Focus

Border Collies have the best ability to focus.

No matter what is sitting on their head.

Autumn

I waited almost too long to get some pictures of the beautiful colors this time of year.

I did manage to snap a couple pictures this morning on the way to work.

Some of the trees have completely changed colors already and some haven't. But after the bad storms yesterday, being under a high wind advisory all day, plus being under a tornado warning most of the evening and the heavy rains, most of the trees look like this now.

However, you can still see the lovely Fall colors of their leaves.

The trees behind my shop don't look good enough to take pictures of, but as you can see the poison ivy is still doing very well.

Crue and House updates

First Crue. He seems to be doing just fine. Can't keep him confined! I'm not letting him run around much, but the leash thing was more dangerous than running free. He is still favoring his leg just the slightest bit, but its getting better. His eye looks good and I'll be taking him to my own vet in a few days for a recheck and to get the sutures removed. He is enjoying all the extra attention and treats and is getting quite good at taking his meds and letting me put in the eye ointment. I think I can stop worrying now.


Now for the house update. We have taken out the ceiling and I'm still getting the rest of the remants of drywall and nails off the ceiling. I'm almost done with that, then we can start putting the ceiling back up.

We've also finished insulating the living room.

I know it doesn't look like much after all this time, but we're finally on the home stretch! The demolition part is finally over and now we are beginning to rebuild. Good thing I got this place for a song or it would not have been worth it. As it is my mortgage payment is smaller than a car payment so I should be able to get it paid off fairly fast. Now if the dogs can just stay healthy and my truck can keep running  (its across the street getting 2 new tires that are costing me more than my mortgage payment) and nothing else goes wrong, I can get my house finished and move in!

Poor Crue

Crue got hurt yesterday. He somehow managed to run into the side of our lawnmower/dump run trailer.

The offending trailer

The thing that makes me mad is that trailer has been sitting there for months and just the other day I was thinking maybe it should be moved before one of the dogs accidentally runs into it. I should learn to act when these thoughts go through my head as they seem to inevitably happen once I've thought them.

I had him at the ER vet within 15 minutes. He nicked the third eyelid, scraped the cornea and ripped open the skin at the corner of the eye. The vet said it was very deep and into the tissue under the skin. Can't remember what he called it. They anesthetized him and sutured it up. He was also limping really bad but we couldn't find the reason for that. The vet thinks he bumped his shoulder at the same time he cut his eye. He was still a bit wobbly from the anaesthesia when I brought him home but immediately went back to the ball he was playing with when he got hurt.

He's full of energy today having spent the past 24 hours either crated or on a leash. He should heal up with no lasting vision problems. I certainly hope so. I hate when my dogs get sick or hurt.

My poor boy :(