Love is in the Air!

Here we are, a few days before VD.  Yep, VD is everywhere.  Every big box store, every drugstore,  and of course all the flower shops and the chocolate shops in my town are pushing VD.  VD can be evil.  It begins the day after Christmas and builds and builds and builds and God pity the man who doesn't produce something edible, fragrant, or sparkly on VD!  As a matter of fact, VD is our wedding anniversary.  Very special day.  Mind you, I don't expect edible, fragrant or sparkly on my anniversary (even though I received a beautiful bouquet of my favorite flowers yesterday).  The huzbin and I swing a different way.  We're more into trips to see the kids and grandchild or replacing a dead appliance or paying $3,000 to the vet for poodle pneumonia recovery or somesuch fun thing.  Our life is so exciting.  We did take the plunge and purchase a new king mattress for the new king bed.  Yep, here we are approaching our mid-60's and we're finally marching into the 70's.  And the only reason we decided to make this change is because above named poodle is sleeping in the bed with us and running someone out of the bed.  The huzbin and I are cuddlers - something was going to have to give.  The poodle was beginning to give me the fish eye and I knew my time in the old bed wasn't long.  We've now become "those" people.  People who obey the dog.  People who allow the dog to run the household.  His illness has been horrible for the past three weeks and we've let him forget every bit of training because he was too sick to function.  He spent 4 days and 3 nights at the hospital because he had to be med monitored round the clock. We weren't sure he was going to come through this illness.  After he came off IV meds and fluids, his vet said in order to get him to eat, allow him to eat anything.  HA!  Now he's snubbing dog food.  Who would want to eat dog food after eating scrambled eggs, cooked chicken, peanut butter, lunch meat, ground beef and steak???  He's now turned the corner of his illness and is on the road to happy health.  Of course, he's snobby and untrained now, much like the huzbin was back in the day.  But I broke him and I'll break the poodle, too.  The huzbin had an excellent trainer and the poodle has an excellent trainer.  We'll be back to normal quite soon.  It will involve lots of love.  The timing of this event has been very appropriate - right around VD.  There won't be candy or flowers or sparklies, but there will be loads of love.  And when you're a poodle, what else could you possibly want??