The weather has been gorgeous lately. I’m positive all the really cold stuff is gone because last week I saw a mosquito and a butterfly, multiple times. What kind of meanie would Mother Nature be to smack us with more cold and kill the pretty butterfly? With the warmer weather comes thoughts of summer knits. I’ve been thinking of Ribby Shell thoughts, but I’m also tempted by the yellow tank in the latest Knit Simple. The Knit Simple tank calls for Classic Elite Star. Me and wavy yarns don’t get along so I’d have to do some substituting there. I should really concentrate on finishing the blanket first though. If I start something else, that thing will never get done. I know myself too well.
Around 2 weeks ago, Bella became extremely interested in her left hind foot. At first I thought she was just doing her normal licky thing. The dog isn’t happy unless she’s licking something, anything, usually me, ick. But this was going beyond her normal obsession with all things lickable. This wasn’t a simple giving the foot a bath lick. It looked like she wasn’t going to be happy until she ate the foot right off her leg. On closer inspection, one of the little pads was red and looked like it had 2 little puncture wounds. Of course, you take the dog to the vet and those disappear and the foot looks almost normal but not normal enough to not treat it. They gave her 10 days of a mild antibiotic, thinking she’d stepped on something and maybe a splinter or some such was still in there and gotten infected. I took her back to the vet last week because she came in one morning and her foot was bleeding. Again, by the time I get her to the vet, they can’t see where it would be bleeding from. “Finish the meds because it can take up to 14 days for things to clear up.” The meds are finished, it’s been 14 days, and now we have this:
A white lump with a rough dark spot. Between that little pad and the bottom one, there’s some dark spots that looks like dried blood, but it’s not. I don’t think this qualifies as a DeFeets of Cuteness so we’ll be making another trip to the vet today.
Because I’m 5, I couldn’t resist picking up this little $1 pot at Target. Look Ma, I’m going to grow a 10 foot Sunflower in a 2 inch pot. I also bought one to grow Forget Me Nots.
March 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Good luck with that sunflower.. hee hee!
March 9th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Yikes, hope Bella’s foot is ok. They can step on all kind of stuff and have problems. And sometimes foot-licking can get WAY out of hand with dogs.
March 9th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Hope Bella’s foot gets sorted out soon. Buy her a lollipop?
I liked the yellow tank too. And the pink one. My want list now needs to be rolled up like a roll of toilet paper, I think.
Oh, and I loved the little sheepy thing. Everyone had a play with it at some stage last night. Well, except Twinkie, but she’s the most mature person around here.
March 9th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I’ll bring my Ribby Shell tomorrow so you can look at the pattern and see if you want to knit it. (I think I was supposed to do that earlier and forgot. Sorry about that!)
I hope you got some more definite news on Bella’s paw. The bump looks kind of like the one we had removed from Phoebe’s paw.