I got half way through the office yesterday and decided I'm on a mission to find those little, white trees that ladies decorate Halloween trees, Easter egg trees, etc., that can sit on a table - I'm going to have a greyhound tree and here are the greyhound ornaments. I heard from a friend that Hobby Lobby already has those trees in stock...... And yes, those are little greyhound angels and devils that will go on my greyhound tree.
I can't remember if I shared this picture last time or not but I know I posted it on FB. I come home one day and find Butler buried under the couch cushions, I hear him barking and all I can see are cushions going up and down with his barking. I was laughing so hard that by the time I got my phone camera ready to take his picture he had unburied himself and here he is.......
Butler's back legs haven't worked very well for over a year, so he has a tendency to fall down a lot. Here he is sitting on the back patio just waiting for me to pick him up. And yes - if you look closely that is a little mound of poop by his behind and tail..........
Butler's butt boo boo has healed just fine but he has another boo boo I found Thursday night - on his right shoulder. When he falls down, he then flops over on to one of his sides and he must have cut himself when he flopped on his right side. The next two pictures are GRAPHIC of his open sore. The first one isn't that bad because he has a flap of skin that I'm holding up to take the picture of his boo boo to email to my vet.
By the time I took the picture above yesterday and the time I took the picture below yesterday was maybe three hours. As I'm talking to my vet on the phone yesterday - while Butler has fallen in the back yard - we're talking about how to deal with his loose poop and new boo boo issue - when I realize the flap is GONE from the boo boo. After talking to the vet and saying I'll hurry up to their office (it's four blocks away) to get more poop hardening medicine - I find the flap of skin laying on the cement next to Butler. So I picked it up and took it to show the vet...... I'm cleaning his wound with hydrogen peroxide and putting triple anti-biotic ointment on it. And as I was told leaving the vet's office yesterday - make sure no flies lay eggs in the wound. It only takes seconds for them to do this and then I'd have maggots crawling on Butler. So while the wound is open, and I take him outside, I stand by him and watch him like a hawk to be sure no flies go near the wound.....
Below is a pic of my butterfly bush from a couple of days ago - it amazes me how HUGE it is. But since I didn't cut it back last fall or this spring......
A pic today of one of Yellow's blooms. And Stick looks like he can start blooming anytime. I can't wait to see how large those hibiscus blooms are!
I finally decided it was time to do something with my shower - it's had a 17" vertical crack in the back panel for 20+ years. I get one goober to show up a week ago Friday that has worked on showers for over 30 years. He jabs at the crack to show me that there is space between the shower and the wall - and keeps jabbing and jabbing and jabbing at the crack. I was almost ready to start jabbing at him if he made the crack any bigger. This week I had Bath Fitters come out to see what they could do and long story short - I'm getting a new shower in 4-8 weeks. They will tear the old shower out, take it away, do any necessary prep and/or repair work to the shower frame, update my pipes to copper, install a pressure valve so when someone flushes the toidey I won't get scalded in the shower, and more stuff.
There have been different times I wished I had a small fountain in the back yard and one day at Earl Mays I asked if they had solar fountains - nope. So I go online to do some research and found Serenity Health (or something like that) and they have 2-3-4 different solar fountain styles to pick from but TONS of colors. I ordered the Red Lava one and it finally came last week. I tried to put the frame together but just didn't have quite enough hand strength to squeeze the cast iron frame together for the last connection to firmly slip into place. I put the frame in my trunk and after church my small group leader helped me get it together. I'll see tomorrow how well the solar part works after it has some energy stored up. My goal is to remove the round rock area you see behind it and put the fountain there.
I've been having some issues with Butler this past week where I was getting extremely mad at him with having to deal with his bad legs, loose poop and everything - even though none of this is his fault. I wondered if I should put him down but after a couple of days he seemed to get his old personality back and we'll take it one day at a time.
That said - I texted a friend to see if she wanted to meet at Orange Leaf yesterday afternoon after we both got things done at our homes - of course she said yes. I had to make a few stops along the route to Orange Leaf with one stop being Petco at Jordan Creek to see if they had some type of "band aid" that would stick to Butler's boo boo better than the band aids I had. While I was there, a rescue group had cats and dogs available for adoption. I have never been open to even looking at a dog while I still have Butler because I wasn't sure what would happen to him if I brought another dog into the house. Would he turn mean or would he die from a broken heart - meaning die sooner than he would without the other dog.
Well I saw Cruise/Cruz (not sure how they spell her name) and fell in love. I kept saying out loud to walk away, I shouldn't be doing this but something kept me coming back to her. She is over a year old and a shepherd mix. She is very shy but loveable. I couldn't believe I completed paperwork for her to start the adoption process. The rescue group will check me out with my vet and then schedule a home visit to see what my home and yard is like. The gal working with Cruz is fostering her and while Cruz was out of her crate she would let me pet her but that was about it - it takes a while for her to realize not all humans will hurt her. As I was talking to her foster mom, Cruz came up to me and sniffed me. The mom just looked at me and said that Cruz has never done that to a human outside of the rescue group.
I don't know if Cruz is the dog for me - I've put all this in God's hands but I know if it wouldn't have been for me knowing my friend was doing some cleaning and our love for Orange Leaf and Butler having a new boo boo, I would never have seen Cruz. While I want Butler to live forever I know he won't and maybe Cruz being in the house will help me truly know when the time comes to let Butler go and help me get through it. Again - right now God is the only one that knows how this will turn out.
I can't believe Wed is the 4th of July!!! One of my three most disliked holidays now that Mike is gone (Memorial Day and Labor Day being the other holidays). The evening of July 3rd WDM has it's 4th of July parade so I've asked a couple of gal pals from church if they wouldn't want to come to my house and walk to the end of my block to watch the parade. Not sure what I'm going to do Wednesday but I'm checking out what all is going on in the metro area. I know I want to do something fun during the day to be outside the house for a while.
