Thursday, May 18, 2006
In The Country!
On the 16th Brandy went to the vet’s and had her operation. She is now officially an it. She was a little sleepy, little tail dragging, that night but the next day the curl came back and the steps started getting quicker. I was given a pain pill for her of which she was to take 1/4 of it every day for four days. I was instructed to put it in a little peanut butter if she wouldn’t keep it in her mouth. Yep you guess it. That little piece of pill went into the mouth several times and ended up on the blanket the same number. Finally I gave up and pulled out the peanut butter. Right into the mouth and on into the tummy. So yesterday we just started the peanut buttered pill and she took it right down. This morning she is almost back to normal and on the 30th she and Spirit go back to Dr. Buck ‘s office for grooming.
Jay is scheduled to see our doctor (not the Vet) tomorrow to check on the recovery of the bout with pneumonia. He was out planting seedlings in his barrels yesterday and mowed part of the lawn. He is still coughing in the morning so we need to have the follow up done.
The flowers on today’s post came from a grocery store. I felt like flowers and my so I just pick them up. I never cease to be amazed that they last so much longer than they used to when coming from a market and they are cheaper too.
Well in a couple of weeks my dearly beloved turns Medicare age! Finally he will have caught up to me. I wonder if this is going to make a difference in the medical costs? Time will tell.
I’m getting excited because we are getting quotes on a new roof and replacing our sorry old deck. The roof is slowly showing signs that it may need a new coat soon. We have learned from past experience that you replace it or find your ceiling on a living room chair. The deck was in sad shape when we bought the dome in 1999 with wood posts cracking, nailed railings trying to pull loose, and the floor sagging. Soon, very soon we will be poorer but our home will be a bit nicer. Yes!!!!
It looks like rain out there again today but I’m not complaining because every thing is greener. The lilac bushes that I put in last year seem to be coming along and a few of the trees from two years ago are still with me. Sadly the lawn mower and some of the animals found a lot of them too tasty to leave alone. Such is life in the country!
