I’ve started to cut my own hair; looks fine to me. I hate going to hair salon so I don’t think I’ll ever go to one again! This is making me VERY happy! I am dying to cut Rob’s hair and he is going to let me.
This week the pups suffered from fire ant bites. Both of them had swelled legs/paws and were limping. And Woody’s left eye was swollen. They did find some relief from Benadryl and after two days or so they both recovered. We are looking into hiring someone to rid our yard of fire ants as we have a lot of them and they only get worse…
We replaced the chicken waterer with a different kind since the old one kept getting gunk in it and algae even right after cleaning. The new one works differently though, and the chickens weren’t paying attention to my “lessons” where I would press on the “nipple” to release water flow. So yesterday when I released them from their roosts I kept the door shut to the yard. They were forced to stay in their “run” with the food & water. After just a couple of hours, to our delight, they had figured out how to use it! I stuck around to make sure I could see every hen use it. Mrs. Joe Burrough was last, of course.
Turns out fire ants weren’t the only trouble for the pups this week. Last night at about bedtime I was checking on the pups in the front yard and Woody was laying in the grass which was all bloody! He had blood on his legs and stuff so I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. So we put him in the bathtub with a little water and found a cut on one leg which was bleeding a lot. Meanwhile, Woody was traumatized from the bath situation (not the cut itself) as Stony watched the “emergency”. We managed to apply some hydrogen peroxide and wrap in gauze/first aid tape. So here it was bedtime, and we’re all kind of wound up. Rob sat with Woody for awhile to calm him down (he had Woody on his chest the other evening for an hour or so to calm him down then too. This is one of Rob’s skills).
The great part is that Woody didn’t take off the bandages all night! I removed them today and wound looks pretty good (not bleeding anyway). We have no idea what caused the injury however. Agree, that’s troubling.
At this rate, wondering if we’ll end up at the vet for some reason before their check-up which is in only 5 days :)
Rob’s been staining the deck. It’s a LOT of deck. He’s doing it in chunks in mornings before it gets too hot.
We have seen the roadrunner several times in the backyard and one morning I saw TWO of them! Did I mention that one time I saw one on the deck with a lizard hanging from its beak?
We have let the pups loose in the back a few times now. Just getting off the deck to the grass has been a big stress-bomb for them. Stairs are brand new so instead they usually take the leap (2 steps worth). Then both have them have started to run toward chickens. Once I physically stopped Stony, another time I let him go and Woody stopped chasing as chicken rounded the corner. Not yet clear how this dynamic will play out.
Haven’t yet captured a couple of things on camera: when pups do racetrack around living room including between the legs of narrow end table which always has a beverage on it. Or when pups are looking out back window and the flowers are so close that they try to grab them in their mouth.
Below are a couple of video links and then gallery of images.
