HoundBlog

Well, our Thanksgiving weekend had mixed blessings.

Butterfly was Best of Winners on Friday for a 4 point major (the second major of the required 2 to complete her championship) and now only needs 4 singles to finish. Teddy was Best of Winners on both Friday and Sunday (he wasn’t entered on Saturday) for his first two points. Saber who was entered Saturday was Reserve Winners Dog as he skipped around the ring instead of gaiting properly. He made everyone including the judge laugh as he was just too cute for words, but we will have to work on him over the next couple of weeks to get him out of doing skips 🙂

The down side was Lance, my Champion Chinese Crested came up Saturday morning screaming in pain and unable to walk. Took him to the vet’s in Montgomery where they diagnosed a degenerated disc. They gave him a shot of steriod which relieved the pain and inflammation and he was much improved Sunday morning when we went to pick him up. I took him in to our regular vet Monday who disagreed with the diagnosis as his symptoms were one-sided which isn’t usually the case with disc degeneration, but more in line with a brain injury or stroke. He’s still on steriods to keep the inflammation down but will be weaned gradually over the next 10 days. He is almost 100% back to normal as of yesterday afternoon.

I did get a turkey breast, dressing, brussels sprouts, rolls and sweet potatoes cooked for dinner on Saturday, so while we didn’t get turkey on turkey day, we did get some that weekend.

I took a vacation day yesterday to clean house – it was a mess when we returned and smelled awful. My carpet cleaner decided to quit working properly, so it has to go into the repair shop today. Thankfully, I did get one room done before it died, but still need to do the living room.

The two baby cockatiels are almost completely feathered out and look so pretty! I’m going to have to rearrange my birds, though, as 5 is too many for that cage and I will have to move some to another cage and there isn’t enough room in there for another cage. Ken suggested we move them into the dining room but I worry about the dogs aggravating them when we’re not there, so we’ll have to figure out something that will give a buffer zone if we move them out there.

Got a nice post card from Eddie — I also got the gift he sent. It’s a small silk rug or mat that is just gorgeous! Thank you son! It’s in the camper right now as that’s the safest place for it until I can get a hanger for it. I think I’m going to hang it in our bedroom since I really don’t have much of a “theme” in there as far as colors go. It looks pretty good in the camper, though, so it may stay in there. We’ll have to see.

Well, that’s got you all caught up on my life 😛

Love to all,

Margaret