Conehead comes home

Angie and I picked up 50-50 from the vet today. Poor kitty. The vet thinks she had a piece of gravel in her eye and an ulcer grew around it. He removed the growth and she should be okay. Right now, though, she has to learn to eat and drink wearing the dreaded cone. Poor kitty.

More Bad News for 50-50

Our cat, 50-50, is in the hospital again. The ulcer on her eye is worse and she will either have to have it cut out or the eye removed. We're not sure what will happen, but the vet assures us it is not life threatening and she will be fine. I hope so.

50-50

Last Thursday I took 50-50 to the vet because her eye was looking infected. Turned out she had an ulcer on her eye plus an infected tooth. The vet wasn't sure if the infection had spread from one to the other. The ulcer turned out to be a melanoma and was removed. We won't know for sure if it was benign until we get the lab report back. We took 50-50 home the same day and have been treating her eye with drops, plus an oral antibiotic. Cross your fingers.

Snow was softly falling in the morning when I got up. There were a few white patches on the ground, not much, but I did see flakes falling and that counts as snow. It was 35 degrees so the snow didn't stay any length of time. By 7 o'clock the sun was out and the snow was no more. I took Flash for his walk on the trail and it started to rain before we got home.

Flash was soaking wet so I put him in his crate while I got a towel to dry him off. He didn't make a fuss at all. I thought he might whine, but he didn't.

Today was horseback riding lesson combined with dog training. We worked with Flash to get him desensitized to horses. You can read about it on his blog: http://flashthebordercollie.blogspot.com.

Dennis comes home tonight from his ski trip. He'll come in late, but Flash will be overjoyed to see him. Tomorrow he can run along with Dennis as he rides his bike to the office.

Garage

Eugenio is working on leveling the earth where the garage is going to go. He also pulled out the tree that was in the way. All we're waiting for are the permits. The County Building Department is so slow and persnickety, I wonder if I'll see this garage built in my lifetime.

Ski Trip

Dennis is off on another ski trip so it's just me, 50-50, and Flash holding down the fort. Poor Flash misses his Daddy. Mom is no fun.

New TV

Our new TV cabinet came Saturday so Dennis and I cruised down to Costco to buy the 60" Samsung HD TV we've been looking at. It also happens to be 3D. Seems like you can't buy a TV without 3D anymore. Then we returned home and Dennis and Gary moved our old wall system to Mom's house. Mom could only use the center piece, so the other two pieces are going to Kristy. We are very good about recycling.

Around 4 p.m. Dennis came back to set up our system. I fixed dinner while he worked. After the dinner break he went back to work, finally finishing at 8 p.m. We watched a couple of programs, then sat in the jacuzzi before going to bed.

It was windy again yesterday and this morning (Sunday) it's still blowng our there. We got up at 4 a.m., probably because the wind woke us. Or we just weren't tired anymore.