Peg Ostrander
Gus
pet: Peg Ostrander
Dog
born Aug 15, 2005 · 21 on Oct 5, 2026breed Golden Retriever
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What the account says about Gus
42 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
Jan 9
First entry. I have been putting the household into this program since New Year…
…'s, on account of the furnace. It quit on December 29, the man from Fitch & Rowe asked whether it was under warranty, and neither of us could produce the paper. (I found it on January 3 in the cookbook cupboard. It ran out in 2001, except for the heat exchanger, which has four months left and was not the part that br…
Feb 3
No school yesterday and none today. The snow began Tuesday afternoon, and by We…
…dnesday morning the drift against the garage door reached the handle. R. measured 17 inches on the picnic table with the folding rule and wrote it on the calendar. He cleared our drive and Marlene's with the snowblower and came in with ice in his eyebrows.
Eight of us were at Lorraine's on Tuesday night for "Major P…
Feb 19
Gus 76 lb. Dr. Aylward says 72.
May 15
Owen Raymond Sievert, born yesterday, May 14, at 3:52 in the morning. Eight pou…
…nds one ounce. Ellen is well. I am writing this in her guest room in Naperville with Gus asleep across the doorway.
We were up north. It was our second weekend at the cabin. I was down at the shore at a quarter to six with my coffee, on the bench by the boathouse, because the loons came back to the island on Thursda…
2015
Jan 25
Book club met here on the 6th for "All the Light We Cannot See." Eleven chairs,…
…and for once everyone had finished it, Dee included. Helen thought it sentimental. Connie cried describing the ending and had to stop. I think it is a beautifully made thing, a little too pleased with its own sentences.
Gus is nine and has begun to take the stairs one at a time.
Sunday calls: three for three.
Apr 15
Second diabetes class tonight. The dietitian is about twenty-six and holds up r…
…ubber models of food. R. took notes in his field book and asked her to define "moderate."
At home he has made a chart. The morning readings are plotted in pencil against the day of the month, with a line ruled across at the number he is aiming for, and it is taped inside the cupboard door where the coffee is. He wal…
May 12
Gus - annual visit
Jun 5
Kransekake for Kate's wedding: how it is made, and how it is getting to Portlan…
…d.
The dough: 500 g almond flour (half blanched, half not), 500 g powdered sugar, 4 egg whites. Knead until it holds. Rest overnight in the refrigerator.
Roll ropes as thick as my finger and lay them in the ring forms (18 rings, six forms, buttered and dusted with semolina). 400 degrees, 10 to 12 minutes, until just…
Sep 16
Finch Meadow Veterinary - pet portal
Birdie's vaccination record and the reorder button for her heartworm chews.
2017
May 10
Gus, at Dr. Aylward's yesterday.
- 71 lb, down from 78.
- Arthritis in both hips. Carprofen 75 mg, twice a day, WITH FOOD. Never with any other pain pill, human or dog.
- Watch for: vomiting, black stools, not eating. Stop the pill and telephone.
- Bloodwork was good and is to be repeated in six months because of the medicine.
- Walks: shorter and mo…
May 10
Gus - annual visit, bloodwork, carprofen
Jun 12
The first Monday. At 7:45, when the first bell rings, I was standing in my own…
…kitchen holding a dish towel.
R. came in from the shop at ten for coffee and found me reading at the table in daylight. He looked at me over his glasses and said, "Now you know."
Otherwise I have walked Gus around the loop, slowly, at his pace; put the spices back in alphabetical order; telephoned Lorraine, who lau…
Sep 23
Leaving Tuesday for seventeen days.
Gus, to Ellen's on Sunday:
- carprofen, 34 tablets counted out (two a day, with food), plus four spare
- his bed, the ramp, the blue bowl
- 15 lb of his food
- Dr. Aylward's number, and a note saying Ellen may decide anything that needs deciding
House: Marlene has the key and the mail. Furnace set to 60. Water heater…
Nov 4
Lutefisk dinner. For the first time in thirty-one years I rolled lefse without…
…having taught all week first.
Pastor Kristin had lutefisk for the first time in her life at the two o'clock seating. She chewed for a long while and said it was "very much itself."
Gus did not get up when we came home; he thumped his tail on the floor and waited for us to come to him, and R. got down on the kitchen…
2018
Feb 4
Gulf Shores: arrived yesterday at 4:40, two days and 1,048 miles by the odomete…
…r. Notes on the place for next year, if there is a next year.
- Egret Pointe, unit 407. Wade, the building manager, is in the office off the lobby from 8 to 4 and has the spare key card.
- Parking space 31. The truck fits with four inches to spare and Ray measured.
- Two elevators. The left one is slow and the right…
May 17
Gus - annual visit, bloodwork, carprofen refill
Jul 7
Family week, thirteen of us, and the new kitchen held. Theo is five months old…
…and was handed up and down the dock all week. Hannah is nine and read to Gus on the dock yesterday, an entire chapter book, holding up the pictures for him to see.
Gus cannot manage the steps down to the lake. On Sunday he stood at the top, looked at the children in the water, and whined. So R. carries him down in t…
Jul 8
Family week 2018, practical. Thirteen, with Theo (five months).
- Sleeping: Kate, Samir and the baby had the north bedroom; David's four went to the tent and the sofa bed between them. It will not do for another year. The shed question is open again.
- Loons: two hatched, one left by the Fourth. Nobody saw what happened.
- Gus cannot do the steps to the lake. For next year: a ramp…
Sep 9
Gus has stopped doing the loop. He walks to the corner, stands, and looks back…
…at the house, and I take him home. He was thirteen last month. Dr. Aylward says the hips are bone on bone.
R. built him a ramp over the back steps on Thursday: treated lumber, a non-slip surface, at a slope he calculated. It took him forty minutes, and he did not say one word while he did it. Gus uses it.
Oct 14
Closed the cabin, a week early. Gus cannot do those steps at all now.
The boat went to Pike Bay on Friday. Earl will blow the lines tomorrow. I did the inside list; R. did the water; Bev sent us off with a jar of pickled beans.
The loons are gone from the lake. The last one left about the first of the month.
On US-51 south of Tomahawk a gravel truck threw a stone and put a star in the…
Oct 15
Closed October 13-14, a week early, on Gus's account.
For the insurance: Sunday, October 14, about 3:15 in the afternoon, southbound on US-51 a few miles south of Tomahawk. A gravel truck ahead of us threw a stone. It struck the CR-V's windshield low on the passenger side and left a star about the size of a nickel. No other damage.
If it runs, telephone Linda Schroedl;…
Oct 20
Gus has not eaten since yesterday morning. He could not get up the ramp last ni…
…ght, and R. carried him in. Today he has lain on the rug by the back door with his eyes following us and has had a little water from my hand.
R. has not left the kitchen all day. He is cleaning his reels, on newspaper, on the floor, where Gus can see him.
I telephoned the clinic. Dr. Aylward will come to the house…
Oct 22
Gus died this afternoon, a little after four, on the kitchen floor, on his own…
…blanket. He was thirteen years and two months old.
Dr. Aylward came to the house as she said she would, with a bag and a young assistant, and knelt down on the linoleum in her good slacks. She examined him properly and said what we knew. Then she explained what she would do and what we would see, in order.
R. sat o…
Oct 23
Gus. He had not been able to get up the back steps since Friday and had stopped…
…eating. Dr. Aylward came to the house at four. He went with his head on Ray's boot. Thirteen years and two months. His ashes are in the cedar box Ray made, on the den shelf.
Oct 24
Gus. The things that have to be done.
1. The clinic: paid. His ashes come back to Finch Meadow on Saturday and Ray will fetch them.
2. The carprofen: 22 tablets left. Back to the clinic; they take them.
3. His licence with the city: it simply lapses in the spring.
4. Telephone Tess Carpenter's mother.
5. The food (most of a 30 lb bag) and the ramp for the…
Oct 25
Gus was swimming out past the island, strongly, the way he did at four. I calle…
…d him from the dock and what came out of my mouth was the loon call, the long one. He turned his head and kept going. R. was beside me untying the boat and could not get the knot, and said, "He knows the way back." Then it was only the wake.
Oct 26
Gus - house call and private cremation
Oct 28
The walk around the loop takes twenty-six minutes without a dog. It has taken f…
…orty for two years.
R. has made a box. Red cedar, dovetailed, about the size of a loaf of bread. He was in the shop from Tuesday to Friday. He did not show it to me. The ashes came back yesterday, and they are in it, on the shelf in the den beside the turntable.
Nov 22
When are we getting another dog? You can't just have a dog bed and no dog. It's…
…sad for the bed.
Nov 22
Thanksgiving here: Ellen's four, and Marlene. Hannah is ten and asked at the ta…
…ble, straight out, when we are getting another dog. Ellen said, "Hannah." R. said, "We're not," and passed the potatoes. I do not agree with R. about the dog.
Afterward I found him in the den with Owen, showing him how the dovetails on the box were cut. Owen is seven and asked whether Gus was really in there. R. sai…
2019
Jan 16
R.'s sugar is up. The number from yesterday's labs is the highest he has had, a…
…nd Dr. Raghavan has raised the metformin. "The holidays," he told her. She said, "Which ones?"
I think it is Gus. He walked two miles a day behind that dog for thirteen years, and since October he has walked to the garage.
We leave for Gulf Shores on Saturday, two weeks earlier than last year.
Jun 2
Gus Two. Because he was one and she's the next one. It's just math.
Jun 8
We have a dog. Her name is Birdie. She is a yellow Labrador, nine weeks old, fo…
…urteen pounds, and she is asleep in a laundry basket beside my chair with one ear inside out.
R. said in November that we were not getting another dog, and said it again at Christmas and at Easter. Then on a Tuesday in April he came in from the shop and said that a man in his woodworking guild knew of a litter comin…
Jun 12
Birdie: home June 8, nine weeks old. From Carol Hefty's farm near Lodi. Her fir…
…st visit to Dr. Aylward was yesterday.
- 14.2 lb. Sound heart, clear eyes, a clean bill.
- Second puppy shot given. Third on July 9, rabies at 16 weeks.
- Microchipped. The number is on the clinic's sheet.
- Heartworm and flea pills begin now, by weight, monthly.
- Spay at about nine months. Dr. Aylward prefers to w…
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| Name | Gus |
|---|---|
| Breed | Golden Retriever |
| Date of birth | 2005-08-15 |
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q174 When is the dog's rabies shot due?