I am alone since last Sunday! I don't like to be alone, but I am dealing with it! It is a sacrifice, as our daughter went to California to get one of her doggies bred! So, Carol is in town driving our granddaughter to her college classes. I have a flat tire on my pickup, and I don't have a very good way to pump it up, but if it were an emergency I could find a spare tire, mount it, drive it down, have the tire repaired, bring some concrete blocks back, but I am going to try to tough it out, because I can haul amost as many concrete blocks with our Van, and it will cost me less to drive it than the pickup, and I am trying to cut costs! I am almost to run out of milk, but I think I will make it, barely. I am almost to run out of dog food also, and we have one of our daughter's doggies here, but I think I will make it. I also found a small sack of dog food that mice or rats carried under the house and I swept it up. It is mixed with bird food, dirt, insulation, small pieces of garbage, so I am having to clean it, but I tested it on Scooby tonight, just a little, and he will eat it, so that will make the dog food go further, and I can feed them enough to keep them from feeling hungry, and that is important. I don't have much to eat here, but I will make it. I eat cooked oatmeal, raisins, and milk for breakfast, then 1/2 slice of bread and some lettuce for lunch, I am running out of lettuce, but I have celery and red, yellow/orange peppers, so I will be fine even after I run out of lettuce. I eat peanut butter, honey, and drink milk for supper. I also eat 1/4 of bar of dark chocolate semi sweetened with each meal, so I will be fine. I have been getting up more than an hour earlier than I normally do to get started walking with the doggies before it gets hot, but that last few days it has actually been cold, and I have been wearing a coat in the house during the day. Towards evening I get too warm for that coat and shed it. I am feeling sorry for myself, but I will be okay. Because of keeping one of our youngest daughter's doggies, the doggies have gotten into 4 fights, and one was really serious. I had to lift the doggie I am keeping by the back of the neck and back almost as high as my head and they were still trying to bite each other. When it was over both doggies were limping, but my daughter told me that her doggie was injured when he was a pup, so his limping was natural, and our doggie Rand was limping and bleeding. The other doggie tore his leg open, but it was not real severe,a nd he walked with me the next morning 6.5 miles, so he is okay also. For just a short time it traumatized me, but after that I was fine. Every time I have something bad happen I call Carol and talk with her, and then I feel better. I certainly would not want to live alone any longer than necessary! But I will be fine until Monday, and then Carol will be back!