Sleeping.

I don't know if it's smart or not but lately she sleeps all kind of weird hours so sometimes I have to go wake her up around 5pm so she doesn't want to stay up until 9pm. One time this is what I found. the flash didn't even phase her.

-Btotheeard

arghhh

Oi,
So this week has been a disaster. T woke up with a strange red mark on her leg and went to the doctor. Turns out it is A-typical ringworm. We have no idea where she got it from. We checked the dogs and found a red mark on Popo's leg. We took him into the vet and the vet said it's not ringworm but we can charge you $300 to find out what it is! We declined his offer and asked for a simple skin cream (still $60). Upon returning home we went to a pet store to purchase an E collar for popo since he is a notorious licker and the cream isn't good for him to ingest. We put on the E-collar and Z proceeded to torture him.




Popo was shaking and freaking out so we tried to give him some alone time to work out his issues with the collar.



He just stood there and shook for 10 minutes. Since that wasn't working we thought we'll just put the stuff on and leave the collar on until the stuff dries. A "lets get this over with" approach. T picked him up and he FLIPPED OUT. We put the cream on and put him down only to find blood drops all over the floor, and T's arm. T looked herself over and it wasn't her. We took a second to look over popo and discovered he had ripped out a dewclaw. (picture for those of you who may not know what that is.)


This is the actual separated dewclaw from popo.




We tried to stop the bleeding but it wouldn't stop. So we took him to the vet as quickly as we could and the vet ended up cauterizing it on the spot. Now popo looks like this.



Needless to say it has been an eventful Saturday to cap off an eventful (read hot, sticky, awful) week. It was 105 and humid on Thursday which isn't that big a deal but the power kept going out and Z didn't take a nap that day so the house was 87 and sticky and she cried for hours straight.

This ends the post.

I'm going to bed.

-

mmmm

In an effort to be more like my pontificating fellow so cal uncle (and make you east-coasters jealous of my ability to purchase cheap and plentiful tri-tipped cuts of beef.) I've again had people over and again grilled up a tri- tip which pleased crowds from here to Camarillo. Then children made merry in wading pools and sprinklers in the 100 degree heat, adults squirted each other with various water devices and men talked of mountains and deserts and various once and future destinations. No pictures were taken. This concludes this weeks probably ignored blog post.

-beard

The 4th

Howdy ya'll,
We celebrated the 4th like good wholesome Americans should; we cooked pig and ate, sat around, went to the beach, and drove miles and miles in traffic.

Z got some rockin shades and partied on the beach.




She also has moved up to the forward facing car seat. A big improvement in scenery for Z has led to a big increase in sanity for the beard and the sweet smeller.



The beard wishes to apologize for the terrible quality of his images this week. He forgot the fully charged camera when we set out to the OC so these were taken on a "vintage" Camera phone. He's ashamed.

the spoil-me-rottens were super gracious and nice to popo and I. It was a fun weekend!

_SAM_--__