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Gosh! 1/4 of the year is gone already! I just don’t know where the time goes anymore!

I used Ma’s twisty tool in the garden last Thursday. It works good, but gives you a work out as well. I certainly can use the workout, but have to go at it in spurts as I get tired pretty quickly from it. I’ve gotten about a third of the garden weeded, so have quite a bit to go. I’m ashamed to admit that the flower garden is pretty over run with weeds. 😥 It will probably be Saturday before I get back to it as I don’t know when I’ll have time during the week.

How about Ma’s prediction of snow for Easter?? She was spot-on, wasn’t she?? 😆 She wants a job on t.v. as the weather girl 😛 and she certainly predicts the weather as well as the best of them, don’t you agree?

I had to send Bruno to the dog house in the sky Thursday. He had been acting like he didn’t feel well and I took him to one vet Saturday before last. This one pulled blood and did a blood test which didn’t reveal anything. He put him on lasix as he felt like he heard fluid in his lungs, but by Monday, he was no better. I called his office and they wanted me to wait a few more days, but I decided to call this other vet instead. I took Bruno in on Thursday and x-rays revealed that he had collapsed lungs. The vet didn’t know how he had survived as long as he had since he had quite a bit of air in his abdomen which was preventing him from re-inflating them. The vet drew out over 2 liters of air from his abdomen, retook the x-rays but didn’t see any improvement. There really was nothing else to do but give him peace from his struggle for breath and he did go very peacefully and easily. I brought him home and buried him with all my other dogs in the dog graveyard over by the woods.

Bruno came to us 2 years ago when his family had to relocate to Mississippi. They ended up displaced by Katrina and spent 10 months in a motel. So, I guess you could say that he had 2 more years of life by coming to us than he might have had if he had gone with them. He was already 12 when he came to live with us and had lots of lumps all over his body that were mostly lipomas (fatty tumors that are usually benign). The vet thinks he had some internal tumors, too, that were not benign and ones on his lungs ruptured which is what led to the pneumothorax (air in the abdomen). Surgery to remove any remaining tumors and seal the resultant holes might have worked, but it was very doubtful.

The house seems quieter without him. He was always pretty vocal about getting meals on time and ordering the other dogs around. He was quite a personality.

Well, this has gone on way too long. I need to get back to work.

Love to all,

Margaret