Doped Up Dog!

I guess I should post something since I'm here at home on Spring Break but truly I don't have anything to post about.  Things at the homestead have been calm and relaxing with nothing exciting going on.  Probably a good thing because whenever something comes up to post about, it's something negative like a broken car, fence or dog.  I should count my lucky stars that my life is at a low excitement level. 

What have I been doing on my break since getting home from Columbus?  Well, yesterday was a venture at the vet with Bubba.  Don't worry just a check up.  I tranqed him up prior to going and it did seem to help but he was still nervous as a...whore in church.  When we got into the exam room, he kept weaving in, around, and under the chairs.  Panting, whining, freaking out...poor guy.  Luckily, he only had to get two shots which didn't bother him.  What really gets him and makes him lose his marbles is having blood drawn (didn't have to do that since they did it at surgery) and getting probed in the biscuits.  Since I brought a poop sample, however, this wasn't needed.  All in all, he had a pretty uneventful visit.  His ears are starting to get yucky again so the doc put him on a histamine, gave him a steroid shot and also gave a prescription of prednisone to be used on an "as needed" basis. 

Bubba and I were home by 10 AM and after taking Sami on a two-mile walk, I brought all my sewing stuff downstairs and proceeded to sew pieces for my quilt together.  Out of the 90 squares that I'm piecing together, (7 different colors/patterns) I got about 60 done. 

Funny and sad, after being home for a couple hours after the vet, I looked over at Bubba and couldn't see his eyeballs.  He was as doped as doped can be.  His third eyelid had moved up over his poor little eyes and he stumbled around like a drunk.  I took him out front on his leash (didn't want him going down then up the deck steps in that condition) and he just sort of fell over in the front yard.  Poor guy.  He's back to normal now, thank God.  I think next time when he has to go to the vet (supposed to be every 6 months now to keep an eye on his lumps) instead of giving him a tranq an hour before the visit, I'll give it to him about 3 hours before.  By then, he'll be completely sedate and complacent!

So, today - like I said, I'll be sewing and hanging out.  I need to walk the pups but I'm waiting for the weather to clear a little...and warm up.  Tonight I have a Tastefully Simple party to go to at my neighbors...not sure that I'm too excited about that but whatever...I have good neighbors so it will be fun...I hope. 

And that's it.  It's Friday and the last real day off of Spring Break. Now comes the final "push" at school.  In good news - House Bill 36 (giving Ohio back their 5 snow days...effective this year) is finally on the governor's desk.  He's expected to sign and then we at school will only have 2 days to make up...rather than 4.  They have the ability to extend the school day by an hour to make up the two days but I don't know that we'll do this.  In my estimation, if we extended the day by an hour for two weeks, we would have the two days made up.  Seems like an easy solution but who knows with busing and all that.  Regardless, I'm not complaining.  Would it be nice to be out by June 3?  Yes.  However, even if my last day ended up to be June 9th?  I still have the rest of the summer off.  What do I have to complain about?
K - I'm out...later!