Update

Wow, looking back on my blog, I see it is all about KD.  Yeah, she's pretty much taken up our lives these past 3 weeks since her incident.  What have I done in between?  Well, not much.  Contributed some stuff to a yard sale that my in-laws had at their house last weekend.  That was fun actually and made more money than I thought I would.  Today I am going to get a pedicure done with my friend and then we are going to the Cheesecake Factory!  My father-in-law is going to babysit KD while I'm gone.  And as far as the update on KD's progress; her toe is pretty much healed, she's walking just fine, but she keeps taking off her wrap when she is by herself causing new wounds from nawing at the bandage.  I feel like we take one step forward and two steps back.  It's like, just when things are going well, she has to do something else to herself! 

This is supposed to be the last weekend of summer weather, so I hope you all enjoy it and do something fun.

stir crazy

We have finally let KD out of her kennel as long as we are watching her and making sure she doesn't get up and run around.  She was just getting too stir crazy in her kennel.  In this picture, she is wearing a sock on her foot because she kept licking at the shaved part of her skin where they had the iv.

Cotton Candy?

This is what the sky looked like early this morning.

Plastic

I know some of you don't like or watch Oprah, but I do watch most of her shows. She did a show earlier this year on the use of plastic and it's impact on marine life. It has forever haunted me since the day I watched it and it makes me so, so aware of using plastic. I have not stopped thinking about this ever since and it makes me think twice whenever I go into a grocery store. It definitely had a huge impact on me. I had no idea what it was doing to our ocean and to marine life.

Knowing that we are contributing to this and can do something about it is HUGE. This is an educational show. I encourage you to use reusable bags when grocery shopping and to cut down on plastic overall. And please recycle your plastic bags at selected grocery stores that take them. (This is not to say that I have stopped using plastic completely, it's hard to do that when most products we buy are plastic, but I have definitely cut back). Here is a link if you're interested. The use of plastic.

Broken Dog

On Wednesday morning, KD dislocated and fractured her toe going up the stairs in our house. Here she is just back from the vet after being under anesthesia. She has a splint on her toe and a metal rod on the back of the leg and it's wrapped with an ace bandage.

Here she is in the kennel we borrowed. She took quite well to the kennel. This was our biggest worry, not knowing how she would react to being in a kennel. But she is liking it, so we might have to find a used one on Craig's List. She will be kennel-bound for at least 2 weeks and will have weekly visits to the vet for 6-8 weeks to check her bandage and replace the splint if necessary.

coffee

Coffee. I LOVE it, it's a lifesaver. It's one of the best inventions (or is it a discovery?) I hope you love it as much as I do. Here's a tip that I learned from my sis: If you like cream in your coffee, pour the cream in your cup first, then pour the coffee and you will never need a spoon for stirring!