhaps part of the Red Sox charm is that they screw up so much. Let’s hope the game is only 3 hours tomorrow.

Two days have passed but the word is still AWESOME of course. One can only describe the visit by the President as AWESOME. 10,000 people gathered to support the President. You don’t have the chance to see that kind of thing every day! In person, I mean. It was all very exciting. Secret Service all over the place. SWAT teams on the roof. FBI lurking. Helicopters flying overhead. The President’s plane circling the park before landing at the airport. All very impressive. You could only describe it as part gospel/country music concert, part pep rally, intermixed with campaign speeches. And then the President arrived in an impressive motorcade complete with highway patrol escort. But you would never know any of this happened unless you were there in person because there wasn’t much in the way of news coverage. I think there was one shot on the national news showing the president standing behind a hay bale with a guy in the crowd wearing a cheesehead. So the rest of the country probably thinks we’re a bunch of hicks who walk around all day with cheese on our head.
But for those of us who were there, it was just plain AWESOME!

Mutti is feeling giddy (I never use that word) and patriotic at the moment. There are flags all over the place in our little city where previously there were none. Okay, I don’t actually live in the city limits. But close enough so that when THE PRESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES comes to visit I can call it mine. And I was within touching distance of a Bush/Cheney campaign bus and semi truck. I suppose they were checking on security issues. Did I mention I am going to see THE President of the United States? This is pretty exciting stuff for a plain old Mom who spends her days listening to people complain about their shoe issues and then comes home to scoop up dog poop. Cuz like how many chances in my lifetime will I have to do this? That is all!