Curiously strong

Darby:  "It's so nice being close to you like this, Harry."

Harry:  "Yeah, but next time steal an Altoid

from The One Who Feeds Us, OK?"

{these moments}

these moments. 

a friday ritual.

photos - no words - capturing moments from the past week. 

simple, extraordinary, (or ordinary) moments.  

moments I want to pause, savor and remember.

inspired by Soulemama

 

Maklng the most of what she has

Before you go any further, you have to promise to look past all the piled up junk in these photos taken in the junk-yard side of our yard. I normally wouldn't be taking photos over there -- and the yard normally wouldn't be quite this messy -- but Glenn is building a gate to replace the one that normally hides this part of the yard and until the new gate is in place, our junk-yard is out there for all the world to see.

And, for the dogs to play around in.  

Darby has turned the area into her own agility course

In this photo she has just run at breakneck speed from behind me (the photographer) around the giant pile of firewood at the end of the table and is running between the stack of firewood and the wall,

out between the end of the stack of firewood and the old lawn mower,

under the table, 

past Pumpkin and through the gate opening into the main backyard,

and up onto the wall.

Here, on another run, she is about to jump over the tangle of garden hose, but at the last moment she decides to run around it instead. 

Here's a photo of her next to the pile of hose.  She jumps clear over the hose -- at the widest point!  I've just never managed to get a photo of her doing it, darn it!

But, I did manage to catch this shot of her jumping up onto the wall:

Looks to me like she is going to miss the wall, but she nails it!

It seems this dog-girl of mine is a fool for agility and if her lazy ol' mother won't drag out the agility equipment often enough, she'll just make the most of what she has! 

One Word Wednesday

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* A web address is one word, right?

Dinner Partners

Last Thursday night, Darby developed a gastrointestinal problem that sent us out to the backyard every two hours all night long.  Bless her, she managed to wake me up and hold it until she was outside, every time.

This is the FIRST time either of these dogs has had diarrhea but I remembered reading to switch an ailing dog to a bland diet so, first thing Friday morning I boiled some rice and some lean hamburger and fed her.  I called the vet who said to continue feeding her the bland diet, bring her in on Monday if she isn't any better and take her to the emergency clinic if she gets worse.  I took the day off so I could keep an eye on her (and catch up on the sleep I lost the night before!)

At first, Darby ate the beef and rice with gusto, but by Sunday morning she wasn't having anything to do with the rice.  She meticulously picked through the bowl, eating the beef and dropping the grains of rice over the side where Harry was waiting to scarf them up!

I couldn't believe my eyes so I grabbed my camera.  Darby letting a creature other than a human near her food bowl and a cat eating rice!

Darby acted fine all weekend, but the diarrhea didn't stop and on Sunday evening she threw up (on the carpeted landing, of course, not on the wood floor downstairs!)  So we made trip to the emergency clinic where she spent a very expensive night.  They took an X-ray that was "un-remarkable" but wouldn't 100% rule out a blockage caused by something she ate because some things like cloth don't show up on X-rays.  They hydrated her and gave her an anti-nausea med and an antibiotic and kept her for observation.

Yesterday morning, after she ate two small meals at the clinic, they released her with instructions to watch her, continue the bland diet for a couple of days and give her an antibiotic twice a day for the next several days.

I'm happy to report that her bowel function is nearly back to normal this morning.  I'm mashing the rice together with whatever protein I'm giving, but she still isn't eating the grains of rice if she can help it!  This is surely something for the record book -- finally! A food a Corgi won't eat!