Not enough

It has been mentioned to me (despite the fact that I am not home much) that I am not blogging much. So here I am waiting for a meeting after work, blogging from my phone.

I do have an update on Legend's teeth. The extraction is healing well but she has already broken the cap off the other tooth. So she will need a root canal or to have the tooth pulled later.

There are only 4 days until we leave for the specialty. I am excited but I think I need to do a lot of practicing over the weekend!

It has been hectic week at work and I am very glad to be off tomorrow.

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Three Things

1. Legend's teeth-my boss, who is really into dentistry, took a look at Legend's mouth yesterday and thought he might be able to root canal the teeth so we delayed the procedure until today. Once under anesthesia and after looking at the x-rays we found that one tooth had to be extracted as it was broken into several pieces so I went ahead and pulled that one myself. The other was broke just far enough to miss the pulp canal and so he sealed it and put a cap on it instead of doing a root canal. She's still a little sleepy but doing fine.

2. I was recently quoted in an article in the Springfield Newsleader. Click here to read it if you want. I was kind of disappointed at the tiny paragraph I was in since I was on the phone with the reporter for quite some time but what can you do-it's their story.

3. Gas is $2.79 here :)

Birthday

Today we slept in, went to church, did a few errands and then to the Ozark Craft fair. It was a nice day but the only thing I really liked cost $275 which was obviously more than the $20 I won last night. So we split a buffalo burger, a fried snickers bar (which was not as good as the frozen cheesecake on a stick that I had wanted) and then went home. I ate yesterday's leftovers and fell asleep on the couch. Then I took the dogs out to play in the yard and Legend promptly smashed her teeth into the concrete step diving for her football. She, of course, didn't miss a beat but I checked her mouth and she had badly broken one incisor tooth and chipped another. At least the bad one will have to be pulled tomorrow, maybe both of them. Thanks Legend, thanks.

Gambling

I wanted to go to the casino for my birthday (which is tomorrow) so we headed over to Oklahoma where the casinos are and spent an evening playing slots. We each started with $40 and I ended up with $100 and Jerry ended up with nothing. So if you do the math that's $20 in winnings. Not awesome but could be a lot worse. Maybe I can spend my $20 at the Ozark craft fair tomorrow.

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Nothing

We're not doing anything tonight. We're resting. Sadly, we have to work tomorrow but then we get to do fun stuff the rest of the weekend.

As we prepare for the Border Collie Specialty in a few weeks Legend seems to be doing great in agility lately. She was really good in class on Wednesday and I was able to rear cross the weave poles (there were 6). Tonight at home she did all 12 poles while being handled from each side, instead of popping out at pole 10 or 11.

There was a possum in our barn again tonight. Not sure it it's the same one we had last year or not. This one looks lighter in color.

Here is a picture of Legend I took tonight-slightly altered and improved through the use of computer software. This time I used the soften portrait option. I thought it looked nice. I didn't quite get Zodiac's feet cropped out though.

My Side of the Table

When a client enters a veterinary clinic exam room (at least ours) there is an obvious "client side" and an obvious "doctor side" of the exam table. Sometimes clients stand on my side of the table. That's ok, I'm not married to that side of the table, it just makes it hard to reach for supplies and equipment if I have to reach around the client every time. Most people will eventually move when they realize things are not going smoothly. This is, however, only the beginning of some of the unusual behaviors people exhibit in a veterinary clinic examining room. People somehow find it acceptable or helpful to do all of the following...

1. Allow the animal to repeatedly climb back up their shoulder or into their arms during the exam forcing me to repeatedly drag the animal back to the center of the table, climb over the table and up the client's shoulder after the animal, or disrupt the technician from typing so they can hold the animal even though the owner is right there and clearly hasn't caught on to the fact that I have now retrieved the animal 5 times. I don't know what people are like when they take their child to the pediatrician but I doubt they expect that they won't have to let go of the child and put it on the table at some point.

2. At the opposite end of the spectrum are those who try too hard to restrain their own animal (whether is needs it or not) and assist with the exam by holding the animal in unusual and completely unhelpful positions. Prying open your dog's mouth, lifting up its ears, and throwing it down on it side so I can see the rash on the abdomen are all unnecessary.

3. Sit in a chair and watch while we try to catch their loose/freaky/growling pet or sitting in a chair while we try to hang on to a very wiggly pet.

4. Expect that we will crawl under the chair to retrieve and or examine their pet (when was the last time your doctor crawled under a table to examine you?)

5. Want their aggressive dog that bit the last vet to be examined unmuzzled (even after it tried to eat a person in the lobby)

6. Want their large dog that they won't/can't hold still examined on the floor instead of the table.

7. Announce after you have looked closely at the dog's teeth-"he didn't bite today!"

8. Let the 80 dog they just helped lift on the table jump off in the 30 seconds it takes the tech to go get the doctor-like they didn't know we would want it back up there?

9. Allow their child to place food or pacifiers dropped on the floor back in their mouth (we mop a lot but still-gross).

I'm sure the list goes on.

Busy

That is what we have been lately. Seems we have something going on every night and then we spent the weekend in Nashville and got back very late on Sunday night. Saturday we visited the Country Music Hall of Fame and did some sight-seeing and shopping topped off with dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. Sunday we wen to the Vikings/Titans game. The Vikings lost (that's who we went to see-Jerry is a big fan) and we got plenty baked sitting in the direct sun and 80 degree heat for 4 hours! It was still a fun trip though. The top picture, obviously, is the Titan's Stadium-L.P. Field and the bottom one is at Centennial Park in Nashville. It's a beautiful day here so I better go take the dogs outside for awhile!

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Fall

Jerry suggested we do some decorating of the house for fall so today I actually dug out a few fall decorations I had bought a few years ago as well as digging around to find this ceramic light-up Halloween decoration I had painted years ago (I mean a lot of years ago!). The lightbulb still works!



I also picked up some mums while at the grocery store today to use for the front porch. I stuck this one in the middle of a welcome sign we already had and then added a few bundles of straw I made from stuff we have in the barn and ta-da....

Our every day welcome sign is now "seasonal"

Then I planted the other one in my metal wash tub. I usually plant pansies in it in the spring but I tried seeds this year and it didn't work. I added some more straw to complete the autumn theme.

Here is how it all looks together