Memorial Day ~ Black Squirrel ~ Butler's Boo Boo

I took a holiday from blogging last week.  I spent part of the weekend watching military movies on AMC.  I watched part of "The Dirty Dozen", don't know what it is about this movie but when I see it's on I have to watch it or parts of it - classic movie.  Then "The Green Berets" were on I don't know how many times over the holiday weekend.  Everytime Mike and I would see it was on I would say how I didn't want to watch it because John Wayne died at the end - to which Mike would say it wasn't John Wayne, it was the other guy that died at the end - so we wouldn't watch it.  But one time we did happen to catch the end to show me that John Wayne was alive at the end of the movie - I wished Mike and I could have had this "argument" over the weekend.  And then the icing on the cake was Clint Eastwood in "Heartbreak Ridge" - one of his better movies in my opinion.  Recon!

Butler's boo boo on his butt has been interesting.  We went to the vet like three weeks ago to have his cut cleaned and three staples put in.  It was healing nicely - but the meds he was taking were making his poo smushy.  After getting up early last Sunday morning to using my green machine twice to clean up poo on the carpet before 6:00 a.m. I decided I needed to do something about this - so I called the emergency hospital to verify if there was something better than rice to feed Butler to help settle his tummy and make his poo solid - rice was the best bet.  So around 6:00 a.m. I'm off to HyVee to buy rice...for my dog...and I was not a pretty sight at that time of the morning let me tell you.  Last Tuesday back to the vet for a check on the boo boo and it was doing perfectly - until Wednesday when he fell and popped two staples out.  Then Thursday he fell and split the wound clear open - so back to the vet on Friday (I think it was Friday) to get eight staples.  At least the vet said the wound had healed nicely inside out - the skin just needed to close now.

I was very excited to find a furry, black visitor in my back yard a week ago - check out the pictures.

I don't know if I'm getting any headway on the snakes in the yard but I'm getting really good at following them slither across the front and back yards spraying them with wasp spray or weed killer.  Tonight there was one slithering in the round area where one of my hibiscus sits so off I head for the wasp spray.  I spray it between the bricks, then it would stick its head out, so I'd spray it on the head.  After 2-3 times of peek-a-boo the snake decided to come out of hiding and charge me - bad move on its part.  I proceeded to continue spraying it with wasp spray until I had chased it into my neighbor's yard......

This week is spring cleanup week in WDM where you can put pretty much anything (within reason) out to be picked up on your regular trash pick up day.  I had a full-sized sheet of drywall that had been in my basement (in the way) for almost two years so I woman-handled it out of my basement, through the garage and to the end of my driveway - not an easy feet but I got it done and a while later someone had a new piece of drywall.  I've put other things out with some finding new homes and others will be picked up with the trash tomorrow.

The clean up bug has hit me so I cleaned out the bottom of the built-in china hutch in the living room.  Two of the three drawers were Mike's junk drawers that I had put off going through - but they are now clean - the whole lower part of the china hutch is clean and organized.  Then I cleaned out the drawers in Mike's night stand by his side of the bed.  Definitely brought back memories going through everything.

Below is another goofy picture of Butler hamming it for the camera and the very last photo is his shaved behind with three staples in it so that picture may not be something everyone would want to look at :)  Not imagine eight staples in a straight line on his poor behind...........