
My Nephew is a sweet young man. Thank goodness. He thinks Zoey is beautiful even with all her shaved area's and scars. So do I.
Thunderstorms roared through town all night, sonic booms jerking you awake from a fitful sleep. Listening for the hail that would spell doom for your newly planted flowers. Listening for the sound like a train that would signal the tornado they kept warning us to watch full. With all that I had little sleep. They are predicting more severe storms today. Today, the day I was suppose to be sitting outside happily bidding on some beautiful glass and china. Sigh.
Spent yesterday, no surprise here, at my MIL. I did her laundry and then decided the blankets needed washing also. Only to find out her dryer had broke. No heat. So we dragged it home here to dry. I cleaned out her linen drawer downstairs and put some of her clothes down in it. That way she wouldn't have to climb the stairs on the days she feels bad. Thankfully she has been feeling good for a the last few days. Too bad the weather is so wet as she would love to be sitting outside.
She gave me some beautiful dollies and dresser scarfs. I was going through her linen while moving it. Brother, she has at least 40 tableclothes. When would she ever need so many? Many looked exactly the same but are different sizes depending on how many leaves she had in the table. My MIL loved to entertain and I remember many a party with 20 to 40 people there. Sad that is all gone. Dwindled over the years as people died and moved. Now just us at holiday's. All the beautiful china and dishes stored away.
Well darn, I didn't mean this to be a depressing post. Sorry. Today we will probably go back to her house as she has more company from Missouri. Hope they got past the storms OK last night as they arrived late. I will leave you with another of my new flowers I planted. I planted lots of petunia's asthe deer don't seem to like them plus another I plant ever year which always does well, blooms all season.
We get to the vet and someone had a huge pit bull which immediately lunged at Zoey and scared her to death. Very aggressive dog. They hurried up and put that dog in a room. We were talking to the vet and he said unfortunately those type of dogs and certain types of owners go hand in hand. They want to look big and bad and they want a big bad dog. But some owners do little about training their big bad dogs and dog bites are up.
Anyway on to Zoey's lumps. There are 7 lumps, 3 he is concerned about. Most are doggy fatty tumors. Unfortunately 3 of them could be something else. So Zoey is going to be having surgery. She has a new lump on her lip that he is very concerned about. I asked him if he thought it was cancer and he carefully said he will see what the lab says. The way he said it really worried me. Also we have let Zoey get too fat over the winter. So diet time for the dog and me. I am glad we weren't there last month as she was even bigger then but we have been cutting down and walking more.
I just don't know what I will do if this is bad news so I guess I will just try not to think about it. We will probably have it done in 2 weeks so I will be off again as I don't think they can get her in next week. Maybe, we shall see. Keep your fingers crossed for us.
They cancelled my Sunday auction I have been waiting for because of this rain. I am so bummed.
Betty is doing well today. So instead of laundry and since it stopped raining for awhile we are going to get our flowers. We also took a nice walk with Zoey and she got to play in the water puddles which she loves. Makes her a smelly wet dog but who cares.
All week while I worked the weather was beautiful and I looked out the windows from work and dreamed about my days off riding my bike, sitting outside while Rick grilled, planting my flowers..... The reality! Rain. So far every day. Predicted all weekend. Predicted on the day of my much anticipated outdoor auction. No bike rides, no planting flowers, no sitting outside with the sun warming my heart and toasting my skin. Sigh. Well.....no one ever said life would be fair.
My MIL has had a good couple of days. She wants to come over here to see some wedding pictures I got from a relative. They are on-line. She hasn't wanted to leave the house for awhile so that is good. My dog has missed her. I should have her for supper but what do you feed a woman who only drinks boost and pudding for a meal? Maybe macaroni and cheese with a custard pie for desert. Mild and easy to get down and I make a mean custard pie. I will see what she feels like.
I had my tetanus, whooping cough shot Thursday. Boy is my arm sore. I had them do it in my numb arm so I wonder how much worse it would be if I had gotten it on my other arm. They say whooping cough is really on the increase and they worry nurses may become carries from all the exposure so they gave us all free shots, Oh goody. I hadn't had a tetanus shot since 84 though so it was time.
The baby eagles are really getting big aren't they. The experts predict they will start flying around Memorial day. I can't wait.
Today I am going to do some house work for my MIL. Wash her bedding and vacuum and dust. Her house usually stays pretty clean. Here, I have a gravel road so it is impossible to keep up with the dust. I have to dust at least twice a day to keep up with it. The rain will at least keep that down. See, I can be positive about all this rain. My silver lining. And I know the farmers love it.
Well, I am going to end this. Sales have been very good in my shop so I have another package to pack and then I am going to visit your journals. At 10 I have to take Zoey to the vet. I am worried about her. She is getting lumpy all over. Hopefully just old dog lumps. See ya all later. I am off until next Thursday!
Aren't these graphics just toooooo cute!