Leather and Weather

We are trying to get Kim's 'project' due on the 28th finished up.  We had a few hiccups with the leather.  Not real sure what happened, but when I add color and finish, the finish changed the color to a much lighter shade of what we wanted.  Plus the finish didn't have the 'sheen' it should have, even after multiple applications.  I think most of the issue related to a cheap piece of leather.  It didn't get tanned in a consistent manner, thus allowing some areas of the piece to be inferior to other areas.  Have had some similar issues before and worked through it without a problem  This time was more hair pulling due to the deadline and not being able to get a good piece of leather shipped to us in time.  I finally got it worked out to a satisfactory state.  Learned a lesson also about using cheap leather and keeping a reserve on hand.

We have also been trying to get Buster healed up.  He got an ear infection a few weeks ago and it has been really resistant to the meds.  Then it spread to his other ear.  The vet extended his treatment on the original ear 2 more weeks (5 total) and added the other ear it's own 3 week treatment.  The new ear appears to be responding already.  The poor guy hates to see me coming at him with the bottle of meds by this point.  Evidently getting rid of a yeast infection in the ear is a hard matter to begin with and the weather isn't helping since it has been very humid.  Makes it hard to dry out like it needs too.  I think Buster has been to the vet 4 times this year when he usually only goes once.  It hasn't been cheap either.  A refill on his meds for his ear was 54$ and that didn't include an office visit and all that entails.  We rarely get out of the vets office for less than 200$ every time we go.  I expect there will be more vet visits as he ages.  He is 12 now and starting to show his age. 

Speaking of humid weather.  It is not only humid here, it has been hitting record highs of 96-97*.  Tomorrow is the first day of fall and we are still having crazy hot weather.  I don't look forward to cold weather but some nice, dry cooler weather would be a great thing right now.  It appears the higher temps will be at least through this weekend.  It's great for my tomato plants and has helped them get some early fruit.  The way things have been going with this crazy weather I expect we will get an early freeze and kill off my tomatoes before I even harvest lol.  Crazier things have happened.  

Once we deliver Kim's project, I think we may just take a day trip down to the beach again.  That is if the weather cooperates and is a bit cooler.

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